Lunch & Learn: What does accessibility mean for churches?
Oct. 17, 12:00 to 1:00 PM • Online
Candace Low from the SNEUCC Disability Ministry Team will offer reflections on what accessibility means for churches and suggest practical, achievable actions churches can take to become more accessible in a variety of ways.
Lunch & Learn: Pilgrimage to Shalom: The History and Future of the Partnership with the Pentecostal Church of Chile
Nov. 21, 12:00 to 1:00 PM • Online
For more than 30 years, the historic Massachusetts Conference lived in ecumenical mission partnership with the Pentecostal Church of Chile. This presentation will offer reflections on the meaning of this work and a look forward to new opportunities, including a delegation for pastors and lay leaders in March 2025.
Church Life Cycle & Capacity: A Snapshot of Your Church’s Vitality
Oct. 8, 7:00 to 8:30 PM • Online
This hands-on workshop includes information about church life cycles, opportunities often available at each stage of the life cycle, and the kind of capacity (financial, leadership, health, etc.) needed. This gathering is for church leadership groups.
Organizing for Small Town Churches
Oct. 16, 7:00 to 8:30 PM • Online
Small town churches and rural congregations change the world. This online workshop is a pep-talk to the work you are already doing. It invites an organizing framework on the critical relationships that you have already and offers encouragement for further engagement in service to the world God is inviting us to create, together.
Hospitality and Extravagant Welcome: A Find Hope Now Event
Oct. 23, 6:00 to 8:30 PM • Online
Join us to explore how your congregation can offer hospitality and extravagant welcome to those seeking hope in your community and beyond.
Proclamation Lab: PL4 - Telling the DIGITAL STORY
Nov. 2, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
The Congregational Church of New Canaan, CT
This Project Proclaim lab will focus on how we proclaim the Gospel outside of the pulpit, and on the Internet. Rev. Kearstin Bailey will lead a session inviting digital proclamation and witnessing to the impact and testimony of what can happen when we do this work in creative and compelling ways.
PROCLAMATION LAB: PL5 - Preaching in (Dis)abled Bodies
Nov. 13, 1:00 to 2:00 PM • Online
This Project Proclaim online lab features guest presenter Alicia T. Crosby, who brings wisdom and experience as a disabled person and as a minister, and clear suggestions about how, and what, is preached.
Hospitality and Extravagant Welcome: A Find Hope Now Event
Nov. 19, 6:00 to 8:30 PM • Online
Join us to explore how your congregation can offer hospitality and extravagant welcome to those seeking hope in your community and beyond.
Living Into the Mystery - Worship & Sacraments in the UCC
Oct. 19, 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM • Online
A Faith Formation Leadership Program Class: Discussion will include creating worship experiences that welcome all ages and abilities.
Youth Ministry 101
Nov. 2, 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM • Online
A Faith Formation Leadership Program Class: Explore the nuts and bolts alongside the theological foundations of organizing and implementing youth ministry programs.
2024 Our Whole Lives (OWL) Facilitator Training at Silver Lake
Nov. 8 - 10
Silver Lake Camp & Retreat Center, Sharon, CT
SNEUCC will offer Training for Middle/High School which covers curriculum for two levels; Grades 7-9 and 10-12.
Theories & Practices
Nov. 16, 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM • Online
A Faith Formation Leadership Program Class: How the grounding principles of education, formation, and living in the ways of Jesus can be developed and used to make disciples of all ages.
Animating Antiracism for Faith Formation (Cohort G)
Oct. 21, Nov. 4, Nov. 18, Dec. 2, Dec. 16 • Online
The series includes four, 30-minute video modules which can be viewed independently. After completing each module, participants will also engage in a 1-hour deepening conversation facilitated by leaders who have been trained by Crossroads
Circle Training and Introduction to Restorative Practices
Oct. 26, Oct. 27, Nov. 2 and Nov. 3 - Must attend all • Online
This online-only training will be experiential in nature; with personal story-telling; sharing of values and relationship building as an integral part of the training. Lay leaders are especially encouraged to attend.
Animating Antiracism for Faith Formation (Cohort H)
Nov. 7, Nov. 14, Nov. 21, Dec. 5, Dec. 12 • Online
The series includes four, 30-minute video modules which can be viewed independently. After completing each module, participants will also engage in a 1-hour deepening conversation facilitated by leaders who have been trained by Crossroads
Building Resilience Retreat for Authorized Clergy
Oct. 24, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Rocky Hill Congregational Church, Rocky Hill, CT
Rev. Judith Cooke is a Pastor and Resilience Coach who delights in helping people find the clarity they need that moves them to a life they love.
Racial Justice for Authorized Ministers - Foundations
Oct. 30, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM • Online
Training for Authorized Ministers who have not had racial justice training within the past 3 years.
New to the Conference Gathering for Authorized Ministers
Oct. 31, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
First Congregational Church of Willimantic, CT
Join us for a time of worship, informal and structured fellowship, introduction to Conference teams and resources, lunch and more!
Boundary Awareness Training: Through the Lens of Clergy Wellness
Nov. 12 & 13, 6:30 - 8:30 PM • Online
Through the lens of clergy wellness, authorized ministers will renew their understanding of and develop skills for maintaining boundaries in an ever-shifting ministry landscape.
Racial Justice for Authorized Ministers - Renewal
Dec. 4, 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM • Online
Enacting Racial Justice in Ministry facilitates Authorized Ministers’ reflection on how the power they wield as individuals and with their ministry settings can be utilized for racial justice.
Becoming a Trans-Affirming Church • Online
Oct. 10, Nov. 14, Dev. 5, Jan. 9, Feb. 13, Mar. 13, Apr. 3, 7 to 8:30 PM
This Affinity Group supports pastors and lay leaders working together to lead their congregation in becoming trans-affirming. Leader: Rev. Noah Brewer-Wallin.
Affinity Group for Intentional Interim Ministers • Online
Oct. 24, Dec. 12, Jan. 30, Feb. 20, March 20, April 24
This online Affinity Group offers an opportunity to refresh and enhance practical tools and strategies for managing anxiety, understanding power dynamics, and leading transformative change. Leader: Rev. Chris Hart.
Maintaining Wellness in the Midst of Ministry
Oct. 30: 10 am - 2 pm (onsite in Framingham, MA)
Remaining sessions held online: Nov. 21, Jan. 9, Feb. 27, April 3, & May 1
This Affinity Group for clergy and authorized ministers will focus on adding practices and strategies for wellness/well-being and wholeness that can be put into daily use as the antidote or balm to living in the broader angst of being a church leader in these times.
Ministers of Color Affinity Group
Nov. 19, Jan. 21, March 18, May 27 & June 17, 2:00 to 4:00 PM • Online
This Affinity Group is for those who are a person with one or multiple racialized identities, usually expressed with the shorthand of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous & other People of Color) or the phrase “people of the Global Majority”.
Women's Yoga & Music Spirit Retreat at Silver Lake
Oct. 25 - 27
Silver Lake Camp & Retreat Center, Sharon, CT
Whether you’re a yoga devotee or a novice, a seasoned singer or shy about your voice, we have a special place for you in our circle!
2024 Silver Lake Fall Action Weekend
Nov. 1 - 3
Silver Lake Camp & Retreat Center, Sharon, CT
Catch up with old friends, make new friends, and work hard to prepare YOUR camp & retreat center for the coming season.
ONE DAY Women's Yoga & Music Spirit Retreat at Silver Lake
Nov. 9, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Silver Lake Camp & Retreat Center, Sharon, CT
Whether you’re a yoga devotee or a novice, a seasoned singer or shy about your voice, we have a special place for you in our circle!
Tech Deacons Roundtable • Online
Evening: Oct. 8, 7:00 to 8:00 PM (repeats every other week)
Morning: Oct. 15, 11:00 AM to Noon (repeats every other week)
An arena for churches to support one another by sharing ideas, bringing questions, and identifying new trends and opportunities in digital ministry.
Office Hours: Getting Started with Open & Affirming
Oct. 22, 7:00 to 8:00 PM • Online
Members of the SNEUCC Open & Affirming Task Team are available to answer questions and offer guidance about getting started with the Open & Affirming process.
United Church of Christ National Setting
UCC Webinar: End the Year Strong: Making the Most of Year End Giving
Oct. 23, 7:30 PM • Online
November and December can be the strongest months for giving in charities. The conversation will lift up ideas and messages to promote giving to congregations.
Ecumenical Christian Climate Training
Nov. 16, 11:30 AM to 3:30 PM • Online
The Climate Ambassador Training equips you with the knowledge, hands-on experience, and resources to speak and take action on climate change in your home, neighborhood, church, community, with policymakers, and beyond.
Yale Divinity School
Countercultural: The Important Work that Begins When Church Doesn’t Easily Fit into the Culture
Oct. 15, 12:00 to 1:30 PM • Online
This Yale Divinity School program will explore the practical aspects of being countercultural and what our changed cultural purpose as communities of faith may be.
Social Media Smarts: Helping Youth Use New Media in Positive Ways for Good Mental & Spiritual Health
Nov. 6, 12:00 to 1:30 PM • Online
This webinar helps youth workers, parents, guardians, grandparents, and mentors of youth to realize they don’t have to be a social media guru to help the youth they love navigate the new media landscape well.
Interreligious Eco-Justice Network
Direct Pay Federal Tax Credits: Funding for your Congregation
Oct. 30, 12:00 to 1:00 PM • Online
Join Interreligious Eco-Justice Network (IREJN) to learn about the 30% Direct Pay Federal Rebate program and how you can apply it to a variety of projects, including solar, geothermal heat pumps, and electric vehicles.
Congregational Library & Archives
The Stones Cry Out: Early New England Epitaphs in Context
Oct. 16, 1:00 to 2:00 PM • Online
Join us to learn about how epitaphs give voice to eighteenth-century Congregationalists’ changing attitudes towards dying and death.
Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England
Oct. 23, 1:00 to 2:00 PM • Online
Join us to celebrate the release of Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New England with author Dr. Gloria McCahon Whiting.
Office Hours with the Archivists
Oct. 25, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM • Online
Do you want to ask about best practices for storing your materials? Learn more about which records you need to keep and for how long? Find out what a finding aid is and whether or not you should create one for your church’s records? Join us to learn about these topics and more.
Colonization and the Wampanoag Story: A Virtual Book Talk with Linda Coombs
Oct. 29, 6:00 to 7:00 PM • Online
From its “discovery” by Europeans to the first Thanksgiving, the story of America’s earliest days has been carefully misrepresented. Told from the perspective of the New England Indigenous Nations that these outsiders found when they arrived, Colonization and the Wampanoag Story tells the true story of how America as we know it today began.
Congregational Library & Archives Open House
Nov. 2, 5:00 to 7:00 PM
Congregational Library & Archives, Boston, MA
Join us to celebrate the launch of our new online exhibition, Religion of Revolution: Congregational Voices on Liberty, with an in-person display of materials from Revolutionary America and a special performance by Norumbega Harmony.
