Church News
We wanted to share the links to the webinar from Saturday October 8th, and from the worship service on Sunday October 9th where Rev. David Finnegan-Hosey was our preacher.
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Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
Need stuff? The Casas Adobes Congregational Church’s annual rummage sale is being held on Friday and Saturday, November 4th and 5th.
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The Church of the Palms will host its 19th Annual Interfaith Conference onsite this November 4 & 5 during National Native American Heritage month. Consistent with our church’s mission statement of love of God, justice, and extravagant welcome, this is an interfaith opportunity to bridge connections to Indigenous peoples.
The theme is Native American Spirituality. Kaitlin Curtice, a nationally known speaker, Potawatomi Indian, author, and poet will be our speaker.
Read MoreWhat’s happening at YOUR church? Tell us about it! Just write up an article and submit it to Wende by Thursday at noon to have it included in the following Monday’s Loop.
Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
What’s happening at YOUR church? Tell us about it! Just write up an article and submit it to Wende by Thursday at noon to have it included in the following Monday’s Loop.
Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
What’s happening at YOUR church? Tell us about it! Just write up an article and submit it to Wende by Thursday at noon to have it included in the following Monday’s Loop.
Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
What’s happening at YOUR church? Tell us about it! Just write up an article and submit it to Wende by Thursday at noon to have it included in the following Monday’s Loop.
Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
What’s happening at YOUR church? Tell us about it! Just write up an article and submit it to Wende by Thursday at noon to have it included in the following Monday’s Loop.
Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
Church of the Beatitudes UCC
Key staff position with a progressive evolving Christian church, will oversee all media platforms through which the mission and marketing of the church and congregation is communicated. Position works closely with the Lead Pastor in carrying out various aspects of church programming.
Read MoreWhat’s happening at YOUR church? Tell us about it! Just write up an article and submit it to Wende by Thursday at noon to have it included in the following Monday’s Loop.
Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
Last fall, First Church Immigration Task Force members delivered tuition checks to three Maricopa Community Colleges on behalf of Dreamers attending five different Phoenix Union high schools. These checks covered the costs of dual credit classes for a unique group of PUHSD students — Dreamers — who came to Arizona as young children with their undocumented parents. Last year, we supported 15 students; it is our hope that we are able to do the same this year.
And we are also hopeful that this is the last school year Dreamers will be required to pay out-of-state tuition in Arizona.
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Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
Registration is now open for the October 8th free webinar featuring the Rev. David Finnegan-Hosey, author of Christ on the Psych Ward and Grace Is a Pre-Existing Condition.
His lecture, Sorrows Like Sea Billows Roll: Mental Health Challenges and Our Journeys of Faith, will be followed by a Q & A segment. The webinar will also feature poetry by the Rev. Michelle Hargrave, who has an ongoing poetry ministry with her Centenary United Methodist Church in Mankato, Minnesota.
Read MoreWhat’s happening at YOUR church? Tell us about it! Just write up an article and submit it to Wende by Thursday at noon to have it included in the following Monday’s Loop.
Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
What’s happening at YOUR church? Tell us about it! Just write up an article and submit it to Wende by Thursday at noon to have it included in the following Monday’s Loop.
Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
Our Lead Pastor Tulafono & First Lady Tulimalefoi Maga will be on their first Sabbatical Leave since their Graduation from the EFKAS Seminarian Theological School in July 2016. We are grateful for the love and support received from the Southwest Conference of UCC Family; but most especially to our own church family Toafa O Le Talalelei First Samoan Congregational Church in Wittmann.
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Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
‘We wish to express our gratitude to all our sister congregations in the SWC for having walked the faith journey with us these past six decades and shared with us all the hills and valleys of this journey. Thank you so much for keeping the faith; our journey may appear to be done, but in a way it continues in yours.
‘As we approach our time of closing, we do have some “things” – we hope of some value – for which we need to find new homes.’
Read MoreWhat’s happening at YOUR church? Tell us about it! Just write up an article and submit it to Wende by Thursday at noon to have it included in the following Monday’s Loop.
Holly Herman reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond. (Thanks, Holly!)
