Events

The Central Atlantic Conference (CAC) of the United Church of Christ (UCC) convenes for the 58th Annual Meeting taking place from Tuesday, October 4 – Wednesday, October 5, via Zoom, and in hybrid format (both by Zoom and in-person) at The Heldrich Hotel & Conference Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey from Thursday, October 6 through Saturday, October 8.

Everyone in the Central Atlantic Conference is invited to join together to ask the question…

“Is It Well With Your Soul?”

Please reference: CACUCC Annual Meeting -OR- Group Code: 546584

Please note that you will be charged $179 plus taxes and fees, per person, per night, upon checkout. You will be responsible for any incidental charges related to your room, incuding parking fees. Registration for the Annual Meeting is $100. This registration fee includes dinner on Friday October 7 as well breakfast and lunch on Saturday 8. Please contact Ginger Glasser at the Conference Office (410.788.4190 Ext 0 or admin@cacucc.org) with any questions. Thank you!

—SPECIAL GUEST FOR OUR ANNUAL MEETING—

Bishop Yvette Flunder

Founder and Presiding Bishop

Fellowship of Affirming Ministries

Rev. Dr. Yvette Flunder, a San Francisco native, has served her call through prophetic action and ministry for justice for over thirty years. The call to “blend proclamation, worship, service, and advocacy on behalf of those most marginalized in church and in society” led to the founding of the City of Refuge United Church of Christ in 1991. In 2003, Rev. Dr. Flunder was consecrated Presiding Bishop of The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, a multi-denominational coalition of over 100 primarily African American Christian leaders and laity. She is a graduate of the Certificate of Ministry and Master of Arts programs at Pacific School of Religion and received her Doctor of Ministry from San Francisco Theological Seminary.

Bishop Flunder is a DEMOS board member and Senior Fellow at Auburn Theological Seminary and Andover Newton Seminary. She has also served as an Adjunct Professor and speaker at Pacific School of Religion and numerous seminaries and universities including Auburn, Brite Divinity, Chicago Theological, Columbia University, Drew, Duke, Eden, Howard, Lancaster, New York Theological, and Yale. She is also an award-winning gospel music artist and author of Where the Edge Gathers: A Theology of Homiletic and Radical Inclusion.

— Official Call to 58th Annual Meeting —

The Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Central Atlantic Conference of the United Church of Christ will convene beginning on Tuesday, October 4, 2022, and will be in session until the conclusion of the Closing Service of Worship Saturday October 8, 2022.

Each member Church of the Conference is entitled to representation at this annual meeting by the chief lay officer designated by the local church and two lay delegates, plus an additional lay delegate for each additional 500 members, or major fraction thereof, above an initial 300 members, and one additional lay delegate provided such delegate is under thirty years of age.