December 1st, 2011
Transform your Life – Transform the World
What is the 21st century relationship of the church and world? Across the country, interns reflect together as part of the UCC Young Adult Service Communities (YASC) and Summer Communities of Service (UCC and Alliance of Baptists). Picture yourself among them next year.
UCC Young
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December 1st, 2011 Greetings from the National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Programs. Just in time for the holidays, we wish to share this edition of our e-newsletter Capsules.
Inside Capsules, learn about NCC’s recent congressional briefing on chemical policy, read about a pastor’s quest to educate his congregation about healthy aging, watch our latest webinar on
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December 1st, 2011 Just Geoffrey – a blog
UCC President and General Minister Geoffrey Black stepped into the blogosphere last month. You can subscribe and read his reflections on life with the UCC at:
http://unitedchurchofchrist.blogspot.com/2011/11/worshipful-work-and-wake-up.html
December 1st, 2011 First Congregational UCC, Salem, has called Joanne Swenson as their interim, part-time associate pastor, beginning in November, 2011.
November 30th, 2011
“Atkinson: Pioneer Oregon Educator”
A new book by Donald J. Sevetson, former Conference Minister of the CPC-UCC
Inspired by the Second Great Awakening to become a missionary, Massachusetts native George Henry Atkinson arrived in Oregon City during the summer that Congress established the Oregon Territory. Called by early historians “The Father of Public Education
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November 30th, 2011 Submitted by Jeane Doane
Ted and Susan Huffman served as co-pastors of Wright Congregational UCC in Boise, ID from 1985-1995. They were very active in the Central Pacific Conference, and missed when they left for a new call. Susan and Ted were recently featured in a news article for the Mission 1 hunger work
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November 30th, 2011
Submitted by Kim Marshall
Local Pastors - Please join us in supporting the 6th Annual Washington County Project Homeless Connect. This is an important event that connects our homeless neighbors to needs, services and support, and raises awareness of this issue in our community.
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November 30th, 2011 On Faith: A Conversation on Religion and Politics is a blog of the Washington Post. This afternoon, a post by Josef Kuhn explored the ways churches, synagogues, and mosques are opening their doors in support of the Occupy movement. The UCC is prominent in the article.
Continue reading this article Churches Help Occupy Movement Survive Crackdowns, Winter
November 30th, 2011
Dear UCC Pastors,
I am sending you this initial information about the next journey to the Holy Land planned by a church that has an amazing involvement there. You will have a fantastic trip seeing the holy sites, but also meeting people who are peacemakers on both sides of the wall there.
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November 30th, 2011 Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity. E. C. Zeeman
Tagged to the emails of Mark Schmidt, the architect that designed the Activity Center at Camp Adams.
November 30th, 2011 The title asks, “Is a New World Around the Corner?” The lead article, by Fred Plumer, a fellow UCC minister and director of the Center for Progressive Christianity, restates the question for churches and clergy, “Leaders or Obstructionists?”
Fred acknowledges the activist clergy that spoke out on Civil Rights and Vietnam. He continues, “Clergy learned
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November 30th, 2011
photo by Leah Penn Boris
This December, I’ll be making a number of appearances as St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra. This Saturday, I’ll fly to Boise to meet with the Pilgrim Cove Foundation. On Sunday, Nicholas
will be the children’s sermon at Wright Congregational UCC. The following week, Nicholas will be the preacher at
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November 1st, 2011
‘Mission 1’ is here! The tote board at www.ucc.org just went live this afternoon.
Remember, in addition to collecting food, making donations, and writing letters, we need everyone to be diligent in reporting their activities during the coming 11 days. A “report your efforts” tab is prominently displayed on the M1 tote
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