CCNC-N Regional News

  CCNC-N News & Updates
August 27, 2015
XPLOR Update

Our XPLOR Residents have arrived! Mel Hurley comes from Ohio. She will be working at Christian Church Homes, with Don Stump as her Mentor, and her host congregation is Lafayette Christian Church. Eula Pagdilao hales from SoCal. She will be working with the Region, Toni Bynum will be her Mentor, and Forest Hill is her host congregation. Rachel Thomson, from Virginia, will be working at Oakland Peace Center & East Bay Housing Organizations with Sandhya Jah as her Mentor, and Mills Grove is her host congregation.

Mel, Eula and Rachel, along with Nancy McKee-Jolda, our region's XPLOR Program Spiritual Companion & Team Coordinator, are part of a national program sponsored by the National Benevolent Association. They, along with the other 21 Residents and 6 Spiritual Companions, had an excellent and intensive week of preparations in St. Louis. The program included workshops and presentations on systemic racism, food insecurity, collaborative decision-making, budget-planning for modest budgets, and Disciples history.  The Residents led us all in meal blessings and evening worship in 5 languages.  There was night frisbie, singing, and lots of laughter.

We encourage you to go to nbacares.org/xplor to see photos of our CCNC-N Residents, and all the Residents, along with their reflections upon their XPLOR experience.  You will be proud of this Disciples program, and excited about the faith and vision of the 24 young adults of 2015-16 XPLOR.

And, you are warmly invited to be part of our CCNC-N welcoming event for Rachel, Eula and Mel,  September 12 at Lafayette CC!   In addition to meeting our Residents, the congregation of First Christian Church San Lorenzo will be honored as the people who funded our CCNC-N XPLOR program from their legacy account.   There will be an informal regional choir, a delicious dinner, and a wonderfully rousing concert by Jim & Jean Strathdee!   For tickets, call LCC at  (925)  283-8304.
Healthy Boundaries Training

A Basic Boundaries Training will be held on Saturday, October 24th at the LaFayette Christian Church (584 Glenside Drive, Lafayette, CA) from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.  This training is for those under care of the Region who are working towards ordination or standing in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) as well as clergy who are new to the Region or have not had Basic Boundary Training (formerly "Boundaries 101") in the last three years.  Among the topics for the day will be: healthy boundary basics, power and vulnerability, boundary violations, dual relationships, sexual boundaries, self-care and social media.   If you need to take this training, please contact the regional office [whatever contact info you prefer] to sign up.  We will need to know how many people are coming in order to have enough materials.  Please arrive on time.  You must be present for the whole training in order to receive credit for taking it.   

Please note: We do not have another training scheduled until  September 2016.
2015 CCNC-N Elders' Conference
Wisdom, Tradition and Ritual
 
October 23-24, 2015
at The Christian Church of Pacific Grove
442 Central Ave.
Pacific Grove, CA

Who is invited? All serving elders of Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) congregations in Northern California-Nevada.

What is the cost? The event is free-of-charge thanks to the Regional Church, the Disciples Seminary Foundation and The Elders of The Christian Church of Pacific Grove. A lunch will be provided on Saturday, October 24.

Where will we stay? All workshops and plenary sessions will be at The Christian Church of Pacific Grove. There are several B&B's and Hotels within walking distance of the church campus.

Learn more ...
North American Youth Event

July 26-30, 2016

Mark your calendar to attend a most magical Disciples of Christ/United Church of Christ Partner Youth Event!

Join 3,000 or more youth from all over the USA & Canada at Walt Disney World's Coronado Springs Resort.

Learn more ...
Dancing into the Divide
Women's Ministries Event

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Upcoming Events in the Region
DateEvent
09/12/2015NAPAD 2015 Fall Celebration
09/25/2015Women's Fall Retreat
10/16/2015
Disciples Men's Retreat
10/23/2015
Elders Retreat
Joys and Concerns
 
Please hold in prayer:
 - Yolanda , whose nephew, Rick Santiago, has been diagnosed with glioblastoma, stage 4 cancer.
 - Myril and Nancy Tougaw, whose sone-in-law, Valentine Balbuena, passed suddenly on 8/20. 

New members can be reported via the CCNC-N Cloud.
Please contact Jim at the Regional Office for details.

We lift up these churches in prayer
For this week:
Sacramento, First Christian Church; Ted Firch, Pastor

For next week:
Sacramento, First Samoan Congregational Christian Church; Salesa Fa'alau, Pastor

Please pray for these churches who are in transition:
BRIM Ministry, Berkeley
First Christian Church, Corning
United Christian Church, Fresno
Lafayette Christian Church, Lafayette
United Christian Church, Livermore
United Congregational Christian Church, Lodi
Sierra Christian Church, Loomis
First Christian Church, Merced
Via Dolorosa Congregational Christian Church, Modesto
First Christian Church, Oakland
Ubuntu Community, Oakland
First Christian Church, Palo Alto
First Christian Church, Porterville
Cottage Way Christian Church, Sacramento
Chalice Christian Church, San Carlos
United Disciples Fellowship, San Jose
New Spring Christian Church, Santa Clara
Garfield Park Christian Church, Santa Cruz
First Christian Church, Selma
Disciples of Christ - Visalia, Visalia
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