Church Development & Vitality Committee Newsletter

St. John's and United Evangelical UCC Mission Trip

Pictured are the youth and adults from St. John's and United Evangelical U.C.C Churches. They are leaving for Deer Lodge Tn. where they will work with the Morgan-Scott project to improve houses for disabled persons. Our prayers go with them. The trip is scheduled for Aug. 1st - 8th, 2009.

If you would like to see more pictures please contact Rev. Cathy Oatman.

St John's UCC Vacation Bible School 2009 Pictures

Click Here to see the rest of the pictures.

News Update:

  It is with great sadness that we report that the Rev. Katherine Fisk passed away Sunday, July 26 from       stomach cancer. Rev. Fisk recently retired as pastor of the United Church of Christ of Annapolis.

A memorial service to celebrate the life of the Rev. Katherine Fisk was held on Thursday, July 30th, at 7:30 p.m.  The service is being held at the United Church of Christ of Annapolis, 6-8 Carvel Circle, Edgewater, MD. 21037-1005

The Rev. Katherine M. Fisk

Please Visit Katherine's Memorial page @ Chesapeake UCC for more information.

Check out more upcoming events & news by reading the

newsletter/news/events pages from the Churches & Ministries below:

"The United Endeavor" ~ United Evangelical UCC in Canton

"People's to People" ~ People's Church of Dover

"The Herald" ~ First and St. Stephen's in Baltimore

"HUC Electron Newsletter" ~ Heritage UCC in Baltimore

"The Chimes" ~ Immanuel Church of Christ in Catonsville

"The Webster Word" ~ Webster UCC in Havre de Grace

"Mark Our World" ~ St. Marks UCC in Baltimore

"The Spirit" ~ The United Church Of Christ Of Annapolis

"Amazing Grace" ~ Grace UCC in Federal Hill

Newsletter page ~ United Ministries - Earl's Place

Events Page ~ Christ UCC in Locust Point

Events Page ~ Immanuel UCC in Cambridge

Monthly Info Page ~ New Ark UCC

News & Events ~ Columbia United Christian Church

Chesapeake Association Bylaws:

To view a copy of the Bylaws of the Chesapeake Association please Click Here.

Chesapeake Association Articles of Incorporation:

As of November 07, 2008 the Chesapeake Association has been re-incorporated. Steve Lauer, President of the Assoc. Council, submitted the paperwork to the State of Maryland for reinstating the incorporation of the Association. Click Here to view the letter from the state of Maryland.

EXCITING SOCIAL NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY  

The UCC launched a fantastic "facebook"esque social networking site on Mar 31. It will provide us UCCers with a great opportunity to connect with others. So in order to get things started, Jeff has created a group on the site that he would love to encourage Baltimore City UCCers to sign up and chat with him and others. The group is Baltimore City UCC churches. Jeff is hopeful that this will be a great place for us to have an ongoing conversation about how we support one another as people doing Urban ministry in Baltimore City. We can share event information, Evangelism successes (and failures) and just plain strategize together about how the UCC can be involved in the healing of our city. The link is below:   http://community.ucc.org/Groups/Baltimore_City_UCC_churches

From: Jeffery Hawks @ First United UCC in Canton.