Concerns and Celebrations
James Myers, retired pastor of First Congregational UCC, Birmingham, celebrated his 80th birthday with his family and friends on August 16th. James’ son Gary Myers is the pastor of Trinity Congregational UCC, Athens, AL, and a member of the Board of Wider Church Ministries of the UCC
September 7th, Pilgrim Congregational UCC, Chattanooga, welcomes back its former pastor David Beebe, returning to celebrate their Homecoming.
Pleasant Hill Community Church, UCC, TN., bid farewell to its interim minister Jack Seville, who with his wife Fanny moves on to a position as Interim Associate Conference Minister of the St. Louis Association of the Missouri Mid-South Conference. Tom Warren, pastor of Pleasant Hill has returned from a sabbatical which took him, Kim, his wife, and their two children to Guatemala, Venezuela, and Cuba. They have a power point and presentation that they would be open to sharing with any congregation interested.
Dick Sales, founder and inspiration of the TAP (Theology among the People) lay theology program of the Southeast Conference has announced his retirement again. He will retire from serving as the director of PEPP, the alternative track to ordination of the Alabama Region of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
Pastors of our dynamic new and newly affiliated churches from across the Conference have been invited to an introduction to the United Church of Christ, its offices and leaders to be held in Cleveland, OH. Invited to this special opportunity this fall are Cindy Andrews-Looper, pastor of Holy Trinity Community UCC, Nashville, Andy Sidden pastor of Garden of Grace UCC, Columbia, SC, Candace Chellew-Hodges, associate pastor of Garden of Grace, Susannah Davis, pastor of Kirkwood UCC, Atlanta, Susie Smith, pastor of Peace Congregational UCC, Clemson, SC, Lewis Kola, pastor of Emmanuel Christian Ministries (UCC), Norcross, GA, and Anita Hauenstein, member of Brookmeade Congregational UCC, Nashville, and leader of a Nashville Comma Connection.
Cindy Benz, who served as interim pastor at Fairfield Glade Community Church Fairfield, TN, has announced the end of her interim on October 14 as the congregation prepares to welcome its new pastor. Cindy’s husband, Steve, recently left the position of Presbytery Executive in East Tennessee Presbytery, and is moving to a Presbytery in Western Pennsylvania.
We received word from Debbie Douglas, student in care of Alabama-Tennessee Association, and member of Pleasant Hill Community UCC, TN, that she is settling in at Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, and eager to start her journey of preparation for ordained ministry.
Walter Brueggemann, retired as Professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, and member of Central Congregational UCC, Atlanta, has alerted the Conference that he has moved to Cincinnati, OH this summer, where he plans to retire.
Sue Ingham, recently retired Iowa Conference Minister, who lives with her husband, Tom outside of Charleston, SC, and is a member of Circular Congregational UCC, Charleston, reports that Tom’s recurrent thyroid cancer is being treated successfully by an experimental regiment of chemotherapy.
Diane Weible, daughter in law of Lyle and Sharon Weible, (Lyle retired recently as Conference Minister of Penn Central Conference), members of Pleasant Hill Community UCC, TN, has just been called as Associate Conference Minister for Stewardship of the Hawaii Conference UCC. Diane and her husband Timothy, a UCC pastor, served as missionaries in Japan for 12 years prior to coming to Hawaii.
If there is news that you wish to have shared with others in the Southeast Conference family, please contact Tim at tdowns@secucc.org.
Posted on September 12, 2008
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