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2026 Annual Gathering Lodging Options
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2026 Annual Gathering Lodging Options

A limited number of rooms have been reserved at the following locations for your convenience. All options are available on a first-come, first-served basis, so we encourage you to book early.

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Pride 2026 is Coming!
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Pride 2026 is Coming!

Pride celebrations are coming soon and we would love to publicize again where we are celebrating so we can show up repeatedly to let our rainbow siblings know we see them and support them!

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The Installation of Rev. Sam Holland
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The Installation of Rev. Sam Holland

Cedar Hills United Church of Christ, the Central Pacific Conference, and the wider United Church of Christ joyfully invite you to celebrate the installation of Rev. Sam!

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The Installation of Rev. Christopher Hayward
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The Installation of Rev. Christopher Hayward

United Church of Christ Congregational of The Dalles, the Central Pacific Conference, and the wider United Church of Christ joyfully invite you to celebrate the installation of Rev. Christopher (Chris) Hayward!

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Palm Sunday Action!
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Palm Sunday Action!

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.

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The Empire of Love
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The Empire of Love

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?

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Fast and Pray (and Keep Loving)
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Fast and Pray (and Keep Loving)

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. 

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Giving Tuesday is Here!
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Giving Tuesday is Here!

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!

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Important CPC Clergy Getaway Survey
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Important CPC Clergy Getaway Survey

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.

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Giving Tuesday and the CPC
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Giving Tuesday and the CPC

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.

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Love Knows No Borders
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Love Knows No Borders

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.

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Join the Camp Adams Alumni Group!
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Join the Camp Adams Alumni Group!

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.

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Northwest Clergy Speak Out for Peace and Justice in Troubled Times
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Northwest Clergy Speak Out for Peace and Justice in Troubled Times

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.

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In Solidarity with Portland: Statement of the Central Pacific Conference, UCC
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In Solidarity with Portland: Statement of the Central Pacific Conference, UCC

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.

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Downtown Portland & WyEast/Mt. Hood - Image by Tyler Connoley