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Looking For a Good Christian Faith Formation Ministry Program for Adults?
Here it is!
by Rev. Deborah Payden, Lay Academy Director 

 

Rev. Deborah Payden
Rev. Deborah Payden, Lay Academy Director

Personal and communal growth in discipleship and faith practices energize and empower individuals and church communities for effective ministry and mission in our world. Our Wisconsin Conference Lay Academy offers an exciting and provocative opportunity for adult learning!

 

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Immanuel UCC Launches Community Meal Program  Neenah, WI

The Wisconsin Conference is proud of the many churches in our Conference who participate in mission work, on both local and global levels. We recently learned through church Pastor Robin Reed that Immanuel UCC in Neenah is responding to the needs of their community through providing free evening meals twice a month.
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Spring Training For Christian Educators
Faith Formation in a Healthy Church
March 24, 2012 - Middleton
baseball2This event is sponsored by the Christian Education Commission and the Partners in Education of the Wisconsin Conference UCC

Churches and families form faith within a structure of relationships. Imagine aspects of the relationships in your family. The relationship aspects might be parental vs child, strong vs weak, assertive vs passive, etc. Church structure has the same characteristics as human relationship and creates the same relational power, same relational balance and imbalance, comfort and discomfort between people. Knowledge of relationships helps you to identify and to claim your strongest roles when developing your Ministry of Christian Education. 
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Be Part of the Narrative Directory of Congregations in Wisconsin UCC  

 

The Historical Committee of the Conference plans to publish A Narrative Directory of Congregations in the Wisconsin Conference of the United Church of Church.  One page will be reserved for each church in the Wisconsin Conference.  This page will include a picture of the outside of each church and its history.  The Committe's target date for distribution is the 50th Anniversary of the Wisconsin Conference in 2012. 
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Using Video On Your Website

From the United Church of Christ Website

Online video is instantly global, searchable, on demand and with viewing stats that are easily measured. Whether you want content for your website, broadcast live worship services, or just show the human side of your congregation, you need to have a presence in the digital world, you need to be using online video.

Creating video for your site - providing a video for your site visitors is a three step process. 
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NYE Update - 212 People Needed and Congratulations to Zach Komes!  

National Youth Event LogoHelp us reach our goal of 212 from Wisconsin Conference in 2012! In the past, the Wisconsin Conference has had between 160 and 200 people attend National Youth Event. In 2012, we are challenged to bring 212 people to NYE. 
 
 
Congrats to Zach Komes! Zach, a high school youth from Bethel-Bethany UCC in Milwaukee, has been selected to be a Youth Keynote Speaker at NYE 2012! Zach has a background in organizing and grassroots activism and has led workshops at other national events. Zach will be leading a workshop at NYE and was selected as a keynote speaker as a result of his application to lead a workshop. Let's see how many Wisconsin youth we can have in the arena cheering Zach on!
 
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"First Responder" Volunteers are Needed For The National Youth Event  

 

If you are planning to attend NYE as a chaperone and you are trained in first aid, EMS, nursing or other health professionals and would be willing to volunteer for 2 hour blocks of time, please contact Lisa Hart at lhart@wcucc.org  

You would be scheduled to help provide first response to medical emergencies and handle minor first aid situations.  Purdue University has a fire department on campus and three med-vac hospitals nearby.  Volunteers will be needed 'round the clock' during the four days of the event. 
UCC Office Support Staff Network MeetingUCCOSSN
 

We are the Office Support Staff from local churches, conferences and national agencies and instrumentalities. We are the supporting hands of the on-going ministries of the United Church of Christ. Join the UCCOSSN at their annual meeting at the United Church of Christ National offices in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday April 12, 2012-Saturday April 14, 2012.  This year's theme will be Silver Linings. 
 
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February 15, 2012

In This Issue
Join the Lay Academy
Immanuel UCC - Neenah
Spring Training for Christian Educators
Historical Committee Project
Using Video on Your Website
Congratulations Zach Komes!
NYE Volunteers Needed
UCCOSSN Annual Meeting
Save The Date
Interim Ministry Training
 


April 17
Grace UCC Wausau
Registration Information Available Soon
 
 
 
 

 


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Annual Meeting 2012
 

 

The Annual Meeting of the Wisconsin Conference will be on  June 8-10, 2012.
 
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