Look for a meeting registration form and information about hotel reservations on Wednesday, 15 February.

The National Executive Committee will meet beginning at 0830 on Tuesday, 17 April.  Other participants should plan to arrive in time to register on Tuesday afternoon and participate in a Welcome Reception early Tuesday evening.

Other activities will include a keynote speaker on “Moral Injuries During War,” annual awards, and a briefing on the mission of the newly formed Chaplains Alliance.

Look forward to assistance with recording your story for the Chaplains “213 by 2-03-13″ Campaign in the Library of Congress Veterans History Project.

For those interested, Fiesta San Antonio 2012 begins on Thursday, 19 April and continues for ten days.

As you pray for all of those wounded in war, please remember those who suffer moral injuries – which can be as profound in consequence as physical and mental injuries.

One significant revision is to revise the term of office for the President and Vice President from two years to three years.  This will align these terms of office with those of the Secretary, Treasurer, National Committee members, and Trustees which are now three years.

Other revisions involve “housekeeping” actions such as changing the term “Executive Committee” to “National Executive Committee” throughout the to the text of the Constitution; announcement of the annual membership meeting 60 days prior vice 30 days prior; and additional responsibility of the National Executive Committee to provide annual guidance to the President and Executive Director.

These revisions will be presented to the first session of the membership meeting on 4 May 2011.  All MCA Life Members and Annual Members in good standing present during this meeting are eligible to vote on the proposed actions.

Reserve your room now at the Crowne Plaza Hampton Marina Hotel.

PLEASE NOTE! 

Due to funding problems encountered because of the potential U. S. Government shut-down, the Crowne Plaza Marina Hotel has extended our room block rate guarantee through 18 April.

Please call the Passkey Reservation Center at 1-888- 233-9527.
The booking code for our joint room block is “VAM.”  Or use the booking link immediately below with the same code.

VA Chaplains & Military Chaplains Association Conference, 2-6 May 2011

Instructions to the Traveler

The room rate is $77.00 [double or single occupancy].  This includes a very nice buffet breakfast.  On a space available basis, the hotel will honor our room rate for two days prior to the main event.  Any days after the conference will be difficult to obtain because of heavy booking for that weekend in May.

Join us for key leader presentations on Warrior Care issues and important updates on benefits and issues that concern all chaplains – whether active military, Veterans Affairs, or retired.

MCA National Executive Committee members and Veterans Affairs Chaplain Field Leadership Council members should arrive on Sunday, 1 May unless they are local commuters.  Both groups will convene early Monday morning.  All other participants should arrive not later than Monday, 2 May.

Registration begins at Noon and continues until 4 PM.  Then join us Monday late afternoon for a Joint Welcome Reception from 4 to 5:30 PM.  We are looking forward to your participation for this third bi-annual joint meeting.

The registration fee in $125.00 for all DVA, MCA, and other registrants. The Emerson Foundation Luncheon on Wednesday, 4 May is $30.00 per meal.  The Awards Banquet on Thursday evening, 5 May is $45.00 per meal.  You are welcome to bring meal guests even if they can’t participate in other parts of the conference.

Go here for important conference information.  Please read before registering.

Go here for the registration form to download and send by surface mail.

Go here for the  event registration form online and make your payment via PayPal.