Newsletter 1/2009: The Chair of CEUC wishes you a happy 2009

(January 2009)

Dear members of CEUC,
Dear friends and colleagues

On behalf of the board of CEUC, I wish you a happy 2009 - may it be a time full of inspiration, encouragement and enriching encounters.

I would like to inform you quickly about what has been done by and in our organisation in the last few months:

Registration for the conference from June 1 to June 6, 2009 in Kristiansand / Norway is open!
On www.ceuc09.org you find all necessary information. To make sure to be part of a marvellous conference, we encourage you to register in the next weeks and to book your trips soon.

On July 2, 2008 at the Global Conference in Tampere, we gathered for the General Assembly 2008. Attached to this message, you find the minutes.

On November 1 and November 2, 2008, the board had its meeting at the location of the next conference in Kristiansand, together with the Norwegian local host committee. The agenda of the General Assembly 2009 has been outlined and we discussed scenarios for the conference 2010.
A bid to host the conference was made from UK chaplains but has not been confirmed yet. In the next weeks the course for the conference 2010 will be set.

Our website www.ceuc.org has been refreshed. We are working on a solution to make the website a more interactive tool for the CEUC members; first steps in this direction have been done.

We, the board of CEUC, would like to thank every one of you for your continuous support. We appreciate the friendship that exists among the European chaplains and we are looking forward to enhancing the solidarity and the exchange of good practices throughout Europe, across National and denominational boundaries. May God bless all the work in our chaplaincies and at our universities, that we may be true witnesses of his love.

With my sincere best wishes,

Markus Anker, Chair of the Board

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Pfr. Markus Anker
Evang.-ref. Universitätspfarramt
Universität St. Gallen
Steinbockstrasse 1,
CH-9010 St. Gallen
Phone +41 (0)71 744 71 77
Fax +41 (0)71 244 18 31

markus.anker@unisg.ch
www.treffpunkt-steinbock.ch