Barb Powell
Excitement for The Gathering: Many Gifts, One Spirit is building as a plethora of workshops are formulated for attendees. To be held March 24-26, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency in Indianapolis, The Gathering will draw some 500 attendees from the five participating faith traditions: Mennonite, Methodist, Presbyterian, Quaker, and United Church of Christ. Thirty-five workshops…
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Hoyleton Youth & Family Services, based in Fairview Heights, Ill., has a 130-year commitment to social justice. But recent events around the country and the world have heightened that commitment. As a CHHSM agency, Hoyleton approaches justice through a faith-based lens. So when executive staff members began creating and implementing a three-year holisitic leadership development…
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For the past seven years, CHHSM has partnered with the UCC’s Heartland Conference to offer a day long retreat for its local churches and its Designated Ministry Partners, which include several CHHSM agencies. That tradition continued Aug. 27, 2025, in a day-long workshop, “From Role to Soul: Exploring the Enneagram as a Sacred Tool.” The…
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For the Rev. Dr. Gregory Edwards and Pastor Denyse Edwards—co-founders of Resurrected Life UCC and Resurrected Community Development Corporation (RCDC) in Allentown, Pa.—Aug. 12, 2025, was a momentous day. After five years of both arduous and inspiring work and prayer, ground was broken on renovations to Resurrected CDC’s Children’s Academy. The Academy is a Pennsylvania…
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Plans are swiftly developing for the first-ever collaborative event between faith-based health and human service organizations. The Gathering: Many Gifts, One Spirit takes place March 24-26, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency in Indianapolis. Some 500 attendees are expected from the five participating faith traditions: Mennonite, Methodist, Presbyterian, Quaker, and United Church of Christ. Exciting workshop proposals…
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In early spring 2024, Alice Chin, a resident of Plymouth Place in LaGrange Park, Ill., started a small garden that grew into a full-fledge Horticulture Committee. Its first goal: farm-to-table fresh produce for Plymouth Place residents. Since then, the committee has expanded to include projects that not only beautify the grounds of Plymouth Place, but…
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For the second year in a row, the monarch butterflies have returned to Fairhaven Senior Services in Whitewater, Wis., to a welcoming group of residents. But this year, their accommodations in Wisconsin have gone up a few notches, thanks to Tena Engles, Fairhaven’s receptionist, unit clerk, and “Monarch Midwife.” Over the winter months, Engles applied…
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CHHSM has two leadership programs for current seminarians exploring calls to health and human service ministry: its Rev. Jerry Paul Scholar program and its Emerging Leader program. Following this summer’s UCC General Synod in Kansas City, Mo., two of the current participants — CHHSM Scholar the Rev. Breona Hawkins and Emerging Leader Cohort member the…
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From the opening words of her sermon during opening worship of the UCC’s 2025 General Synod in Kansas City, Mo., July 11, the Rev. Dr. Marilyn Pagán-Banks let delegates know that this sermon was different. Pagán-Banks, executive director of A Just Harvest in Chicago and a valued CHHSM board member and Nollau Leadership Institute graduate,…
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Eager participants in this year’s Nollau Leadership Institute class arrived at Bellwether Farm in Wakeman, Ohio, in May for the first retreat of the year. Held May 19-23, 2025, the retreat gathered people from across the UCC, from CHHSM organizations and chaplaincies to the UCC’s national setting, regional conferences, and seminaries. By week’s end, the…
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