Sunday is the date of our Annual Meeting. It is also CHHSM (Council for Health & Human Services Ministries) Sunday in the UCC.
Right after worship, you will receive our Annual Report, which is a celebration of our year in ministry. In almost every report, you will see some aspect of the amazing commitments our individual congregation made this year to Outreach projects, programs and giving. Each item represents the ways that we makes a difference in the world on behalf of our members.
What you won't see are all of the ways we make a difference through our various partnerships and ministries in the United Church of Christ, like our partnership with CHHSM. This is a partnership of UCC-related ministries of health and human services throughout the whole country: hospitals; nursing homes; housing for seniors, troubled teens, people who are mentally ill or who have other challenges; clinics for poor people and more. These institutions and agencies were founded by our Pilgrim and Evangelical & Reformed ancestors and by UCC congregations and missions all along the way.
In the New York Conference, we have a number of CHHSM partners: United Church Home Society in Orchard Park and 3 United Church Homes affordable housing communities in Olean, Chautauqua and Fredonia.
TO find out more about CHHSM and about their amazing work on our behalf: http://www.chhsm.org/news/2011/12/20/health-and-human-service-sunday-to-be-observed-jan-29.260826
And, while you are exploring and learning about the work they do, CELEBRATE, that through amazing partnerships in the UCC, you are making a difference!
Blessings for the week ahead, Laura Lee
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