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Scottsdale Congregational United Church of Christ is seeking to hire a part-time Music Director (40 hours/month). We're looking for a pianist with experience in directing small vocal and handbell choirs, and in leading songs and hymns, with talent in several musical genres and the ability to sight-read and improvise. Other duties include hiring and interacting with outside musicians, managing a music budget and working with our Worship Team.
If you are interested, or know someone who could be, please see the full job description HERE.
**Scottsdale Congregational UCC is a progressive church which draws its worship music from many different traditions, and which seeks to convey worship themes in non-traditional ways. We welcome everyone, believing we all are made in God’s image regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental ability, nationality, or economic class.
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J. Clinton McCann, Jr. has been selected as the 2025 Sawitski Memorial Lecturer. The Rev. Dr. McCann, Jr., evangelical professor of biblical interpretation at Eden Theological Seminary, will explore spirituality for justice-seekers and peace makers in a live address on October 11 at 10 a.m. in Fellowship Hall. A panel of clergy and laity will respond. A Q and A segment with the audience will follow.
Dr. McCann is a renowned biblical scholar in both academic and clerical circles. His most recent book is Reading the Psalms Again for the First Time: A Spirituality for Justice-Seekers and Peacemakers.
Virtual links will be available for those unable to attend in-person at the church in Sun City West, AZ.
What’s happening at YOUR church? Tell us about it! Just write up an article and submit it to Wende by Thursday at noon to have it included in the following Monday’s Loop.
Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
Tag SWC and Wende on Facebook and Instagram to get our attention so we can share your posts! We’re @swcucc and Wende is @yeswende.
What’s happening at YOUR church? Tell us about it! Just write up an article and submit it to Wende by Thursday at noon to have it included in the following Monday’s Loop.
Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
Tag SWC and Wende on Facebook and Instagram to get our attention so we can share your posts! We’re @swcucc and Wende is @yeswende.
This year, a person with a huge heart helped us to fulfill our dreams. His name is Leo and he has the heart of Jesus.
Click through to read this inspirational story.
Click through to read this inspirational story.
What’s happening at YOUR church? Tell us about it! Just write up an article and submit it to Wende by Thursday at noon to have it included in the following Monday’s Loop.
Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
Tag SWC and Wende on Facebook and Instagram to get our attention so we can share your posts! We’re @swcucc and Wende is @yeswende.
What’s happening at YOUR church? Tell us about it! Just write up an article and submit it to Wende by Thursday at noon to have it included in the following Monday’s Loop.
Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
Tag SWC and Wende on Facebook and Instagram to get our attention so we can share your posts! We’re @swcucc and Wende is @yeswende.
Now that Desert Palm United Church of Christ, Tempe, AZ is nearly done reading Bishop Mariann Budde's Learning to Be Brave, they're inviting the Southwest Conference to jump with them into their next book: Blessed Minds: Breaking The Silence About Neurodiversity by Sarah Griffith Lund.
Rev. Lund is one of the national leaders of the WISE movement, which seeks to broaden the UCC's welcome by reducing the stigma around mental illness, brain disorders and those experience neurodiversity. Rev. Lund has agreed to Zoom with us for a Q&A after we've read and discussed the book among ourselves, so watch for an announcement this summer about that!
Click through for details and the Zoom link.