The Local Church Ministry Team will be hosting a swap meet on July 8th at 6p Pacific via Zoom.

I have some hard news about the Camp Adams 2025 camping season: We have been advised by the County Health Inspector to stop using any of our buildings at Camp Adams until we can have mold inspections and remediation work done. This means we have to cancel Summer Camp, and may not be able to accommodate churches in the fall.

The world needs you to be the church now more than ever – and you never know who might see your bravery and join with you in the struggle for love and justice.

A service for Karl Vercouteren will be held Saturday, June 7th at 1:30pm.

Think ahead and find out about Juneteenth celebrations in your community so that you can support, advertise, and show up for these events. Maybe even sponsor a booth or gather volunteers!

As Pride gatherings throughout the cities of our conference begin to be scheduled, there will be many opportunities to show up in support of our queer beloved ones. They need to know we see them and stand with them

Camp Adams Executive Director, Natalie Lucker, and I are aware of the challenges some of you have had communicating with Camp Adams.

Pocatello UCC is hosting a Farewell Service on Thursday May 15 at 6pm. This will be part worship, part storytelling, and all Celebration.

Please update your records with our new mailing address!

Camp registration for summer at Camp Adams is in full swing! Register for camp by Friday, May 2nd to take advantage of Early Bird pricing

Join us on April 30th from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM for a Zoom Listening Session. The mission of the Local Church Ministry (LCM) is to encourage and support local churches in becoming vital, inclusive congregations where children, youth, and adults experience a strong sense of mission, unity, nurture, and justice.

Yes, please take action. Do it in whatever way you’re called to act. Bring as many people as you can with you through this valley of the shadow of death to the green pastures on the other side, and make each moment a referendum for the future you want sixty or a hundred years from now.

The Central Pacific and Pacific Northwest Conferences of the UCC are hiring a part-time position to effectively support the ministry of the Conferences with particular emphasis on support of the Committee on Ministry of the CPC and PNC and their important work with the authorization, support, and oversight of ministers.

As many of you already know, our Administrative Assistant, Debbie Jacober, will be retiring at the end of April. She has ministered among us for forty-four years, and we want to give her a good send-off! 

The Central Pacific Conference is partnering with six other regional church bodies to name our love of neighbors from other countries. Each of the seven judicatory leaders has endorsed this Statement on Immigration written by the ELCA Bishops in our region, and we invite Christians throughout Oregon to study the statement and endorse it as individuals. 

Boise First United Church of Christ, the Central Pacific Conference, and the wider United Church of Christ joyfully invite you to celebrate the installation of Rev. Josh Lee!

This is an important opportunity for us to Foster Stronger Connections by listening for where the Spirit is moving in our conference. It will give our Ministry Teams a better sense of where their energies should be spent, and it will allow the conference to better amplify the prophetic voices of Washington, Idaho, and Oregon.

Watch as the Rev. Josh Lee, Pastor of First Congregational UCC in Boise, proclaims the truth of God's love for God's LGTQ+ children, and unpacks the witness of Scripture for Representative Alfieri who questioned him at the Boise State Capitol last week.

This session is being hosted by our Justice and Witness Ministry Team, so come prepared to share the Justice and Witness activities you're doing in your local churches, and the places where you see a need for God's Justice in your communities. We know where two or three are gathered, the Holy Spirit will be there to recharge us for the ministries God calls us to!

I love the word “amplify” in our mission priority, because it’s a reminder that the conference is not the source of prophetic voice, but the amplification system for voices that already exist.