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• A Word From Tim Downs - February 2012

  Dear Friends, A Free “Do Over” Over the last four weeks I have heard four sermons while traveling with the Global Theological Education group in Thailand and Korea. Each sermon was an invitation to renewal on the occasion of the New Year, ranging th...

• Conference News - January 2012

  Disaster Relief  |  How Can You Help?Registration is Open for Volunteers in 2012 Long-Term Disaster Recovery, Birmingham, AL. At the end of April 2011, tornadoes struck in Alabama and several other southern states. Long-Term Recovery has just be...

• Feature Focus - January 2012

  Welcome to Our Newest Church!On November 20, Kirkwood United Church of Christ was officially received as a congregation with full standing into the United Church of Christ. About 150 people from across the Georgia-South Carolina Association gathered at th...

• News From Our Local Churches - January 2012

  Holy Trinity Community Church RespondsIn Cheatham County, TN near Nashville, a young man recently committed suicide. He was harassed and bullied because he was gay. No churches in the county would stand by his family, and no pastor would be a part of his ...

• Celebrations - January 2012

  We are pleased to announce that Charmaine Johnson, a student at Candler School of Theology, has been asked to serve as the Cannon Chapel preacher for the month of January by the homiletics faculty of the seminary. Charmaine is a member of Victory for t...

• Lifting Up . . . January 2012

  We mourn the death of Winston Clark, minister of Lanett Congregational Christian Church more than 20 years ago. During his ministry he served at a church in the South Alabama/Northwest Florida Association of the Southeast Conference. He also served congre...

• A Word From Tim Downs - January 2012

  It's a Global Commitment Dear Friends,When you receive this letter, I will be in Thailand participating in our Southeast Conference Global Theological Education program.  Many of you are aware that at our 2011 Annual Meeting, we voted to become a Gl...

• Conference News - December

  Mission 1:11 ResponseKirkwood UCC took on the Mission:1 challenge with passion, outreach, education and on a dare. They decided to add an extra Soup Saturday meal during Mission:1, to the church's twice monthly community meal. "It's a chance for us to mee...

• A Word From Tim Downs - December 2011

  Dear Friends, Joy to the World! I am writing to you in the middle of Advent, mindful that we Christians living in the rhythms of the liturgical year are once again out of sync with the world arouafter Thanksgiving and as the Christmas tree in Rockefelle...

• News From Our Local Churches - November

  At its fall meeting, the Georgia South Carolina Association voted to receive Kirkwood United Church of Christ as a congregation in full standing in the UCC.  The church shared the story of their journey from their beginnings in a coffee shop through ...

• Conference News - November

  SEC Conference News Staff Plans for 2012At a recent daylong planning event in October for the Southeast Conference staff, we looked ahead together at the program year 2012.  Debbie Spearman is planning a strategic plan for financial development for ...

• Feature Focus - November 2011

  “Churches are Coming Alive!” Transforming Churches Throughout the SEC  --  by Tim Downs Across the Southeast Conference, churches are coming alive!  We know that the conference has had a successful strategy for new church development, ...

• Celebrations - November 2011

  John and Rebecca Shillingburg, both recent graduates of Columbia Theological Seminary, members of Church of the Savior, Roswell, A Community of Faith of the United Church of Christ, were ordained in a service on October 16, at 2:00P. Participating in the...

• Lifting Up . . . November 2011

  Chris Graham, pastor of Church of the Savior, Roswell, continues his struggle with ALS.  While his prognosis remains uncertain, he is able to attend church and preach on occasions with warmth and eloquence. We invite you to hold Chris, his wife Carol...

• A Word From Tim Downs - November 2011

  Dear Friends, A New Season in the Life of the Southeast Conference Throughout this newsletter you are seeing articles about churches that are seeking to Renew, to Grow, to Respond to the line from the old hymn, "New occasions teach new duties". The con...

• Feature Focus - September 2011

  TAP MEETS PATHWAYSEquipping Leaders, from minister to lay, with the tools for meeting the changing leadership needs of today's church As we begin to devote our energy to the implementation of PATHWAYS and to the gradual phasing out of the TAP program, ...

• A Word From Tim Downs - September 2011

    Dear Friends, Charting Priorities for Our Lives As the fall calendar unfolds, our conference and associations are hitting full stride. The Conference staff and I are “on the road again”, working with churches, preaching, speaking, planning, and ...

• News From Our Local Churches - September

  Peace Congregational Church UCC, Clemson, SC helped plan and lead a service at Clemson University where over 500 people attended, called “Remembering September 11, 2001:  Looking Back-Looking Forward Toward Compassion, Peace and Reconciliation.”&...

• Conference News - September

    March for Justice The decision of the State of Georgia Board of Paroles and Pardons announced this month to allow the execution of Troy Davis to proceed is not a decision that advances justice in this great state, but is an echo of another and mor...

• Lifting Up . . . September 2011

    We lift up the family and friends of Mark Allen MacPhail, a Savannah police officer shot and killed on August 19, 1989.   We lift up the family and friends of Troy Anthony Davis, convicted of his murder and put to death by lethal injection Septe...