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Note: If you would like to make a donation to one of our Mission Partners, please visit “Donate to Our Mission Partners” under the “Resources” tab. Thank you again for your generous support!

Caring for Churches, Caring for Clergy

Please find links to the Level 1 (basic statement) and Level 2 (more detail) Case Statements for our Caring for Churches, Caring for Clergy Campaign. For more information about this effort, please contact david@pennwest.org or office@pennwest.org.

November 9, 2024 Special Meeting of Penn West Conference

Many thanks to everyone who made our four PA UCC Conference Annual Meeting from June 7-9 this year such an historic and memorable event. We are inviting you now on your calendars to please hold Saturday, November 9, 2024, as the date of a special meeting to vote on a motion to General Synod to request that the boundaries of the four PA UCC Conferences be altered to allow for the establishment of the Keystone Conference. For those of you who weren’t at Annual Meeting, you may find a wealth of information about the Keystone Project here. Some of it may require some additional contextual explanation, so if you have questions, please do not hesitate to ask any of our Conference’s Keystone Working Group members about it.

They are:
Rev. Dave Mears: dave.mears33@gmail.com
Rev. Liddy Barlow: lbarlow@casp.org
Wendy Bigelow: wbigelow5@comcast.net
Deb Long: deblong672@gmail.com
Tom Croner: tomcroner@yahoo.com

The final text of the motion to be considered, along with an official call to the meeting, should be made available sometime before the beginning of October, 2024. The meeting is scheduled to be held at First Reformed United Church of Christ, 312 S. Maple Ave., Greensburg PA, and we are planning to have a Zoom option to attend, as well. It is scheduled to begin at 10 AM Eastern time. The vote is scheduled to take place at 11:30 AM, with an announcement about the outcome shared among the four Conferences at noon. Please be on the lookout for more details/information about this meeting soon. Thank you for your prayers for the work and ministry of the Penn West Conference and of the wider United Church of Christ.

Prayers for our Partners in the Philippines

We give thanks to God for the partnership that Penn West Conference has with the Northwest Luzon Conference of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines. We ask that you continue to remember to support them our SHEEP Fund (Sustaining Hope for Educational Expenses in the Philippines). Gifts to the SHEEP Fund may be made electronically using the donate button on our homepage, and/or by sending a check to the Conference, with SHEEP Fund in the memo. Thank you for all the efforts you are doing to share God’s love across the globe!

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