Did you know that the Conference has an email group that keeps the communication flowing in the Conference.
Anyone can join: Your local church — friends in the church — others you know around the Conference. Can you help us get more people on this list?
You have two choices if you want to help — send me names and emails and I will send them an invitation or send them the information at the bottom of this message and they ...
Read more...With over a decade in publication The Voice, the newsletter from TUCO, will become a monthly publication! We hope this change will bring with it a higher level of content to the newsletter including notes from the Pastor’s desk, regular updates from each of the church’s ministry committees, and interesting faith-focused articles from you the reader! You can submit an article to be published in The Voice by emailing it to voice@theunitedchurches. org by the 4th Monday of ...
Read more...Each year, on Pentecost Sunday, we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit as a bringer of new life. With the Spirit’s coming, we can know the transforming, redeeming love of God that makes the impossible possible.
On Pentecost Sunday each of our denominations collects a special offering.
The UCC offering, Strengthen the Church, funds new congregations and renews existing ones. It supports programs for youth and young adults and nurtures ...
The Pastor Seeking Committee has completed reviewing over 40 pastor profiles with some still coming in. We have selected about five candidates to take to the next step which is a telephone interview with the committee and review of a sermon from each candidate. The plan is to complete telephone screening interviews by the end of April. Then, we will invite the candidates we are interested in to come for an in person interview sometime in May. After the Pastor ...
Read more...May’s Program Meeting for Black Hills Audubon Society will feature Deb Nickerson who was in South Africa last summer with the Toyota International Teacher Program which selected 24 teachers to travel the country learning about its history, culture, educational system and environmental stewardship projects done by school children in the Cape Town area. Three weeks were spent learning about some of their environmental issues and what is being done to alleviate their adverse impacts.
She will show slides spanning 5 areas ...
Read more...April 15— May 13, 9:00 am, Room 106, 9:00 am
Have you ever wondered what Psalms has to do with us modern folk today?
The next adult education class is a DVD lecture series by Dr. Walter Brueggemann, noted Old Testament theologian and Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. Join this accessible and compelling walk through the lived experience of stability, despair, and joy as recorded in Psalms.
You don’t have to be a bible scholar to enjoy this ...
Read more...For anyone with a passion about keeping the story of the mission work of our church alive and thriving an extraordinary training opportunity is being offered by our brothers and sisters in the Central Pacific Conference on May 17th in Portland. National UCC and Common Global Ministries resource persons Jan Aerie, Xiaoling Zhu and others will lead this experience, along with Bishop Melzar Labuntog, United Church of Christ in the Philippines. The day is being shared with our Disciples of ...
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