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Responding to Hurricane Isaias

Bridge Conference Minister Don Remick writes: As of this writing, many are still without power.  So we are reaching out to all the members of our Conference to check in and invite you to check in with each other. 

Some found this storm no more impactful than many others that have come through in the last couple months.  Some will be repairing their homes and lives for some time. To date, we have not heard any substantial impacts to any of our churches.

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Conference Begins Search Process for Regional Staff

The Southern New England Conference has recently posted a number of staff positions to the national UCC website, including six for "Area Conference Missioners" who will work with clergy and churches in specific geographic regions.

"One of the most important features of the new SNEUCC conference is the four-part Vision Statement that guides everything we do. The new Area Conference Missioners role will be central to helping our churches and associations to live into our missional work as we embody our Vision and as such, they will be the primary implementers of the mission throughout the Conference," said Bridge Conference Minister the Rev. Marilyn Kendrix.

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Carrying One’s Faith onto the Public Square: Voting and Faithfulness

Jessica McArdle writes: As people of God, we may well be in the wake of the most tumultuous and I would add, precarious periods in our recent historic memory. Much is at stake. Yet paradoxically the fate of this year’s national election rests on our “being faithful even in little things.”  It is hard to believe, but in 2016 only 77,000 votes ?across three states? decided the election. Given that 10.1 million voters who listed the environment and other progressive concerns as a top priority did not vote in that election, ?imagine the outcome if they had?

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SPOTLIGHT: Taking it To-Go

For over twenty years, Trinity Church of Northborough, MA, hosted a free, full course community meal every Wednesday evening at 6:00 pm in their Fellowship Hall to anybody who was in need of a nutritious meal ... That all changed when the pandemic started and the building was closed to the public.

However, that didn’t stop the members of Trinity from supporting the community’s food needs. In June, the church started offering a drive-through community meal in their parking lot during the same time slot. 

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Upcoming Events

A More Excellent Way: A Faithful Approach to Cultivating Individual Giving

Aug. 6, Aug. 13, 7:00 PM
These webinars will help church leaders build more effective stewardship ministries. (Recordings of previous sessions are available)

'Danger, Will Robinson!' A Stewardship Book Club
Aug. 17
"Stewardship has been kidnapped and is being held hostage by a sinister villain named ‘Paying the Bills.’”  And so begins the Introduction for Ask, Thank, Tell, Improving Stewardship Ministry in Your Congregation, by Charles R. Lane, the next book for our Stewardship Book Discussion Group.


 

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