The United Church of Christ will celebrate UCC Women’s Week, observed from March 3 to 9, with opportunities and resources for worship, reflection and participation in global advocacy. Every March, UCC Women’s Week kicks off Women’s History Month and coincides with International Women’s Day. This year, UCC leaders are offering fresh perspectives, liturgy and a
published on Feb 27, 2024 April is Earth Month, and for congregations, it can be a great time to further discern how to best answer our first calling as Christians which is the caretaking of God’s creation. Form a plan for making the most of April. Check out this suggested course of action: An Art
Euchre night at the Wells house was so much fun tonight! Great food and great laughs! Can’t wait for the next one! Source
On Ash Wednesday, Feb. 14, in Lafayette Park near the White House, national Christian organizations and peacemakers, including the United Church of Christ, launched a weekly Lenten ceasefire campaign. It started with a Catholic Mass followed by an ecumenical public witness, calling attention to and in mourning for the tens of thousands of lives that
More than 500 olivewood hearts accompanied by a postcard, like the one pictured, were delivered to congressional offices. Valentine’s Day found members of several Washington, D.C.-area United Church of Christ congregations participating in the delivery of over 500 olivewood hearts — each representing one beating heart of the nearly 12,000 Palestinian children killed in Gaza
“A great cloud of witnesses” gathered for a United Church of Christ commemoration of Black History Month this week. At the Feb. 14 Black History virtual gathering, “Unsung Heroes of the Environmental Justice Movement,” the Rev. Brooks Berndt, co-host and UCC minister for environmental justice, introduced the famous passage from Hebrews 12 as one that
On Ash Wednesday, Feb. 14, a mass shooting after Kansas City’s Super Bowl celebration took the life of one person and wounded more than 20 others. Meanwhile, political discourse and policy debate in the United States put at risk migrants and asylum seekers at the southern border. In other parts of the world, war and violence continue to escalate,
February is Black History Month. Over the course of these 28/29 days, it is my annual practice to intentionally learn something new, expand my knowledge base regarding my ancestors, including, but not solely focused upon, America’s darkest chapter, it’s original sin: chattel slavery and the long history of racial injustice. Over the weekend, my husband
