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PATHWAYS Theological Education Upcoming Courses
PATHWAYS Theological Education Upcoming Courses

PATHWAYS Fall 2025 schedule, six-week courses

  • What is the Bible? (Dickinson/MBS)                         9/17/2025

  • Professional Boundaries and Ministerial Self-Care   9/17/2025

  • New Testament Hermeneutics                                   10/8/2025

  • Practicing Our Faith in the Public Square                  10/8/2025

  • Living the Heart of Progressive Christian Theology 10/8/2025

  • Ecological Theology                                                  10/8/2025

  • Preaching Liberation Theology                                  10/8/2025

  • Introduction to Spiritual Health (Pastoral Care)        10/15/2025

 

Go to the PATHWAYS website to learn more and to apply.

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Faith In Action Blog
Applications Open for Global HOPE: Migration, Immigration, Refugee and Asylee (MIRA) Unified Grant  
Applications Open for Global HOPE: Migration, Immigration, Refugee and Asylee (MIRA) Unified Grant  

The Global HOPE Office offers three grants through its Refugee and Migration Services ministry that are intended to encourage local UCC congregations, associations, conferences and covenanted ministries to engage in ministry to migrants, immigrants, refugees and asylees in their midst.

The goal of this program is to nurture a deeper understanding and care for the most vulnerable in our local contexts. We encourage participating churches to partner with other organizations in their local contexts who are engaged in similar work. We also encourage program participants to think long-term about how they might raise awareness to address systemic injustices present in immigration policy or consider how they might more completely live into a new understanding of what it means to love our neighbor.

Applications are open!

Contact Megan Bergert (bergertm@ucc.org) with any questions.

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Church News & Events
Jottings 9/8/2025
Church News
Jottings 9/8/2025
Church News

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!)

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.

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.

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