RECON17 update for all staff

[Maria Finkbiner]

Dear regional team,

I hope you have had some rest after SC17. I enjoyed seeing many of you there - and baby Thaddeus surely enjoyed laughing it up with all y'all at regional time. :)

As mentioned at SC17 regional time - registration is still open! We have 120+ students registered at this time.  I recognize that recruiting APA students for RECON is challenging because of the APA conference that is the next weekend. It may be hard for students to choose RECON because of attending APA with more of their friends.  We have just created a coupon code for students attending BOTH APA & RECON17, please have students enter "APA2017" at checkout and they will receive $30 off their registration.
If additional scholarship money would help (for students who want to do both conferences), I have money for this!  (I made a year-end ask for scholarship money, and received at least $1500). 

1. Registration Deadline - January 20 11:59pm

Our deposit amount is $30.  http://www.ivrecon.com 

2. Scholarship Transfer Info needs to be submitted via this form by January 23 so that it can be put into registration and your students can register easily. This is separate from the codes and is for area or campus or regional money that you're using to help students. If you need additional money, contact me!

3. Special Guest RSVP by Jan 23 - If you invited special guests  please fill out this spreadsheet  to let us know if they are coming.

4. RECON17 facebook group for staff and participants. We will be posting some helpful information and hoping to start dialogue over the next few weeks.

FYI - RECON team members will be contacting campus liaisons to offer support in the next weeks.

Praying for the Spirit to work in our region through RECON17,

Sabrina

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INFO FROM PREVIOUS EMAILS:

REGIONAL SCHOLARSHIP CODES?

The following codes are for students who participated in these conferences in the fall. It will provide $30 off the price at registration time (so cost will be $65 until Nov 18, and then $80 until registration closes Jan 20). These codes will stay active until JAN 20.

WJEF

INFOCUS

ENCUENTRO

APA2017

Note: There still needs to be $30 for deposit.  The registration system won't let us waive deposits.

WHAT IF SOME OF MY STUDENTS NEED MORE THAN $30 OR AREN'T ELIGIBLE FOR THESE CODES?

Please remember to talk with your AD about what other funds are available from your area and campus accounts!!!  These codes aren't meant to be a limit at all!  If you and your AD need more help, please email me! I am inviting some of my ministry partners to give specifically to this conference. Some of you may also have ministry partners who would be delighted to give towards student scholarships too.

WHAT IS THIS DISCIPLESHIP CYCLE YOU KEEP TALKING ABOUT?

Learn together, come to the conference, and follow through on the action God calls for.  See the attached document, it's also on the website - http://www.ivrecon.com.  This is not a 'unity event' or a conference for us to all feel good about being in the same room together. We want to help equip students to pursue racial justice on campus (and then for life). We have work to do! 

We also don't expect students to be fully formed on topic (none of us are!). That's why the Lord brings us on discipleship cycles. But we expect students to already know that racial injustice is against God's plan, and to be willing to work towards justice and healing.

 

IS THERE AN APPLICATION PROCESS?

No, we should have plenty of room. We are assuming that as students register, the campus liaison or staff has invited them, and that they have attended the appropriate EI conference already.  White students need to have participated in RTTT.  Black and Latinx students who attended InFocus and Encuentro this fall also qualify. Graduating seniors are definitely invited. We have a campus focus, but the content will help them in graduated life too, and there is a seminar about racial justice in church/community partnerships.

a. For your recruitment help, we provided access to the list of all the students in your area who attended our EI conferences in the last 2 years.  We hope that this will help jog your memory of who has been to the different conferences and would be ready to come.  Your AD should already have sent it.
b. Any Native or Pacific Islander students you want to come are welcome, even if they have not attended WJEF (it's much harder to go to). We will be having a breakout for Native students.

c. If you have specific questions about a student that you want to come who doesn't meet the conference requirements, check with your AD who can compile questions and ask me.

ALUMNI
We have room for some recent alumni who meet the qualifications to attend. (I know pushing back a year made it so that the most recent class missed out). We want to make sure the conference stays student/campus focused, so they would need to adapt for themselves how to do the pre-work and how to think through their own application. And also that they wouldn't expect things to be geared towards post-college folk.  Please don't send a blanket invitation to your alumni, but if you have a few in mind that this would be great for, you can invite them (with the caveats above).

Thanks for reading this far, and look forward to seeing all y'all next week.

Sabrina

Sabrina Chan
Associate Regional Director, Pacific Region
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

schan...@gmail.com

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Maria Finkbiner
Pacific Region Operations Manager
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA
707-849-8963