Getting Involved at SVES
Put your unique abilities and perspectives to good use!

Membership & Welcoming Team:
The Membership Team welcomes newcomers, invites them to participate in the life of SVES, and supports them as they become part of our community. The committee connects all members to the many opportunities for building relationships, enjoyment, and service. Its purpose is to make the path to an active and engaged membership obvious and gratifying for all and to keep members informed about ways to participate in our community.
The Welcoming Team:
Greets new and returning visitors to SVES.
Ensures each visitor has a name tag, including children
Has a general knowledge of SVES & the AEU, friendly attitude.
Team chair: Penny Weinberg-Uebelhoer
The Membership Team welcomes newcomers, invites them to participate in the life of SVES, and supports them as they become part of our community. The committee connects all members to the many opportunities for building relationships, enjoyment, and service. Its purpose is to make the path to an active and engaged membership obvious and gratifying for all and to keep members informed about ways to participate in our community.
The Welcoming Team:
Greets new and returning visitors to SVES.
Ensures each visitor has a name tag, including children
Has a general knowledge of SVES & the AEU, friendly attitude.
Team chair: Penny Weinberg-Uebelhoer
Join an SVES Ethics Team

Platform & Speaker Team:
Identify and recruit speakers to provide Sunday Platforms that are stimulating and well presented with particular emphasis on ethical issues. Provide members to serve as Platform chairs and Opening Words speakers. Set Platform procedures.
Committee Chair: Scott Franciscus
Identify and recruit speakers to provide Sunday Platforms that are stimulating and well presented with particular emphasis on ethical issues. Provide members to serve as Platform chairs and Opening Words speakers. Set Platform procedures.
Committee Chair: Scott Franciscus

Education Team:
The Education Team helps to develop and promote all of the educational offerings for children and teens.
The curriculum is built to reflect ethical core values. The goal is to provide children with skills and knowledge to help them make ethical choices and learn to respect the inherent worth of every human being. Children are encouraged to respect and learn about themselves and their environment and to examine how their own ideas and actions impact the greater world.
Lessons are developed to aid with the exploration of the Children's Ethical Core Values through books, discussions, reflections, music, and hands-on activities.
It is fundamental to our mission as a multigenerational community to ensure that we have excellent programming for children of all ages. Programming for children and teens is something that attracts individuals and families to the our community.
Education Committee Chair: Jessi Almstead
The Education Team helps to develop and promote all of the educational offerings for children and teens.
The curriculum is built to reflect ethical core values. The goal is to provide children with skills and knowledge to help them make ethical choices and learn to respect the inherent worth of every human being. Children are encouraged to respect and learn about themselves and their environment and to examine how their own ideas and actions impact the greater world.
Lessons are developed to aid with the exploration of the Children's Ethical Core Values through books, discussions, reflections, music, and hands-on activities.
It is fundamental to our mission as a multigenerational community to ensure that we have excellent programming for children of all ages. Programming for children and teens is something that attracts individuals and families to the our community.
Education Committee Chair: Jessi Almstead

Ethical Action Team:
Ethical Action is an expression of our core commitments:
The SVES Ethical Action Team promotes and coordinates actions and events between SVES and our surrounding communities that contribute to building a more humane world. In this way the Ethical Action Committee provides opportunities for the personal ethical growth of our members, and for enhancing the ethical grounding of our public systems and institutions.
Team Chair: Phyllis Marquette
Ethical Action is an expression of our core commitments:
- to honor the worth of all people
- to cultivate relationships
- to build justice
The SVES Ethical Action Team promotes and coordinates actions and events between SVES and our surrounding communities that contribute to building a more humane world. In this way the Ethical Action Committee provides opportunities for the personal ethical growth of our members, and for enhancing the ethical grounding of our public systems and institutions.
Team Chair: Phyllis Marquette
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