Transcript Welcome to a new vision

A Church Alive in the Valley
MCC/UCC
 Affiliating
with the UCC gives us greater
support and colleagues in which to work.
 We would belong to a central association of
41 churches
 These churches are of four associations in
the conference
 These associations are
Central
Eastern
Northern
Southern
The goals and responsibilities of
the Associations are as follows:
to cultivate a spirit of
oneness in Christ among the
member churches
to stimulate the spiritual life
and mission of the member
churches
and to authorize and nurture
ministers and ministry in the
local churches
Is made up of 43
Conferences
That is 5,600 Churches
Council on Health and Human Service
Ministries (CHHSM)
www.chhsm.org
UCC Welfare Working Group
www.uccwelfareworkinggroup.com
UCC Parish Nurse Network
Email: [email protected]
UCC Physician's Network
Email: [email protected]
UCC Mental Health Network
www.min-ucc.org
We support congregations and the other
settings of the church in developing
relationships with a wider church that is
global, multiracial and multicultural.
open and affirming, and accessible to all.
Doing justice, seeking peace
and building community are
central to the identity of the
United Church of Christ. We
invite you to explore the
breadth and depth of the UCC's
justice work. Join us in building
a stronger faith-based
movement for peace, justice,
equality and inclusivity.
Criminal Justice
Health Care
Human Rights
Immigration
LGBT Justice
Media Justice
Our Faith Our Vote Campaign
Physician Aid in Dying/Physician Assisted
Suicide
Torture Awareness – Stop Torture
Women's Issues
Just Peace
Conscientious Objection
Nuclear Weapons
Women's Justice
Expansive Language
Human Trafficking
Reproductive Justice
Sexual and Domestic Violence
Bullying: What we can do to stop it
Justice for Children
Public Education
Sexuality Education
Sexuality Education
UCAN - UCC HIV and AIDS Network
UCC Coalition for LGBT Concerns
Bullying: What We Can Do to Stop It
Racial Justice
Racial Justice in the UCC
Multi-Racial Multi-Cultural Church
Sacred Conversation on Race - the
Journey Continues
Biodiversity
Tar Sands/Keystone XL
Climate Change
Pipeline
Environmental Racism
Transportation
Consumerism
Water and Air
Energy Generation
Gulf Coast Response
Food and Farming
Disaster Ministries
Green Buildings
Green Jobs
Health
Mountain Top Removal
Banking and our
Values
Coffee Project (Fair
Trade)
Immigration
International Trade
and Investment
Jubilee Debt relief
Congregation-based
Community Organizing Labor Sunday
Economic Crisis
Labor Unions
Covenant Program
Low-wage Work
Farm Workers
Poverty
Federal Budget and
Appropriations
Privatization
Hunger and Food
Security
Inequality
Just Eating
Globalization\
Gulf Coast Initiative
Race, Ethnicity, and
Economic Justice
Recession
Social Security
Sweatshops
Workplace Justice
Colombia
East Timor
Globalization
International Trade and Investment
Israel/Palestine - Through our Partners in
Global Ministries
Jubilee Debt Relief
Marshall Islands
Sudan (Responsibility to Protect
Campaign)
United Nations
JWM helps local congregations and all
settings of the church respond to God's
commandments to do justice, seek peace
and effect change for a better world.
Local Church Ministries’ purpose is to
encourage and support congregations in
the fulfillment of God's mission,
especially in parish life and leadership;
book, curricula and resource production;
and congregational vitality and
discipleship, including evangelism,
stewardship and church finances,
worship and education, and church
buildings and loans.
Its mission is to care for the spiritual life,
unity, and well-being of the church, to
nurture our covenantal life and its
ecumenical and interfaith relationships,
to provide regular processes which focus
on theological reflection throughout the
church; and to assist in the total mission
of the United Church of Christ.
The Council for Health and Human Service
Ministries
(CHHSM) is a non-profit association of more
than 350 UCC-related ministries and programs
engaged in primary and acute health care;
services to persons with disabilities; children,
youth and families; and the aging (continuing
care and retirement housing). CHHSM offers a
variety of services and products to enhance
the ministries of its members and their
relationships within the UCC.
Healthcare Justice, HIV/AIDS Ministries,
Human Sexuality Ministries, UCC Disabilities
Ministries, UCC Mental health network, UCC
Coalition for LGBT concerns…
Franklin Center at Bricks –a former
plantation that is now a center for
leadership and Justice training
UCC Center for Environmental Justice at
Pilgrim Firs- A Place where People can be
immersed in a justice-centered response to
climate change and environmental equity.
Centro Romero -Provides immersion and
educational opportunities in the city of
Tijuana, Mexico
Enabling participants to enhance their
political, socio-economic, and cultural views
of the forces that are shaping the lives of
many countries and families throughout the
continent.
Justice and Witness Ministries: Washington
Office - to make a better world possible by
addressing the systemic problems that we
face as a country and as part of the world.
Hunger, poverty, peace and security, racism,
care for the earth. These are among the
types of justice issues that we work to
improve through federal policies.
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MCC in the Valley
To better serve our community
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United Church of
Christ
That we may all be one