UCC churches in Missouri step up to support bisexual pastor May 18, 2012
He doesn't even play baseball. But pastors of three churches in Saint Clair, Mo., have decided that the Rev. James Semmelroth Darnell plays for the wrong team. The UCC doesn't see it that way, and is stepping up to the plate with support.
For a song, Council for American Indian Ministries youth accelerate bid for NYE May 18, 2012
Selling its recorded music to match scholarship monies funding their trip to National Youth Event 2012, the Council for American Indian Ministries (CAIM) has a song in its heart as it prepares to bring nearly 30 members to the quadrennial event.
New energy fueling UCC Coalition at 40 May 17, 2012
The UCC Coalition for LGBT Concerns is making a significant turn as it celebrates its 40th anniversary and approaches the annual National Gathering June 25-28 at UCC-related Elmhurst (Ill.) College.
Guess to deliver commencement address at Andover Newton Theological School May 2, 2012
The Rev. J. Bennett Guess, executive minister of the UCC's Local Church Ministries and a member of the UCC's five-person Collegium of Officers, will deliver the commencement address for the 2012 graduating class of Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Centre, Mass.
United Church Funds board member takes leading ‘Stand Against Racism' April 26, 2012
Sylvia Ferrell-Jones is a UCC member on a mission, and that mission is the YWCA's "Stand Against Racism," an annual nationwide event held each April that addresses the root causes of racism and encourages conversation across diverse communities.
Michigan church families come together for youth camp April 24, 2012
A cheer went up Saturday morning when the sun finally came out from behind the clouds, shedding its warmth on the 70 volunteers gathered for a work weekend at recently reopened Camp Talahi in Brighton, Mich.
UCC's Mission:1 receives DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial Award April 13, 2012
Mission:1 awarded "Best of Class" in the Public Relations, Advertising Campaign category during the Religion Communicators Council annual conference in Philadelphia.
UCC comes together as one church to aid Kentucky-Indiana tornado victims March 27, 2012
When disasters tear things apart, people rally in large numbers around those affected. For victims of the March 2 tornados that killed 38 people in Indiana and Kentucky, assistance is coming from all directions. Within the UCC and across denominational and geographical parameters, relief efforts are steady and substantial.
