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Conference Fall Meeting This Weekend

BRIDGEPORT -- The Fall Session of the 2008 Annual Meeting will be held at Central High School, 1 Lincoln Boulevard in Bridgeport this coming weekend, October 17-18. Keynote speaker the Rev. Stephen Gray will highlight the event on the theme Nurturing Generosity. Conference delegates will also consider the 2009 budgets, a proposed revision to the bylaws, a resolution, and other business. 10/15/2008

Silver Lake to Sponsor Second International Work Project in Spring

SHARON -- Silver Lake Conference Center will sponsor a second international youth work project trip in April 2009. The new group of twenty high school-age students will return to Oaxaca, Mexico, to work with Simply Smiles, assisting families living at the edge of a dump in building simple homes. 10/15/2008

Connecticut Supreme Court Rules Same-Gender Couples May Marry

HARTFORD -- Connecticut's State Supreme Court has ruled that preventing same-gender couples from obtaining and using marriage licenses violates the state's Constitution. 10/10/2008

ConnTact Online, October 2008: the Connecticut Conference 2008 Annual Report

HARTFORD -- It was a year of creativity, of protest, of prayer, of loss, and of learning. From the officers, leaders, and staff of the Connecticut Conference comes this account of the year that has gone by. 10/02/2008

National Religious Campaign Against Torture Calls for Witness on November 12

HARTFORD -- The National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) has named Wednesday, November 12th, as a National Day of Witness against the "legal" abuse of detained persons by government officials. On that day, religious delegations across the country will visit members of Congress. Local organizers have scheduled events in conjunction with the national effort, including an ecumenical worship service and a visit to Senator Dodd's Hartford office. 10/08/2008

Conference Calls Karen Ziel as Minister of Christian Education

HARTFORD -- The Connecticut Conference has called Karen E. Ziel, a Commissioned Minister in the United Church of Christ since 1996 and a Christian Educator for almost 25 years, to serve as the new Minister of Christian Education. A former Director of the Conference's Ruth Dudley Resource Center, she is currently Minister of Discipleship Education for with the Congregational Church of South Glastonbury, UCC. She will begin her new ministry on November 3rd. 10/03/2008

Report from an Amistad Freedom Tour Volunteer

NEW HAVEN -- The name "Amistad" graces Amistad United Church of Christ in Hartford and the Chapel at the UCC's national offices in Cleveland, and it is no wonder. In 1839, our Congregational forebears organized to defend 53 African captives from the modern Sierra Leone who had escaped from their captivity aboard the Spanish cargo schooner La Amistad, and lived one of the foundational stories of social justice work for our United Church of Christ. The Freedom Schooner Amistad, built at Mystic Seaport with partial funding from the United Church of Christ, continues the civil rights legacy of our denomination and does so proudly, flying the UCC flag alongside the Stars and Stripes and the national flags of her diverse crew. 10/02/2008

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Conference Minister's Pastoral Letter: October 9, 2008

Resources for a Sacred Conversation on Race