Liaison Committee Report
July, 2007

The Liaison Committee has had an active and fruitful first year of
function. The following projects have all been initiated and nurtured
along in the last 12 months.

In August of 2006 Robert Burns and I met with the Urantia Foundation
trustees at Silver Springs in order to promote cooperation and explore
collaborative possibilities. The EC subsequently met and socialized
with the Trustees in Boulder in February 2007.

The Fellowship and Foundation have formed a Committee on a Standardized
Reference Text comprised of three participants from each organization.
Work has begun on the project and reports of progress will be made to
the EC and GC as the project unfolds.

The Urantia Community Endowment has been established and initially
funded by a Board of six Directors comprised equally of leaders active
in the Fellowship, Foundation and UAI. The Endowment is affiliated
with the Nevada Community Foundation which administers the assets of many
philanthropic endowments.

Personnel from the Fellowship and Foundation have discussed the
desireability of hosting the Foundation's translations on the
Fellowship's website, thereby allowing a dynamic suite of features to
be added to these texts. David Kantor has developed a proposal for the
Trustees to consider.

The Fellowship and Foundation are in engaged in a productive dialogue
on use of the concentric circles symbol. Regardless of the end result,
the tenor of this interchange is noteworthy for its disciplined and
mutually respectful tone.

Perhaps most encouraging, leaders of all the three primary Urantian
organizations are beginning to meet and communicate with greater
regularity, seeking opportunities for collaborative function. I (and
perhaps Robert Burns) will be attending the USUA conference in Seattle
the week after our SSS. We have happily begun a process of increased
fraternal relations, long overdue, which must be nurtured going
forward.

With thanks for the opportunity to serve,

Marvin Gawryn
Liaison Committee Chair