THE WEEKLY NEWS

January 9, 2024 | Volume 16 No. 2

Conference Calendar

Conference Classifieds

Local Church Events

Attention all Clergy!

Make sure you have completed the 2023 Information Review form. This form must be finished and sent into the Conference Office by January 19. Form: https://nhcucc.org/CaringForClergy/forms

CONFERENCE NEWS

Registration is Open!

Prepared to Serve 2024

Prepared to Serve 2024 is your opportunity to expand your knowledge, connect with likeminded individuals, and take home resources that will enrich your congregational experience.

Join us for a day of growth, transformation, and empowerment. Together, let's create new possibilities and explore new horizons.

nhcucc.info/pts2024

Guns to Gardens

An informational Zoom Meeting

Guns to Gardens is a project that transforms unwanted guns into gardening tools and other useful items. It aims to create safer communities by reducing the number of firearms in circulation. Guns to Gardens is hosting its second ever New Hampshire event this year and invites you to join them! Watch this video (passcode is: Rhqr+3#j) to learn more about the project and how to get involved. You can also sign up for an informational zoom meeting with Nancy Brown, a Guns to Gardens Coordinator, on January 17. Don't miss this opportunity to make a positive difference in your community!

Registration is now open!

It's time to sign up for a week (or more) at Horton Center!

Take a look at our summer schedule with camps for all ages HERE.

Questions? Give Tivvi a call!

Contact Tivvi (Horton Center Executive Director)

email: tpare@nhcucc.org, phone: 603-545-9660

Visit www.hortoncenter.org for more information.

Join our mailing list to be included in our seasonal newsletter. Fall 2023 Edition is HERE.

Local Church Support Ministry Is Looking for Preaching Mentors!

Do you see yourself mentoring a lay person whose goal is to step into the pulpit on occasion? Or perhaps you feel qualified to share preaching resources and experience? With fewer clergy available to fill church openings, gifted lay people want to step up and speak up. Let's provide some underpinnings and support and by so doing we may gift them, and their church, with a richer experience. If you are interested in being a Preaching Mentor, or learning more about it, contact Rev. Dr. Deborah Roof at pastordeborah@fpc-ucc.org

National Setting Training Oportunities

Monday, January 29, 6:00 – 9:00pm ET, Boundary Awareness Training for Ministers in Specialized Settings, with Revs. Tara Barber and Anissa Glaser-Bacon

This training, hosted by Revs. Tara Barber and Anissa Glaser-Bacon, is open to ministers serving in specialized settings throughout the United Church of Christ. Serving in specialized settings requires particular attention to boundaries within the ministry setting and home church that are challenging and different from those serving as local church pastors. This training will focus on matters that relate specifically to issues that these ministers face, providing opportunities for clergy to reflect on best practices and growth in their practice of ministry.

Donations to be counted toward 2023

Please note that the Conference 2023 books are closing on January 15, 2024. All donations to be included in 2023 giving must be received by that day to be counted as a 2023 donation. For any January checks, please note on your check which year you are sending these receipts for.

Thank you from the Conference staff.

12D

December Newsletter

UPCOMING CONFERENCE EVENTS

Prepared To Serve 2024

Pembroke Academy (now with hybrid offerings)

Feb 24

Conference Calendar

REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS

We lift our prayers of thanksgiving for the life, work and courageous ministry of Dr. Harriet Ward as she lives into the final stages of her illness. We give grateful praise for the ways she has encouraged, challenged and moved our Conference to engage in the work of anti-racism through our actions and ministries. May God lift her Spirit high and go with her, and all who love her, at this time.

We lift our prayers of concern for the Conway Village Congregational Church, UCC and their pastor the Rev. John Hughes as they recover from extensive flood damage to their church building in late December. May they know our support and care, and the love of God, as they forge a path forward

Holy One, in your mercy, hear our prayers.

ACROSS THE CONFERENCE

On January 21, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. the Rockingham Association of the United Church of Christ will install the Rev. Dr. Marlayna Schmidt as Pastor and Teacher of the First Congregational Church of Hampton, UCC.

WIDER CHURCH RESOURCES

United Church of Christ	Click Here
Association of UC Educators	Click Here
Global Ministries	Click Here
UCC Volunteer Ministries	Click Here
Responding to Media Inquiries	Click Here

CONFERENCE MINISTERS

Sunday Schedule: January 14, 2024

The Conference Minister and Associate Conference Minister

will be worshipping at their home churches.

Conference Center

Monday - Friday | 8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Gordon Rankin (He/Him)

Conference Minister

Sara Marean (She/Her)

Associate Conference Minister

Cindy Bradley (She/Her)

Administrative Assistant

Lydia Frasca (She/Her)

Finance Officer

Susanne McCarron (She/Her)

Search and Call

Tivvi Pare (She/Her) Horton Center Executive Director, Christian Edu. Specialist

Thaddeus Sieverding (He/Him)

CTE Specialist

Phone Number:

603-225-6647

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