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This year the Education Committee has devoted its time and attention to the following areas:

1 - 1986 Intensive Study Seminars. In cooperation with the Fraternal Relations and Special Projects Committees and with the office staff, the committee has planned and is in the process of implementing a four-day study program focusing on Part II of The Urantia Book at Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois. The next seminars are projected for the summer of 1988.

2 - Study Aids. The committee continues its deliberations on this subject re: need, kind, formation, and dissemination. It has just made available for general use a new brochure of guidelines for small-group leaders; it is also in the process of devising another letter to be mailed to all new readers registered on the mailing list at headquarters, indicating what study aids may be obtained from the central office. Finally, an ad-hoc committee has been formed to pursue this topic on an on-going basis.

3 - Teaching Skills Workshops. The committee is inaugurating a pilot (experimental) program this year at the Intensive Study Seminars to be developed in future years according to need and interest.

4 - Conference Contacts. The committee has determined to make itself and its members available to assist any groups from the readership requesting help in organizing conferences.

5 - Scholarship Program. The committee has reviewed carefully many proposals and plans to supply monies to individuals otherwise unable to attend and participate in Brotherhood-sponsored events; it has concluded that central administration of such a program at this time would be impractical, unwieldy, and conceivably unfair. Therefore, it has decided to pursue the following course: Through the Bulletin, mailings for committee-sponsored events, and any other means at its disposal, it will encourage the readership at large, societies and study groups to consider the establishment, official or unofficial, of a local scholarship program if such seems desirable to them.

Other subjects under discussion include the formation of a visitor's program (teacher/student/minister) and the creation of a questionnaire to readers to assist the committee in fulfilling its constitutional charge.

The committee extends its heartfelt thanks to guests, Mary Daly, Kevin Goodman, Polly Friedman, Pat Mundelius, and Ralph and Betty Zehr, for wisdom and effort freely given to the concerns of the committee and to all others who have contributed so much to its work. The members, John Andrews, Helen Carlson, Marilyn Hauck, Joycee Henrion, Marjorie Reed, and I also wish to express gratitude to the General Council for its support and for the opportunity it has provided us to be of service.

Respectfully submitted, Lynn Kulieke