Urantia at the Parliament of the World's Religions

I left for Melbourne on November 30th at 6:48 PM, and 26 hours later I arrived at our apartment just blocks away from the convention center where the Parliament is being held. Our Fellowship tribe has secured a three bedroom apartment on the 14th floor with a commanding view of this amazing and beautiful city.

Currently, our apartment is housing Steve Rohrbach, Larry Geis, Buck Weimer, Arlene Weimer, Cristina Seaborn and me. We’ve dubbed ourselves the Urantian God Squad. The apartment has a kitchen which we have stocked well with the intent of cooking most of our meals and eating them communally. We are all settled in now and very comfortable here. In addition, Meredith Tenney is staying in a room on the floor below us and Gard Jameson, Marvin and Francyl Gawryn, and others are staying at the Hilton about a half mile away.

Last night, a local reader, Steve Shanahan, hosted a wonderful party and served us all gourmet traditional Australian food. A good many of the local readers attended along with 12 of us from the US. It was a wonderful event and we discussed our plans and the various outreach efforts going on here, including 4 official presentations by Urantia Book Readers.

The Parliament program contains almost 400 pages of wonderful workshops, lectures, worships, meditations, plenary events, concerts, and more. Melbourne has rolled out the red carpet for the world’s religionists. Larry remarked that it probably takes all of 5 years just for them to create the program.

As of today, Thursday afternoon, we are all registered. Walking through the registration area is like walking through a promenade of world religious cultures. The air is electric with anticipation.