Every Moment Filled With Opportunities
Contact Persons for Follow Up

The annual meeting is a great place to renew friendships.

No one had to look far at the 2004 Annual Meeting to find "something to do, something to learn, someone wonderful to meet".

Listed below are some of the resource persons who led Learning Communities and Forums. You may learn how to contact them by e-mailing office@uccmetrosuffolk.org.

• Can the Beloved Community Be Built on Fear? An Analysis of the USA Patriot Act
  Mark J. Lukens, pastor of the Bethany Congregational Church
  
  
• Building the Beloved Community: Counting the Cost of Joy and Discipleship
  Gloria Nixon-Pone, Doctor of Ministry student at New York Theological Seminary and member of the Congregational Church of South Hempstead
  
  
• God's Call to Mission and the Struggle for Justice: A Global Reality
  Lawrence A. Q. Burnley, Office for Racial/Ethnic Relations for Global Ministries of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ
  
  
• Parish Nursing: A Ministry of Health and Wholeness
  Gayle Donahue, Parish Nurse Program, Cleveland , OH
  
  
• Wineskins for the 21 st Century: Producing New Wine for Your Church
  Corey Keys, pastor of the West Bloomfield Congregational Church; Mark Lawson, pastor of the United Church of Christ in Bayberry; Tomi Jacobs, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Gloversville; Henry T. Simmons, pastor of Saint Albans Congregational Church
  
  
• Same Sex Marriage Forum
  Mike Schuenemeyer, Executive for Health and Wholeness Advocacy and Minister for HIV/AIDS and LGBT Concerns of the United Church of Christ ; Adrienne Brockway, Regional Coordinator, Same Sex Marriage Get-Out-The-Vote Initiative
  
  
• New York School of Ministry: Classroom experience, independent study, spiritual direction and supervised ministry training
  Mark Lawson, pastor of the United Church of Christ in Bayberry, Liverpool, NY and dean of New York School of Ministry