This picture shows our outgoing and incoming Moderator. I can't say enough about the work that Alissa Marquis, from United in Santa Fe, did throughout this past year. I am eternally grateful for her leadership, and find it hard to say goodbye to her. But pass the torch she must, and to a fine leader himself - one Brendan Mahoney from First Congregational UCC in Phoenix.
Here are Alfonso Escarena and Luis Gonzalez. Luis is the organizing pastor of TOX (The Omega Xeneration) Ministries, a bilingual Hispanic new church start in Phoenix, nested at the Church of the Beatitudes, that announced: a.) they will affiliate with the United Church of Christ in the coming year and b.) they will multiply in the coming year.
And speaking of Affliating, here are members of two churches - Black Mountain United Church of Christ and First Christian/United Church of Christ in Las Cruces NM - in the very moment following the vote to affiliate both of these churches in the United Church of Christ. What an incredibily joy-filled moment this was! Blessings to them both, and to their pastors Jayne Hubbard and Linda Mervine.
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