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Submit Workshop Proposals Now for CHHSM’s 2020 Annual Gathering, ‘Justice and Grace — Together’

By Barb Powell | October 11, 2019

The UCC Council for Health and Human Service Ministries announced today (Oct. 11) that “Justice and Grace — Together” will be the theme of its 82nd Annual Gathering, to be held March 3-5, 2020, at the Guest House at Graceland in Memphis. “Our choice of theme is related to our choice of Memphis as the…

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It’s a PEAK Experience for Residents of UCC-related Piedmont Crossing

By Barb Powell | October 11, 2019

The excitement in the air was palpable last May as the 14 nervous graduates prepared — much like high school seniors across the country — for their walk down the aisle to “Pomp and Circumstance.” But these “seniors” were of a different ilk: they are residents of UCC-related Piedmont Crossing, an older adult community in…

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UCC-related Plymouth Harbor Residents are Rockin’ the Storybooks at Local Grade School

By Barb Powell | October 11, 2019

“A told B and B told C, ‘I’ll meet you at the top of the coconut tree.’ … Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Will there be enough room?” Last spring, snatches of story floated through the air of the Media Center at Bay Haven, a magnet school in Sarasota, Fla. Kindergarteners sat in rapt attention as…

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United Church Outreach Ministry Creates Opportunities for Neighbors Through Walking Program

By Barb Powell | October 11, 2019

Old and young, new neighbors or long-time residents — every Wednesday morning at 11 a.m., they don walking shoes and meet at United Church Outreach Ministry’s (UCOM) offices in Wyoming, Mich., for a jaunt around the neighborhood. The walking club was the brainchild of UCOM staff. When a weekly “Sit and Be Fit” class led…

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UCC-related Advocate Aurora Health Educator and Chaplain Buhuro Publishes Book on Spiritual Needs of African Americans

By CHHSM Staff | October 9, 2019

The Rev. Danielle J. Buhuro, D.Min., currently an ECPE certified educator at UCC-related Advocate South Suburban and Trinity Hospitals in Chicago, has just released a new book, Spiritual Care in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter — Examining the Spiritual and Prophetic Needs of African Americans in a Violent America. Published in the Cascade imprint by Wipf…

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Medicare Providing New Resources to Help Beneficiaries During Open Enrollment

By Guest Contributor | October 1, 2019

Medicare’s Open Enrollment Period is just two weeks away. From Oct. 15 to Dec. 7, beneficiaries can enroll in health and drug plans for 2020. But beginning today (Oct. 1), beneficiaries can start looking at new 2020 health & prescription plans online with the new and improved Medicare Plan Finder tool. There is a lot…

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MIT’s Coughlin to Keynote Fourth Annual Ruth Frost Parker Center Symposium on Abundant Aging

By Barb Powell | September 26, 2019

Joseph F. Coughlin, Ph.D., founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab, will keynote the Ruth Frost Parker Center for Abundant Aging’s 2019 Annual Symposium. The event takes place Oct. 11 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Renaissance Columbus Westerville-Polaris Hotel. Registration/check-in opens at 8 a.m. Coughlin, who teaches in MIT’s…

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CHHSM Survey Seeks Member Feedback to Help Plan Future Programs and Services

By CHHSM Staff | September 13, 2019

The UCC Council for Health and Human Service Ministries wants your feedback. All CHHSM members are invited to participate in an online survey to assess the value of current CHHSM programs and services in order for CHHSM to better serve its membership. “The CHHSM Board is seeking ways to more fully engage CHHSM members, and…

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From Resolution to Resolve

By Michael Readinger | September 13, 2019

The lack of affordable housing (2013), gun violence as a health issue (2017), the opioid crisis (2019). All of these are critical issues that the CHHSM Board, membership and staff have addressed via the UCC General Synod resolution process. Well, it is time to put the pedal to the metal, to walk the talk, and…

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‘With Such Hope, We Can Be Bold’

By Rev. Elyse Berry, DMin | September 13, 2019

In her poem, “The Summer Day,” Mary Oliver asks, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do/with your one wild and precious life?” I hear in Mary’s words an invitation to lean into that which gives life, energy, and wonder. For me, supporting others along their paths to healing and flourishing — personally and…

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