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The Synod itself is composed of delegates, either clergy or lay, from the 36 conferences of the UCC, apportioned in a manner similar to states in the United States House of Representatives, with each conference assigned a minimum of three delegates regardless of its membership size as a proportion of the national membership.
The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a socially liberal mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical and confessional roots in the Congregational, Restorationist, Continental Reformed, and Lutheran traditions, and with approximately 4,600 churches and 712,000 members.
During the 1960s through the 1990s, the NACCC slowly built a network of, or formed alliances with, voluntarily-supported missions and agencies to replace those lost in the UCC merger. One distinction between the NACCC and UCC is the former body's refusal to engage in political activity on behalf of its constituent churches.
(UCC)--congregation founded after 1957. (union)--congregation resulting from merger of former CC, E&R, and UCC congregations. *--indicates congregation endorses the "Open and Affirming" program of the Open and Affirming Coalition of the United Church of Christ , a recognized ministry in the UCC that advocates for the full inclusion of LGBTQ ...
The Merom Conference Center began as Union Christian College in 1859 and is now used as a camp and conference center for the Indiana-Kentucky Conference of the United Church of Christ (UCC). It is located in Merom, Indiana, on the Wabash River. The Merom Conference Center is a member of the Outdoor Ministry Association, UCC.
The Calvin Synod is an acting conference of the United Church of Christ, composed entirely of Reformed, or Calvinist congregations of Hungarian descent. Unlike much of the UCC, the Synod is strongly conservative on doctrinal and social matters, and many members of the "Faithful and Welcoming Movement," a renewal group acting to move the UCC in a more orthodox direction, belong to this body.
The 2001 "Mutual respect within the faith community " resolution passed by General Synod XXIII "calls upon all levels of the United church of Christ, the national covenanted ministries, conferences, associations, and individual congregations of the denomination to be sensitive to the needs and concerns of a church with such a diverse population and difference of theological beliefs and to ...
There are six modern Conference Associations in the Michigan Conference UCC: the Covenant Association, which is located in central Michigan; the Detroit Metropolitan Association, located in the southeast section of the lower peninsula; the Eastern Association, located in the thumb; the Grand West Association, which is located in the central section toward the west of the state; the Southwest ...