
11/05/2023 - Nine Faith Formation Leaders Achieve Certification
By: Deborah Gline Allen - Conference programming Leadership Development Making DisciplesThe Faith Formation Leadership Program has certified 78 leaders to date.
The Faith Formation Leadership Program has certified 78 leaders to date.
UCC Youth from the greater New England region are invited to a special gathering at Silver Lake Camp and Retreat Center on July 28-31, 2024. Youth, ...
The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) seeks to provide all children with a healthy start, a head start, a fair start, and a moral start by focusing on poverty, education, health, safety and racial justice. CDF aspires to the goal that no child is left behind; that if four ...
NOWCYM (National Organization of Wider-Church Youth Ministry) is seeking to develop a pool of sixteen facilitators to help lead Crossroads Anti-Racism...
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Faith Formation's seventh Spotlight on Service, showcasing Second Congregational Church of West Boxford's Boston-North Backyard Mission.
An update on SNEUCC's Our Whole Lives (OWL) Facilitator training opportunities for Fall 2023.
Teens from the Southern New England Conference joined up with over forty youth from across the country to participate in Youth @ Synod in Indianapolis on June 30 to July 4. They engaged in worship and witness, service and learning around poverty and homelessness, and ...
Like many congregations, First Church of Christ in Woodbridge (CT) has very few young children participating in worship. In a recent conversation, Interim pastor, Rev. Susan Murtha described how this congregation took steps to reach out to families in the area in a ...
At Enfield UCC we have been saddened by the continued push to ban books not only at the Enfield Board Of Education but also around the state and country. Our response is to share, with the help of our community partners, a new little lending library. This project has ...
“It is transformative to have a positive, sacred frame for all that sexuality encompasses in our lives. Children are learning about it all the time, whether we’re in the conversation or not. So why wouldn’t we be? If we are not, we are abdicating to purity culture and ...
Rev. Jack Davidson, pastor at Spring Glen UCC in Hamden, CT convened a virtual meeting of clergy and youth leaders in late January to discuss various models for multi-church youth ministry. The meeting was a forum to share successes, struggles, and creative ideas for ...
Creating disciples of healthy, faith-based sexuality.
“Achieving the certification has made me a better faith formation leader."
Faith Formation's fourth Spotlight on Service, showcasing Northampton, MA's Cathedral in the Night.
Faith Formation's fifth Spotlight on Service, showcasing Southborough, MA's Southborough Safe Spaces.
“As we begin to emerge from this time of unprecedented challenge and change, the need to strengthen our churches for the sake of the world is greater than ever. The Southern New England Conference is responding to your expressed needs for reliable, innovative resources ...
Faith Formation's third Spotlight on Service, showcasing the ministries of the First Congregational Church of Branford, CT (including joint ministry ...
A news story announcing the Faith Formation team's Confirmation Retreat schedule for the 2022-2023 season.
Faith Formation's third Spotlight on Service, showcasing youth ministry in Glastonbury, CT.
Faith Formation's second Spotlight on Service, showcasing the efforts of a SNEUCC MID in Indiana/Kentucky.
Registration is open for new classes in 2022-2023.
Faith Formation's inaugural Spotlight on Service, showcasing the efforts of Newington UCC's SALT youth group.
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The SNEUCC Faith Formation Leadership Program presents certificates for 2021
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Three RI Churches plan an Outdoor Faith and Outdoor Fun One-day Camp Event at Irons Homestead!
Eighty percent of this year's Strengthen the Church offering, traditionally taken this Sunday - Pentecost Sunday - will benefit Faith Formation and ...
When the pandemic restricted plans for summer travel for mission work, Rev. Jennie Valentine of the Barnstable Association shifted gears and began to organize a local service-learning option that also includes a connection to the UCC General Synod.
Can you define your faith in six words? SNEUCC Confirmation Students rose to the challenge at the recent Confirmation Enrichment program sponsored the Faith Formation Team. The fourth in a series called Nurturing Faith, this session focused on United Church of Christ ...
Three educators who completed all the requirements for certification in Faith Formation Leadership were honored during a virtual ceremony on October ...
The Southern New England Conference is asking churches to support ministries that strive to nurture discipleship through the upcoming Strengthen the ...
Agape Spiritual Community in Waltham, MA is offering virtual mindfulness and meditation ministry for children and families. With many of us at home ...
Saugatuck Congregational Church finds new approach to learning about Jesus
In a time when lines drawn between groups of people get darker and more defined, Newtown Congregational Church is making efforts to break barriers and...
Sherry Clark, Cindy Tolin and Deb Raymond (far right) with Debbie Gline Allen Three people of six who completed all the requirements for Certification for Christian Educators were recognized at Super Saturday on October 5, 2019. Pictured from left to right: Sherry ...
"When we put church in the ecosystem of everything else that we do, it makes sense." — Lydia Gajdel
Hartford, CT — Pastors, youth leaders, parents, and siblings gathered at the Connecticut Conference Office for a celebration of the 2019 cohort of Thinking About Working For God (TAWFG) Apprentices. TAWFG is a signature program of the CT Conference that offers youth a ...
The annual SHINE retreat was one of several retreats held at Silver Lake weekend. Sponsored by the Connecticut Conference, SHINE seeks to nurture leadership skills in youth who are Thinking About Working For God (TAWFG).
Youth from the Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts conferences headed off Together, As One today (July 19) on a bus bound for the UCC Eastern...
Four UCC Churches are engaged in a interdependent project to create a new youth ministry program for the youth of their churches.
The First Church of Christ in Simsbury has added three young adults to the church community this year to serve in their new Young Adult Service Community (YASC).
Annual SHINE retreat nurtures young leaders who are Thinking About Working for God.
Southern New England Conferences collaborate to send thirty-seven young leaders to Youth @ Synod in Baltimore.
"Where would any of us be were it not for the mentors who came along and, at just the right moment, blew on the embers of our being-in-that-place, bringing visions to light, thoughts into focus and frustrations into opportunities? There are, of course, formal and ...
"Nothing can dim the light that shines from within."– Maya Angelou, poet. "SHINE" was the theme for the annual Thinking About Working For God (TAWFG) retreat at Silver Lake.
On Saturday, September 24, youth and adults from the Northeast Chapter of Giv2 (Give Squared) spent time helping out in the community garden.