After listening carefully to feedback, we are reimagining Clergy Clusters for 2026 — not as another meeting to attend, but as a quarterly space of renewal, encouragement, and shared wisdom for actively serving clergy.

Since late fall, Together Lab and ecumenical groups around the country have been joining friends from ISAIAH in Minnesota to begin planning a series of coordinated actions in the afternoon that draw from the historical biblical context of the first Palm Sunday—  a counter-protest to the imperial parade of empire that took place in Jerusalem during the Passover festival.

Please complete the online review by March 22. Tyler is committed to pray over all of the reviews through Holy Week if they have been submitted by this March 22 deadline!

I’d like to invite you into a theological practice that has been helping me think more deeply about the call of Jesus in our current age. What happens if we begin talking about the Empire of God, the Empire of Heaven, and the Empire of Love?

We live in dangerous times, and it’s often hard to know how to show up. I’m thankful for all the ways you demonstrate your membership in the Empire of Love. Each of you is finding ways to love the people closest to you, and be the Church God needs for this time and this place. 

Let’s make our collective impact known as we share with our neighbors and create a more hopeful world through our ministries in this Conference and beyond!

We would like to offer opportunities for renewal that meet your needs. This survey will help us to know more about what fills your tank and shape a Clergy Getaway experience that will enable you to pause, take a deep breath and unwind.

Beth’s Ordination will be at 3pm, and you are welcome to join the celebration of dance before and refreshments following.

Last year, the Central Pacific Conference joined a growing global movement known as Giving Tuesday.  This annual event is dedicated to boosting radical generosity, held on the Tuesday after Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The idea behind Giving Tuesday is to set aside a single day to counter consumerism by giving back.

Tyler is in Washington DC with twenty other Conference Ministers, carrying postcards with stories from members of our churches of the impact of our cruel government. These are just a few of those stories.

Camp Adams is forming an official alumni group! To get involved, visit the Camp Adams website and fill out the alumni group interest form. Submitting the form does not obligate you to participate in or volunteer for anything—it just gets you on the list to receive updates and stay in the loop. Over the next few months, we’ll develop and offer clear pathways to get involved both on the ground at camp and remotely.

Clergy members and church congregants from three states held a mid-day prayer and song vigil in downtown Medford, Oregon on Sunday, September 28, 2025 to express their deep concern with growing polarization, hate, violence and victimization that is traumatizing low-income and marginalized persons across our nation and the world.

We, leaders of the Central Pacific Conference of the United Church of Christ, met September 26-28 onsite in Medford, Oregon, and online October 4, 2025 for our Annual Gathering. We came from Oregon, Idaho, and Washington, from rural, suburban, and urban communities, from large and small churches, comprised of people of many races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, and political affiliations. While here, we learned of President Trump’s plan to deploy federal troops to Portland, authorizing them to use “full force if necessary.” After prayer and discernment, we raise our voices to say no to this deployment.

This resolution calls on the United Church of Christ to stand in solidarity with religious communities, academic researchers, and medical providers throughout the United States and across the globe in demanding that psychedelic and entheogenic plant and fungus-based medicines be decriminalized and made available for further research by scholars and healers for their beneficial and therapeutic capacities.

Women of the Central Pacific and Pacific NorthwestConferences are invited to attend the UCC Northwest Regional Women’s Retreat, taking place at Skamania Lodge November7-9, 2025.

The Conference Minister's week in D.C. will culminate with a public witness and prayer service on October 29th to boldly proclaim a message of love and justice.

The Way of the Masks is a Native-led journey of ceremony and resistance to protect ancient forests, salmon habitat, and tribal sovereignty. From September 7 to 20, Indigenous leaders from Se’Si’Le and the Lummi Nation’s House of Tears Carvers will travel over 1,600 miles across the Northwest, bringing carved cedar masks that honor the sacred balance of life, called xaalh.

Registration is NOW OPEN for the 2025 Annual Gathering!

The Authorization Team of the Committee on Ministry wants to make sure we have enough delegates to have a quorum for the vote, and your registration will help us know if we need to make some phone calls.