The leadership at Wichita UCC has called Rachael to serve as their Transitional Minister.

In the United Church of Christ, we pride ourselves on our autonomy. We are proud of our local churches, and rightly so. But as much as we are a local people, we are also a covenant people.

By the time I arrived in Kansas-Oklahoma, Art Foster had already retired, but his legacy is well known. The lives he touched extend far beyond the two states of this Conference.

Gilbert Baker was born in a small Kansas town and left Kansas as soon as he could. No wonder.

While not every church in KO is ONA (Open and Affirming,) EVERY one of our congregations have members that support, love, advocate, and care for LGBTQI+ family and friends.

Over the years, Church Growth strategies have changed and we approach welcome and hospitality in different ways today. But sometimes old ways need to be revisited.

it’s so much easier to literally ignore the reality of the collective actions of our country than it is to own them and honestly deal with the outcome.

At the end of the movie The Prom, a 2020 straight-to-Netflix release, the antagonist, played by Kerry Washington, says to her newly-out daughter about her sexuality, “I just don’t want you to have a hard life.”

Disaster Ministries isn’t about churches being destroyed, that’s what insurance is for. This work is about responding to disasters in a community.

Every two years in the life of the United Church of Christ, delegates from across our denomination gather as a community to experience General Synod.

Do you love your work? It’s a question many of us wrestle with as work takes up a significant part of our time on Earth.

We recognize those who are graduating in 2021. Congratulations, graduates!

With gratitude for all those who have applied to be considered for the role of Kansas-Oklahoma Conference Minister, we are pleased to report that we are ready to move into the interview phase of our search

I call it the Love Factorial Greeting: “Let love be multiplied to you!”

Don Miller has a long history with the Kansas-Oklahoma Conference, and he doesn’t shy from supporting a ministry when there is a need.

I am not as visible these days in our most visible places, eNEWS and on Facebook, but that makes space for others to be more visible.

We are pleased to announce that the Rev. Phil Hodson, pastor of Wichita UCC, has been called as the next Conference Minister of the South Central Conference in the United Church of Christ.

As your Conference Disaster Coordinator, I will be focusing on two things in the coming months.

We, a "so-called" Christian nation, seem to have forgotten the commandment that Jesus gave us: "Love one another.”