Kansas UCC prepares for community-wide Mission 4/1 Earth event February 22, 2013
What started out as a simple brainstorming session quickly turned into a plan for a two-day, community-wide event with a keynote address by author and environmental activist Bill McKibben.
Indiana minister’s video project supports LGBT youth February 22, 2013
An Indiana UCC minister's initiative to compile and share videos which support and affirm LGBT youth is really taking off. The Rev. Marie Siroky, who collaborated with other Indiana LGBT advocates to create the “You Have a Purpose Project” on Facebook to post positive messages that support LGBT youth, has already seen 1,000 likes on the page in less than a week.
UCC Disabilities Ministries, Mental Illness Network to host pre-Synod conference February 19, 2013
Alan Johnson, member of the event planning team and chair of the United Church of Christ Mental Illness Network, is confident that the event's workshops and speakers will better equip congregations with the tools to welcome and accommodate to those with disabilities and mental illness.
Mother, daughter highlight on-stage entertainment for UCC’s General Synod 2013 February 15, 2013
Combined performances of mother-daughter social activists and musicians Bernice Johnson Reagon and Toshi Reagon are rare, but they are certainly profound and welcome presentations, as attendees to General Synod this summer will find out.
Five California churches join forces for Mission 4/1 Earth February 14, 2013
Five Fremont-based UCCs are working together to celebrate Mission 4/1 Earth, the UCC's church-wide earth care initiative that begins Easter Monday, April 1.
Craigville Colloquy 2013 focuses on "Christ's Mission in the 21st Century” February 14, 2013
To mark its 30th anniversary, the Craigville Colloquy will encourage participants and presenters to wrestle with the age-old question of mission, outreach and interaction in the world outside the church.
