CHHSM Annual Meeting 2008

Speakers and Highlights

Keynote Speaker: The Rev. John Thomas
The Rev. John H. Thomas is General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ. He was elected at the 1999 General Synod and, as General Minister and President, he is the presiding officer of the five-member Collegium of Officers, charged with the care and nurture of the spiritual life of the Church.

The Rev. Thomas was ordained in 1975 and served UCC congregations in Connecticut and Pennsylvania for sixteen years. In 1991 he was appointed Assistant to the President of the United Church of Christ for Ecumenical Concerns. In that role he represented the UCC in theological dialogues and conciliar bodies, served as the ecumenical representative to the General Board of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and was instrumental in the development of the full communion relationship between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and three Reformed churches, the Reformed Church in America, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the UCC.

The Rev. Thomas is a graduate of Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and Yale University Divinity School. He studied at the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland in 1988 and is the author of numerous articles on ecumenical issues. He has received honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees from Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis, United Theological Seminary in New Brighton, Minnesota, and Yankton College in South Dakota.

Plenary Session: The Faith Advantage: Exploring the Interplay between Faith and Work
CHHSM's Walking the Talk consulting team's interactive plenary will mine our collective wisdom about the ways in which faith-based organizations effectively integrate faith and work to create healthy organizational cultures and distinctive identities in the marketplace.

The Walking the Talk team includes CHHSM's Director of Consulting Services Daniel Pryfogle; Vince Rubino, a long-time CHHSM leader now president of Cygnetec LLC; and Catalyst Consulting President Leslie Yerkes.

Worship Preacher: The Rev. Stephen Camp
The Rev. Stephen Camp is Southern Conference Minister and Executive of the Southern Conference of the UCC. He has also served as Associate Executive Minister of the UCC's Local Church Ministries and pastored local churches in Chicago and Dayton, Ohio. The Rev. Camp is experienced in health and human service ministries and has been a residence manager for two 202 HUD housing units of Evangelical Health System in Chicago and executive director of the South Side Health Project of the UCC, Illinois Conference. A native of Connecticut, the Rev. Camp is a graduate of Bethune-Cookman University and the Chicago Theological Seminary.

CHHSM Store
CHHSM's group purchasing consortium, CHHSM Store, provides significant savings for CHHSM members on business supplies, equipment, furnishings and services--nearly everything your ministry purchases. CHHSM Store also offers a national employee discount program with savings on purchases CHHSM member ministry employees.

On Friday, our CHHSM Store partner, Care Purchasing Services, Inc., and an array of vendors, will attend the Annual Meeting to consult with you about your ministry's needs. You'll also want to participate in the CHHSM Store raffle!