Mission:1 energizes outreach and advocacy throughout UCC November 14, 2011
After 11 days of red wagons filling up with healthy food, thousands of letters sent to Congress, sermons delivered by cereal boxes and purple hippos, 11-foot rocket ships and peace signs made of cans of food, pastors evicted from pulpits due to growing mounds of food donations, a pumpkin patch of bags filled with food, and monetary donations pouring in, Mission:1 ended successfully Friday, Nov. 11.
UCC to install three national officers Sunday November 11, 2011
The Rev. J. Bennett Guess, the Rev. James Moos and Mr. W. Mark Clark will be installed as members of the five-person United Church of Christ Collegium of Officers at Pilgrim UCC in Cleveland on Sunday, Nov. 13, at 2 p.m.
South Portland UCC encourages members to 'Think and Act' for Mission:1 November 10, 2011
What's a congregation that is known for its generosity to do during Mission:1? For the members of First Congregational UCC of South Portland, Maine, it means delving into food justice advocacy issues and acting for change.
Mission:1 helps Long Island's Mt. Sinai UCC continue its caring ways November 9, 2011
In a tradition that goes back as far as anyone at the church can remember, Mt. Sinai UCC on New York's Long Island has been collecting Thanksgiving food bags to share with the Island Heart food pantry. But this year, Mission:1 has given the long tradition added momentum.
Tenets of Mission:1 loom large in future of Mass. UCC church November 8, 2011
With Mission:1 goals toppling like bowling pins across UCC churches nationwide, Trinitarian Congregational UCC in Concord, Mass., is already looking to sustain the war on hunger into the future.
Somerset, Pa., church launches Mission:1 with $10,000 gift for E. Africa famine relief November 4, 2011
The church announced on Nov. 1 –– the first day of the UCC’s comprehensive campaign against hunger –– that it is giving $10,000 to famine relief in East Africa. A severe drought has ruined crops and killed livestock, leaving more than 13 million people across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia without food.
UCC Mission:1 rallying cry: 'Get it on the bus!' November 2, 2011
Get to the bus, and bring enough to stuff.
That’s the Mission:1 mantra in for at least two UCC churches in Michigan and New Jersey.
UCC national staff sends Sept. 11 ribbons of hope, peace to New York City September 8, 2011
Containing handwritten prayers of hope and peace, color-filled ribbons were on display in the Amistad Chapel today as UCC national staff paused during its weekly worship service in the Church House to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
