Conference News

Evaluation for Healthy Ministry Modules

Since 2018, in the Southwest Conference we have offered Boundary Awareness training in a modular format that requires taking the four modules once within a 5-year unified cycle for everyone. The first cycle ended in December 2022, and in January 2023 we began a new unified cycle began.

This is a survey to offer an opportunity for us to receive feedback on this system, and what your experience of the modules were. We obviously want them to be as useful and relevant as they can be to our clergy. This will help us know how to best improve, adapt or maintain good quality in our required boundary training experience. Thank you for giving your input!

Rev. Dr. Barb Doerrer-Peacock

Associate Conference Minister

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Christmas Fund

Christmas Fund

Offering date: December 24, 2023

The Christmas Fund has been caring for active and retired clergy and lay employees of the United Church of Christ for over 100 years, providing emergency grants, supplementation of small annuities and health premiums, and Christmas “Thank You” gift checks each December to our lower-income retirees.

The Christmas Fund for Veterans of the Cross is managed by the Pension Boards. Get information here. Get promotional resources here.

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‘A new thing’: Thompson’s historic installation surrounded by multiple traditions, interfaith partners and joyful noise

‘A new thing’: Thompson’s historic installation surrounded by multiple traditions, interfaith partners and joyful noise

“God is doing a new thing. God is making all things new.” 

If anyone doubted that this was a historic occasion, the Rev. Merlyn Hyde Riley made sure they knew. 

The theme of newness, as part of God’s promise, was woven throughout Hyde Riley’s sermon during the Friday, Oct. 20 installation of the Rev. Karen Georgia Thompson as the United Church of Christ’s 10th General Minister and President. 

The jubilant celebration — featuring a diversity of religious practices, a wide assembly of interfaith dignitaries and powerful, praise-filled performances — was held at Lakewood Congregational Church in Lakewood, Ohio, just a few miles west of the UCC’s headquarters in downtown Cleveland. 

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