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All Association Spring Meeting, 2024

Our All Association Spring Meeting in 2024 will be held on Saturday, April 20, at First United Church of Christ, 217 E. High St., Ebensburg PA 15931, from 10 AM to 3 PM. Registrations are due April 10, 2024. The focus of our meeting will be on the work of the Keystone Working Group. We welcome the Conference Ministers (or their designees) from the four Pennsylvania United Church of Christ Conferences with us. We will also have a time for workshops and for our Associations to meet. Here is a schedule of the time:

  • 9:30-10:00 Registration - Narthex
  • 10:00-10:30 Welcome, Announcements, and Opening Worship – Sanctuary
  • 10:30-12:30 Keystone Conversation – Sanctuary
  • 12:30-1:15 Lunch – Fellowship Hall
  • 1:15-2:15 Workshops – Classrooms
  •      Racial Justice: Rev. Roberto Ochoa
  •      A2A: Robin Stemple
  •      Youth Ministry: Rev. Shannon Garrett-Doege
  •      Search & Call: Revs. Jerry McCuller & Linda Miller-Pretz
  • 2:15-2:45 Association Meetings – Classrooms
  • 2:45-3:00 Closing Worship & Departure - Sanctuary

Click here for the registration flier. Please detach the bottom section and send your check for $30.00 (made out to Penn West Conference) to Penn West Conference, 312 South Maple Ave., Suite PWC, Greensburg PA 15601. The registration fee includes the cost of your lunch. You may also register online at https://tithe.ly/event-registration/#/8427242; the cost of online registration is $32.00. Thank you for registering for our All Association Spring Meeting!


2024 Clergy Convocation

The 2024 Clergy Convocation will be held from May 7-9 at the Double Tree Inn, 2400 Willow Street Pike, Lancaster PA. The theme is “Healing Together: Healing Me, Healing You.” We have already been awarded a Brown grant to help our pastors who attend with their expenses. Our time together for Clergy Convocation will focus on rest, renewal, connection and healing. Healing in our ministries and our world often begins with healing within. We know how important it is for clergy to have time away from their ministry settings and to find support. We will have times dedicated for worship, theological reflection, gatherings of affinity groups, connecting with folks from other Conferences, and free time. For more details, visit Clergy Convocation 2024: Healing Together: Healing Me, Healing You - PSEC. To register, visit https://clergyconvo24.eventbrite.com. It will also be an opportunity for us to explore together what it may mean for us to consider uniting together as a Keystone Conference (Keystone Project - PSEC).


2024 Annual Meeting

The Annual Meeting of the Penn West Conference is scheduled for June 7-9 at the Penn Stater in State College. Take a look at the beautiful facility where we’ll be going: The Penn Stater Hotel & Conference Center | The Official Site! It will be an opportunity for all four UCC Pennsylvania Conferences to come together and enjoy fellowship time with one another. On June 7-8, we will plan to attend to our own Conference business separate from the other Conferences and will also enjoy some programmatic and fellowship time with all the Conferences together. On June 9, we will look forward to worshiping together and welcoming United Church of Christ General Minister and President, the Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia Thompson, who is scheduled to preach for us that morning. We hope to have June 9 as a “laity Sunday” in our churches like we used to do when we met over a Sunday morning and provided churches with a sermon that connected with what the Conference was doing. If you are concerned about the cost of attending, please be in touch with the Conference Office and we can see what we can do to help. We don’t want cost to be a reason why people don’t attend the meeting. Please plan to save the dates and start sharing the good news about the 2024 Annual Meeting! Also, to learn more about the proposed Keystone Conference, please visit Keystone Project - PSEC.


Prayers for our Partners in the Philippines

We give thanks to God for the partnership that Penn West Conference has with the Northwest Luzon Conference of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines. We ask that you continue to remember to support them our SHEEP Fund (Sustaining Hope for Educational Expenses in the Philippines). Gifts to the SHEEP Fund may be made electronically using the donate button on our homepage, and/or by sending a check to the Conference, with SHEEP Fund in the memo. Thank you for all the efforts you are doing to share God’s love across the globe!


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Welcome to the PWC Website!

Welcome to the Penn West Conference website! On this site, you will find insights, resources, materials, and links that highlight the ministries of the United Church of Christ in the Penn West Conference. We're glad that you are visiting us!

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Blessings!

Rev. David Ackerman
Conference Minister

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