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An Advent and Christmas Season Workshop for Preachers
An Advent and Christmas Season Workshop for Preachers

Looking for ways to breathe new life into your Advent and Christmas season preaching? Join this workshop with Anna Carter Florence and Jake Myers from Columbia Theological Seminary, and explore the upcoming lectionary texts together, with a special emphasis on Luke 1.

We’ll discover some new strategies for reading Scripture that are easy to grasp and easy to adapt to your context. We’ll move from text to sermon, as we consider what the familiar stories might have to say to us this year. We’ll talk about some images of the preacher to spur thought and conversation. And we’ll share roundtable conversation about how the light of the world might be illuminating our own congregations and our own lives, as preachers.

Sponsored by the CTS Preachers’ Studio for Renewal, this one-day event will be a lively and energizing deep dive into Scripture and your own preaching ministry. The workshop is limited to the first 35 registrants. 

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Faith In Action Blog
September is National Preparedness Month
September is National Preparedness Month

September is National Preparedness Month and the Cornerstone Fund is joining UCC Disaster Ministries, the Insurance Board, and Pension Board for a webinar entitled "Loving Our Neighbors Through Disaster Preparedness and Response" on Tuesday, Sept. 8 at 12 pm AZ / 1 pm NM & El Paso.

Learn more and RSVP here.

Related to preparedness month, also read short case studies about two churches whose hurricane repairs/recoveries we helped finance via our Disaster Care Investment & Loan Program:

‍    ‍Church of the Isles UCC

‍    ‍Pass-A-Grille Community Beach Church

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Jottings 8/24/2026
Church News
Jottings 8/24/2026
Church News

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.

Wende 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.

Tag SWC and Wende on Facebook and Instagram to get our attention so we can share your posts! We’re @swcucc and Wende is @yeswende.

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