Catching Up

Its been too long since I last posted, and some very important things have happened.

We have established our Lay Academy with an inaugural weekend that by all accounts was a tremendous success.

We have celebrated the full affiliation of two congregations new to the United Church of Christ: Black Mountain United Church of Christ and First Christian United Church of Christ. They have been declared churches in good standing of the Southwest Conference!

I attended the final sermon of my mentor and spiritual father, the Rev. Dr. Sam Mann (if you attended my Installation, you will remember him as the preacher for the day).

Enjoy the pictures I accrued from a very full, very exciting, very inspiring last two weeks:
The sign at the Las Cruces church: Disciples and UCC - Partners indeed;

Lee Albertson presents the certificate of Affiliation the Pastor Linda Mervin:

The sun sets as Black Mountain shares a meal in their newly dedicated courtyard:

The Children at Black Mountian sing a song they wrote about being 'affiliates;'

SWC Moderator Brendan Mahoney hands the certificate of Affiliation to Pastor Jayne Hubbard at Black Mountain UCC;

My mentor Sam and his wife Bev, draped in a star quilt given to him by the daugther of Leonard Peltier;

Rev. Dr. Sam Mann preaches his final sermon;

Alice Hunt delivering the inaugural lecture at the SWC Lay Academy;

the first class of the SWC lay academy;

Mimi and Jane, students at the SWC Lay Academy;