Welcome to a new vision

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Welcome to a new vision

• A Church Alive in the Valley
• MCC/UCC

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A New experience
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The UCC What can it add to us
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Association

• 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
  CentralEasternNorthernSouthern

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130 Churches
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130 Churches

• 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
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General Synod

• Is made up of 43 Conferences

That is 5,600 Churches
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Opportunity for Ministry
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Health Care Justice

• Council on Health and Human Service Ministries
  (CHHSM)www.chhsm.org
• UCC Welfare Working Groupwww.uccwelfareworkinggro
  up.com
• UCC Parish Nurse NetworkEmail scross_at_eden.edu
• UCC Physician's NetworkEmail jklnsmith_at_aol.com
• UCC Mental Health Networkwww.min-ucc.org

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Wider church ministries

• 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.

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Justice and Witness Ministries

• 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.

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Civil and Human Rights

• 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

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Peacemaking

• Just Peace
• Conscientious Objection
• Nuclear Weapons

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Justice for women

• Women's Justice
• Expansive Language 
• Human Trafficking
• Reproductive Justice
• Sexual and Domestic Violence

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Childrens Justice

• Bullying What we can do to stop it
• Justice for Children
• Public Education
• Sexuality Education

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Sexuality and education

• Sexuality Education
• UCAN - UCC HIV and AIDS Network
• UCC Coalition for LGBT Concerns
• Bullying What We Can Do to Stop It

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Racialjustice

• Racial Justice
• Racial Justice in the UCC
• Multi-Racial Multi-Cultural Church
• Sacred Conversation on Race - the Journey
  Continues

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Environmental justice

• Biodiversity
• Climate Change
• Environmental Racism
• Consumerism
• Energy Generation
• Food and Farming
• Green Buildings
• Green Jobs
• Health
• Mountain Top Removal

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Economic justice

• Banking and our Values
• Coffee Project (Fair Trade)
• Congregation-based Community Organizing
• Economic Crisis
• Covenant Program
• Farm Workers
• Federal Budget and Appropriations
• Hunger and Food Security 
• Inequality
• Just Eating
• Globalization\
• Gulf Coast Initiative
• Immigration
• International Trade and Investment
• Jubilee Debt relief
• Labor Sunday
• Labor Unions
• Low-wage Work

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Global Ministries

• 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

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Justice and Witness Ministries

•  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.

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Local Church Ministries

• 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.

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Office of General Ministries

• 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. 

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Health ministries

• 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

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Immersion Centers

• 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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Two as One

• MCC in the Valley

• United Church of Christ

• To better serve our community

• That we may all be one