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For Barbara Fedderly, music produces an awakening. When she listens to her iPod, the resident of Cedar Community in West Bend, Wisconsin, is suddenly animated. “She will hold her shoulders and sometimes smile,” Norman Fedderly says of his wife’s reaction to the music. Barbara is one of 19 current Cedar Community residents enrolled in the…
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Leaders of the United Church of Christ’s Council for Health and Human Service Ministries played a significant role at in-district legislative advocacy meetings this summer organized by LeadingAge, a national organization that exists to expand the world of possibilities for the aging. Former UCC General Minister and President the Rev. Geoffrey A. Black, who is a member of…
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Breaking from tradition, the UCC’s Council for Health and Human Service Ministries (CHHSM), which does not receive any funding from the denomination’s shared funding pool known as Our Church’s Wider Mission (OCWM), has decided to contribute to it instead. CHHSM, which is supported financially by 73 corporate members, made an initial donation of $1,000 this…
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Originally published September 12, 2016, in the Chicago Tribune, this op-ed was written by Tom Vanden Berk, CEO emeritus of CHHSM-member UCAN in Chicago and founder of Illinois’ Gun Violence Prevention Political Action Committee. Dueling op-eds published last week [in the Chicago Tribune] considered whether a “war on guns” — namely tougher mandatory sentences for…
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Leaders of the United Church of Christ’s Council for Health and Human Service Ministries played a significant role at in-district legislative advocacy meetings this summer organized by LeadingAge, a national organization that exists to expand the world of possibilities for the aging. Former UCC General Minister and President the Rev. Geoffrey A. Black, who is a member of…
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A marble water sculpture “Tao” by renowned artist Fred Bendheim will be dedicated on Friday, September 23, at Beatitudes Campus in Phoenix at 4:30 pm. The sculpture, originally commissioned for Frank Lloyd Wright’s “The Pottery House” in Paradise Valley, Arizona, was designed and constructed from 1982-1983. It was donated to Beatitudes Campus by the artist.…
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The Board of Directors of the United Church of Christ Cornerstone Fund is pleased to announce the appointment of Maria C. Coyne as the new President and CEO of the Cornerstone Fund. Coyne is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a degree in finance and attended the Weatherhead School of Management at…
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United Church Homes, a large United Church of Christ provider of older adult housing, has joined other leading senior service providers and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender organizations in a letter to the Obama Administration asking that greater attention be placed on the unique needs of LGBT seniors. “As a population that is too often…
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After 18-month-old Lamarrion was hospitalized due to physical abuse, he and his older brother Damond, 3, were given protection by the Division of Child and Family Services in Illinois, where the case was assigned to United Church of Christ-related Hoyleton Ministries. The case worker knew how important it would be to keep the brothers together and…
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To address the multi-faceted issue of youth gun violence, United Church of Christ-related UCAN knows it has to take more than one approach to the problem. UCAN, a Chicago organization that serves more than 10,000 at-risk youth, starts in the schools. Through its Hands Without Guns program, mentors help high school students explore alternatives to violence.…
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IFM Community Medicine's Campbell Receives Missouri Physicians' Distinguished Service Award - CHHSM
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The Missouri Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) presented David Campbell, M.D., FAAFP, and president and CEO of IFM Community Medicine in St. Louis, with the 2024 Distinguished Service Award during t...