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Planned Giving to Support Ministry and Mission Video Series: A series of 8 videos equips local pastors and leaders with reflections, information, and practical ways to get started on promoting planned giving in congregations. Extravagant Generosity: Annual Campaigns...
See how Harvard UCC used the Lay Led Worship Service!
We are delighted to see photos from Harvard UCC’s “Lay Led Worship Service for a Compassion Driven Congregation”! We appreciate your thanks for the Conferences’ creation of this resource and are so glad to see you using it! The Conference asked all churches to take...
Updates on the Boy Scouts of America from General Counsel Heather Kimmel
A message from Heather Kimmel, General Counsel to the UCC: Over the past several days I’ve received a number of inquiries from both Local Churches and Conferences related to the relationship of Local Churches and the Boy Scouts of America, and the BSA bankruptcy. One...
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Obituaries in the Conferences
2021
Richard Crooks – January 1st, 2021
2020
Dwight Snesrud – December 28th, 2020
Steve Uzzell – December 21st, 2020
Robert Adams – December 18th, 2020
Ramona Brooks – November 19th, 2020
Richard Zulauf – October 16th, 2020
John Clark – October 10th, 2020
Gene Becker – October 7th, 2020
Jan Kline – October 6th, 2020
Bernard Wesley Sayler – September 25th, 2020
Tim Mlsna – September 11th, 2020
Frederick Arthur Moore – September 4th, 2020
Donald Stoebner – August 7th, 2020
Donna Boren – August 6th, 2020
Bob Bromley – May 2nd, 2020
Annabeth McClelland Gay – April 29th, 2020
Kathy Torgersen – April 14th, 2020
Carol Taylor – March 1st, 2020
John O. Gradwohl – February 23rd, 2020
Kathryn Alene Rust – February 13th, 2020
Meghan Powers – January 13th, 2020
2019
Jack Seville Jr. – December 21st, 2019
Judy Bishop – December 17th, 2019
Clip Higgins – November 25th, 2019
Mike Cleeton – November 24th, 2019
Mark Phillip Schowalter – October 29th, 2019
Jerry Tibbs – October 26th, 2019