by Tami Spindler | Nov 3, 2025 | News
Oct 2025 – A Reflection by Rev. Roberto Ochoa “And Jesus said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel of all creation.” (Mark 16:15) In the ten months that I have been serving as Conference Minister for the Iowa Nebraska South Dakota Conferences, I...
by Tami Spindler | Oct 20, 2025 | News
by Rev. Dr. Jessica Margrave Schirm – Senior Pastor (she/her) – Grinnell United Church of Christ – Congregational I have a bit of a candle obsession. I love them. I burn candles every day, all year long. Scented ones for sure – but I love...
by Tami Spindler | Oct 6, 2025 | News
The front cover to the installation service The Red Sea Pedestrians led the worship with contemporary praise songs and hymns for Rev Roberto’s installation service. Pastor Doug Wilkerson, Messiah UCC, Little Eagle singing a hymn in the Lakota language and bringing a...
by Tami Spindler | Sep 29, 2025 | News
A Reflection by Rev Roberto Ochoa, Iowa Nebraska South Dakota Conferences’ Minister God wants us to grow, to know the whole truth and tell it in love—like Christ in everything. We take our lead from Christ, who is the source of everything we do. He keeps us in step...
by Tami Spindler | Sep 22, 2025 | News
Pictured above: Rev. Roberto Ochoa, Rev Bonnie Lipton and the Board of Directors of Mayflower Community In 1950 Rev Dr Royal J. Montgomery, a retired superintendent of the Iowa Conference of Congregational-Christian Churches (precursor of the Iowa Conference of the...
by Tami Spindler | Sep 15, 2025 | News
A reflection by Rev Roberto Ochoa, Conference Minister, Iowa Nebraska South Dakota Conferences of the United Church of Christ. But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies; do good to those who hate you; bless those who curse you; pray for those who mistreat...
by Tami Spindler | Sep 15, 2025 | News
By: Rev. Dr. Jessica Margrave Schirm – Senior Pastor (she/her)Grinnell United Church of Christ – Congregational I know you’ve heard the saying, “Perfection is the enemy of good.” Supposedly it is an old Italian proverb that was brought into the public...
by Tami Spindler | Sep 8, 2025 | News
“I ask not only on behalf of these but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that...
