We have mapped out a simple, informal breakfast premiere for any size group, which begins at 8:45 a.m. on September 9, and lasts between 1 ½ - 2 hours. It includes some of the suggestions in the longer “How-to-do FAS Day Manual,” which you can find on the Internet at www.come-over.to/FASDAY/manual.htm

Your event should begin promptly at 8:50 a.m., so we suggest you invite your guests for 8:45.  Suggested agenda:

8:50 a.m.    Opening Remarks

8:55 a.m.    Reading of  local  FAS Day proclamation

9:00 a.m.    Reading of ecumenical Invocation (optional)

9:09 a.m.    “Minute of Reflection.” Your group may want to participate in the International Bell Concordance, linking up with others who will be ringing bells, chimes and carillons  nine times at 9:09 a.m. in time zones around the world. Or you may want a poem, prayer, song, or just a minute of simple silence.

9:10 a.m.   Refreshments.  Participants serve themselves a drink and a snack at an informal buffet table, then...

 9:20 a.m.   Video Premiere.  Sit down to watch the new video. (Popcorn optional.)

Following video: brief washroom break.

9:50 a.m.  Presentation.  Informal speaker or speakers plus (optional) brief musical entertainment – such as a local children’s choir or local musician –  OR panel discussion.  Download these Presentation Notes prepared by Teresa Kellerman.

10:30 a.m.  Poem.   Program closes with reading of a brief poem, “The Integrity of Hope,” by Michael Kami, possibly by a birth mother or survivor of FAS. (Optional)