Conference News
Please join us in welcoming Dr Toni Hawkins to the Southwest Conference for meet and greets around the Conference.
–Susan Valiquette, Moderator
These informal events are open to all clergy and lay people throughout the area. Come and meet Dr. Toni, our Transitional Conference Minister, enjoy light refreshments, and mingle with old and new SWC friends!
Read More
You’re invited to attend the Ecclesiastical Council for ellie hutchison of Church of the Beatitudes, for approval for ordination to the ministry (pending call), on Sunday, March 26th at 3:00 pm MST, via Zoom.
Read More
After a year-long search, the United Church of Christ Board’s Search Committee for General Minister and President has made a historic choice. The committee will be recommending Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia Thompson to the UCCB this week as nominee for General Minister and President. If elected, she would be the first woman, and the first woman of African descent, to lead the denomination.
Read More
In the media and social media, gas and electric stoves have recently been a "hot topic." In this webinar, we will seek to put this "heated debate" within its proper ethical context in terms of environmental justice, public health, and concerns about methane pollution.
This webinar will prepare faith communities for informed action in caring for our neighbors and our planet.
Read More
One Great Hour of Sharing® is one of four special mission offerings of the United Church of Christ. This Lenten Offering supports the disaster, refugee, and development ministries of the United Church of Christ within Wider Church Ministries.
Make a secure online gift today, giving generously to the One Great Hour of Sharing offering. The suggested offering date for OGHS is March 19, 2023.
Read More
On this, the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the United Church of Christ calls on our clergy, our lay leaders, our churches, and all people of faith to pray for peace, to pray for an end to the hostilities that are ravaging the people and land of Ukraine, and to pray for a de-escalation of rhetoric that threatens nuclear options.
Read More
Synod resolutions move to UCC Board, create space for ‘Holy Spirit to be at work.’
Read More
Our own Rev. Dave Stabenfeldt was someone who was interviewed by the author for the book, and he's shared this with us.
Read More
The wider church invited to create ‘play space’ with the General Minister and President, by engaging in a series of interactive conversations through May.
Read MoreChurch moderators, treasurers, and other persons in leadership:
The Center for Transformational Leadership is excited to announce a Church Leadership Training session that will be held over Zoom on Saturday, February 25th from 9:00AM - 12:00PM.
Read MoreThe Southwest Conference staff invites you to pause at noon each Wednesday, wherever you are, to be renewed in prayer, knowing that you're joined by countless others across our Conference.
Read More
Antoinette Brown Award Nominations Deadline Extended to February 14! What outstanding clergywomen can you nominate from our Conference? We’re challenging every conference to nominate two or more women and one church-related organization to receive an Antoinette Brown Society Award! Celebrating the life and ministry of Antoinette Brown and all women in ordained ministry, nominations for the Antoinette Brown Award are open until February 14, 2023.
Read MoreThese course offerings are free…BUT they are not EASY! This journey of changing lenses, adjusting our perceptions and ultimately our organizational systems and culture takes time and effort, introspection, new learning, practice, perseverance, honesty and humility. I hope we can make 2023 a year when we dive deep as individuals, churches and a conference into this pilgrimage of antiracism and racial justice. Let me describe to you the offerings that will be coming in the next six months, all via ZOOM, and all are open to BOTH lay and clergy.
Read MoreThe Southwest Conference staff, along with Annual Gathering Coordinator Karen Richter, have the planning well underway and we need feedback from clergy in non-parish settings.
Read MoreThe Southwest Conference staff, along with Annual Gathering Coordinator Karen Richter, have the planning well underway and we need feedback from all SWC clergy and church delegates.
Read MoreIn Albuquerque last weekend, Dr. Toni preached her first sermon and facilitated a racial justice forum on the wealth gap her new role as our Transitional Conference Minister, right after participating in the Common Ground at the Border to see the “amazing ministry taking place throughout this conference.” She said, “Join us in passing the salt to promote transformation in the lives of many. Truly the best is yet to come!”
Read what some Albuquerque folks had to say about Dr. Toni’s visit.
Read MoreOPTIC - Office of Philanthropy, Technology, Identity, & Communication for the United Church of Christ - is updating the VERY dated OCWM materials with new resources.
Check them out.
Read More
Check out these two offerings shared by Rev. Teresa Blythe for reflection and learning this Lent: Online Mini-retreat with Stations of the Cross artwork and Four Zoom Presentations on Walking with the Spiritual but not Religious.
Read More
Seventeen resolutions have been formally submitted for Synod consideration this summer.
Read More
PATHWAYS Theological Education, Inc., announces its first CPE cohort for people:
who are currently in or pursuing pastoral care vocations
who want the challenge of working in community settings
who are not necessarily healthcare oriented.
Offered through Sankofa CPE, this cohort will include those working in urban and rural settings, and also those from a variety of educational, religious, economic, and ethnic backgrounds.
This is a fully certified 24-week CPE program, available to participants around the country, combining online group work and supervision with onsite work in a community. The application process is extensive and our first cohort will be small; applicants do not need to be enrolled in or possess a Master’s degree but must be serious about fulfilling the requirements of the course. The application deadline is January 17 for the course beginning February 13. There is still space!
Read More
