In the 72 hours since Florence, now a tropical depression, made landfall in the Carolinas, it has not stopped raining somewhere. The deadly storm's flash floods and high winds have brought down power lines, washed out roads, uprooted trees, ripped roofs off buildings and blown out windows. In Beaufort, the fellowship hall of St. Stephens UCC will need major repairs.

More than 100 people from seven Conferences in the United Church of Christ, joined by members of three ecumenical partner Churches, are converging on the border town of Sahuarita, Ariz., for several days of study and service around immigrant justice.

The UCC is calling its congregations, conferences and ecumenical partners to a Week of Prayer for Refugees – especially for those who may not be afforded the opportunity to build a new life in the U.S. because of the government's still shrinking limits on the number of refugees allowed into this country every year.

UCC churches, clergy and congregants are reaching out with hope and in faith to migrants at our borders and immigrants across the country. Many more are asking what they can do to respond to the government policies that detain and separate families. The Southwest Conference UCC, acting with Justice and Local Church Ministries, is calling each member of the denomination to build on that immigrant-welcoming effort this fall as one Church to Keep Families Together.

The National Leadership of the United Church of Christ calls on the people of the denomination's almost 5,000 congregations to take action now to keep migrant families together.

The UCC National Setting is seven months into a new way of functioning, living into a organization re-imagined by a change in the Bylaws, under a General Minister and President and two Executive Ministers.

A Houston chaplain, invited to comfort witnesses and survivors of the deadly shooting at Santa Fe High School, asks a central question facing faith leaders: "How do we be the living instruments of Christ in a world so focused on death?"

Thousands of activists calling for a just world for all people rallied on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol and statehouses around the country on Monday, launching 40 days of action by the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.

A California UCC pastor, supported by his congregation, has joined the American Civil Liberties Union in a lawsuit against the city of Los Alamitos for trying to exempt itself from the state's Sanctuary law.

An investment of more than a quarter million dollars in a dozen spiritual communities around the UCC through New and Renewing Spiritual Communities grants is resourcing inspirational ministries built around love, faith, community, justice and creativity.