Insurance

Protect Your Church! United Church of Christ Insurance Board provides property and casualty insurance for 36 of the 38 UCC conferences as well as 2300+ UCC churches. UCCIB also offer many educational services, resources and tools to assist ALL UCC churches in managing their risk and avoiding loss.
 
UCC Pension Board Policies regarding employee benefits for clergy and lay employees serving those churches
Planning tips from the Insurance Advisory Board: Tropicl Storm / Hurricane preparation (planning for emergencies)
Planning tips from the Insurance Advisory Board: Response to Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters (risk management issues

Kaye Crawford provides everyday green ideas for the faith community...
If Christian communities see as important the caretaker role of God's creation, churches can become models for implementing simple changes in a congregation's on-going life. Read more....
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Church Stewardship
Resources available ... Read on!
Paul Davis reports on attending a Stewardship event, where he focused on Year-Round Stewardship.  Tracy Carnes, from the UCC Stewardship Team offered a wealth of resources, a couple of which are attached.  Participants received copies of Inspiring Generosity, their basic resource.  (Paul Davis has used this book with stewardship people and found it helpful and thought provoking.)  Persons attending the workshop also received The Great Permission:  An Asset-Based Field Guide for Congregations, a small book and a Lutheran resource (I think all of us were given this book).
Year-Round Stewardship Calendar for United Church of Christ congregations / All resources named in this planner are available from United Church Resources, 800-325-7061. Stewardship Theme Materials available in the spring. More
Keynote address: Heartland Stewardship Conference, by Rochelle A. Stackhouse / Adam and Eve had it all: enough food to satisfy any hunger of their bodies, beauty surrounding their every step, the companionship of the wide variety of created beings, a soul mate to be a partner through the days, and the intimate presence of God in their midst. It's what we call, "Paradise." But paradise included a tempter and forbidden fruit, and Eve and Adam succumbed to the temptation to want more than perfection.... More
Living with Money: an Overview / Living with Money is a resource that enables participants to talk openly about the often-taboo subject of money within the context of a trusting community of faith. More
Christian Stewardship vs. Secular Fundraising / Good stewardship raises money but does so ion the context of broader and deeper concern about "giving" as a way of life and not simply a donation to a project. More

Church Revitalization / Evangelism
"Befriending the Stranger: A Bulletin on Church Hospitality & Revitalization."
Rev. Dr. Randy Hammer, minister of First Congregational, United Church of Christ, Albany, NY;
Chair of the Hudson Mohawk Association, UCC, E-Team;
Member of the New York Conference Commission on Revitalization, Evangelism and Church Development;
and Chair of the New York Conference, UCC, New Church Start Team.
The Inportance of Caring (June 2007)

Committee of Twelve Report
SOC 2006 Annual Meeting: The Committee of Twelve document in pdf format

German / American Church Partnership
German American Church Partnership: Reformation ties

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