UCC Roots
In March of 1889 a remarkable meeting was held at St. Peter’s Evangelical Church in St. Louis. Seventy people (60 men and 10 women) gathered to charter the Evangelischer Diakonessen-Verein von St. Louis, Mo. (Evangelical Deaconess Society of St. Louis, Mo). It was unusual to involve women in such gatherings. In that era women seldom…
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The American Missionary Association (AMA) is primarily remembered for it’s educational work among African Americans. However, in 1884 the AMA sent a missionary into the Cumberland Plateau in eastern Tennessee to found a school to provide liberal arts education, and offer vocational training in agriculture and regional crafts, for Appalachian rural youth. They called it…
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CHHSM President and CEO Jamar Doyle's March column reflects on being spiritually present and "showing up" every day. #BeAVoiceCHHSM www.chhsm.org/news/show-up/
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Life is full of surprises, if you show up every day. – LeVar Burton In the fall of 2019, I was listening to the “Sound of Ideas,” a local program on Cleveland’s NPR station. On this day award-...