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KANSAS-OKLAHOMA CONFERENCE
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
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Time to renew your subscription to the Award Winning StillSpeaking Magazine
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Oklahoma City University Hosts Social Justice Symposium
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Oklahoma City University will host a symposium on social justice titled "Justice for All: Systemic Approaches to Social Justice" Friday and Saturday, March 8 and 9. The symposium is open to the public and will be held in the Bishop W. Angie Smith Chapel next to N.W. 23rd Street between Kentucky and Blackwelder avenues.
Registration is $75 and includes breakfast, lunch and a banquet March 8, and lunch on March 9. OCU students, faculty and staff may attend free of charge but must register. For more information or to register, contact professor Joe Meinhart at jmeinhart@okcu.edu or (405) 208-5704
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The Make a Difference! Genesis Fund provides seed money for faith-based projects that are innovative or experimental, that represent a new initiative in Christian mission, or that may be deemed controversial. Genesis Fund grants are made for domestic and international projects. Grant proposals may be submitted by UCC local churches, associations, conferences, and national bodies; UCC-related institutions; and overseas/global partner churches.
Next deadline: March 15, 2013.
Grants from the Genesis Fund are made on a biennial basis. Grant applications are received only in odd numbered years. Funding decisions are be made in accordance with the following schedule:
- March 15th Completed applications due in office by 5 p.m. (EST) (this is a firm deadline)
- June-August Genesis Fund Committee Reading Period
- September Genesis Fund Grant Making Meeting
- October 1st Funding Decisions announced and funds released.
Click here for more information!
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Looking for
curriculum,
special projects,
activities and
other resources
for your Vacation Bible School
or your summer camp programs?
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Check out what Global Ministries has to offer in these areas for
Youth and Children. Currently through the "Journey" VBS programs, there are free curricula to download for Colombia, Congo, and India.
In addition there is a wide range of suggested special projects that children and youth will enjoy supporting, along with information on child sponsorship. You also will find creative activities and games for your VBS and summer camp programs.
These also are good ideas throughout the year for Sunday School and special activities with youth and children. Find out more about these exciting resources at Youth and Children.
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At the 2012 annual meeting someone asked a question about race and how the KO Conference might begin to look at the changing demographics and address these questions. Here's a resource to start the conversation. Sacred Conversation on Race Guide
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 Attention: UCC employers, clergy and lay employees, retired clergy and retired lay employees |
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Open enrollment for the UCC Vision Benefits Plan will be available March 1-31, 2013. Coverage is effective at 12:01 a.m. on April 1, 2013 following receipt of a completed enrollment application along with a check for the annual premium.
The Vision Plan is offered on a stand-alone basis, regardless of participation in the UCC (Non-Medicare) Health Plan or UCC Medicare Supplement Plan. The Plan offers access to a nationwide network of eye care providers through VSP. Plan benefits include annual eye exams, prescription glasses or contact lenses as well as discounts on lens options, additional glasses and sunglasses.
Vision coverage may be purchased by:
- Employers for their employees;
- Individual clergy and lay employees serving local churches;
- Retired clergy; and
- Retired lay employees.
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BROWN GRANT FUNDS AVAILABLE - Funds are available, through the Brown Endowment, for continuing education experiences for group and individual clergy (commissioned, licensed and ordained) and for training of bi-vocational ministers. Proposals will be considered in April,
July and November.
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KS-OK WOMEN SPRING CELEBRATION DAY
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"SHARING AN ABIDING HOPE"
(Don't Hide Yours Under Your Outrageous Easter Bonnet!)
ALL KS-OK Women invited to attend -
and KS Disciples Women, too!
Spring Celebration Day on Saturday, MARCH 23rd
Immanuel UCC - Ellinwood, KS
Pre-Register/ RSVP by March 13th...
(wwnanner@gmail.com or 316-706-0263 or 620-564-2448)
Come sign in at 9:30 a.m., crazy spring HAT and all!
$11.00 covers lunch and materials.
Day's program and agenda concludes approx. 2:30 p.m.
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Dear Support Staff of the United Church of Christ,
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 The Illinois Conference invites you to the 2013 Annual Conference of the United Church of Christ Office Support Staff Network, a national organization dedicated to hardworking people supporting the ministries all across the United Church of Christ.
This event will be held April 4-6, 2013 at the Wyndham Hotel in Lisle, Illinois.
This year's theme is "The Sky's the Limit." The Planning Committee has been dedicated to planning a meaningful event that offers our peers much needed care and nurturing on many facets, with the sky as our limitless boundary of opportunity.
Additionally, we have planned time for networking, fellowship and fun, which can be the most important part of the event for some. Many church secretaries work alone in their church offices, and the relationships built during these conferences provide connections to a wealth of additional experience and knowledge from people that are in the very same settings.
Click here for more information and registration.
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Chicago Theological Seminary Spring Worship Conference - April 19 & 20, 2013 --
For those unable to attend the event on-campus, selected portions of the conference will be available via live streaming over the internet.
Headlining the event will be CTS alumnus and Professor of Worship at Garrett Theological Seminary, Dr. Ruth Duck.
Visit our new website for details and registration
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AT GOD'S TABLE:
Food Justice for a
Healthy World
ECUMENICAL ADVOCACY DAYS 2013
Friday, April 5 -
Monday, April 8, 2013
Doubletree Hotel Crystal City, VA Washington, DC
More Information and to register, go to
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*Congregation of First Congregational - Russell, KS
*First Congregational - Stockton KS Rev. Vince Williams & Congregation
*Jeff Keller - President, Kansas Oklahoma Conference
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UCC CALENDAR OF PRAYER
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K-O UCC CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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Link to
the K-0
Calendar
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Mar 23, 2013 K-O Women Spring Celebration Day
9:30 AM - 2:30PM Immanuel UCC - Ellinwood, KS
Apr 19 - 20, 2013 - Brueggemann Lectures 9:00a.m.-12:30 p.m. Host Church: First Christian Church, 220 South Webster, Norman, OK
Apr 20, 2013 - United in Celebration -hosted by an association of
western and central Kansas Oklahoma Conference Churches at
St Peter's UCC in Inman ~~ 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Lunch included. Details to follow.
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We know there is a lot of things going on around the Conference. Let us
know. If you have something you want to share, please send it to us at kofocus@yahoo.com
Additionally, if you have a committee meeting coming up, please let us know.
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K-O INTERIM CONFERENCE MINISTER'S SCHEDULE
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| | Mar 6: First Congregational UCC Search Committee, Manhattan, KS
Mar 7: Kansas City Clergy
Mar 11: Meeting with Cleveland Staff Re Transitions
Mar 13 - 15: Conference Minister and Collegium Retreat,
Henderson, Indiana
Mar 24: Rosedale United Church of Christ, Rosedale, KS
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K-O CHURCHES IN TRANSITION
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Central Congregational UCC, Topeka, KS ~ Rev. Scott Kenefake is interim pastor Carrier Congregational UCC, Carrier, OK ~ Rev. Gordon Epps is interim pastor. First Congregational UCC, Anthony, KS First Congregational UCC, Centralia, KS First Congregational UCC, Goltry, OK ~ Rev. James White is pulpit supply First Congregational UCC, Great Bend, KS ~ Julie Shields is pulpit supply First Congregational UCC, Manhattan, KS ~ Rev. Victor Force is interim pastor First Congregational UCC, McPherson, KS First Congregational UCC, Onaga, KS First Salem UCC, Wichita, KS Open Table UCC, Owasso, OK United Church of Norman, Norman, OK ~ Rev. Warren Jensen is interim pastor Zion UCC, Junction City, KS. ~ Rev. Patty Brown-Barnett is interim pastor |
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CONTACT INFORMATION
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Edith Guffey, Conference Minister
Kansas-Oklahoma Conference
1245 Fabrique
Wichita, KS 67218
800-880-6466
Sara Shaw, Camp Director
1271 South 1050 Road
Council Grove, KS 66846-8520
620-767-5165 (Camp Office)
620-202-0311(Cell)
Nancy A. Wolfe, Conference Communications Coordinator
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