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NOTE: The CAC Youth Event has been cancelled due to low registration

(posted 6/1/09) 

 

John is back from visiting Africa, click on the journal to read about his trip. 

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The Reverend Barbara Kershner Daniel, pastor of UCC Evangelical Reformed Church in Frederick, Maryland, brought a volunteer work group to participate in the first week of the rebuild. The slides provide a glimpse into the week with Barbara sharing her feelings and observations about the work of rebuilding in Little Woods.

Click on the link below for the slide show with narration of part of the first week of the
  CWS Ecumenical Rebuild in New Orleans.
LWforUCC.swf   

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John Deckenback (Conference Minister), John Thomas (UCC General Minister and President) and Rev. Michael C. Murphy (new pastor of Peoples Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington, DC) at Palm Sunday services. (posted 4/7/09)

 

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  Conference to Host German Vicars

  This June a group of ministerial students will visit the conference, primarily the congregations of the Catoctin Association in and around Frederick, MD. Led by Thomas Vesterling, our former summer intern in 2007, ten vicars will visit among several congregations before heading off to General Synod in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

to read more about this visit, click on the International Partnerships tab above, then click on Germany. (posted 03/25/09)

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 Check out this article about Wellspring, on the UCC website!    "Praise God for keeping us going through this effort, and thanks to all of you who have helped."

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Bishop Dennis Madden speaks as Maryland Governor, Martin O'Malley, listens and John Deckenback holds up a "Repeal" sign.

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 Did you ever think you would see the Inauguration of an African American in your lifetime?

 This question, which acknowledges the deepest wounds and shortcomings of American history and culture, has been asked over and over again in recent days...

Pinch me – but yes I have! A long with a million or two on the National Mall. It was a marvelous weekend of celebrations. I was delighted to be one of those specks on the Mall that you see in the satellite image of the January 20th. Look closely, I am close to the Jumbotron near the Third Street crossing. click here for more of this story

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Courtesy photo by Catholic Review Staff/Owen Sweeney III

Interfaith group works to end death penalty
http://www.fredericknewspost.com /sections/art_life/display.htm?StoryID=85588 

 From: John R Deckenback
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 9:10 PM
To: cac clergy
Cc: CAC Board
Subject: Maryland Death Penalty

 Yesterday I joined Peter Nord from the Baltimore Presbytery as we testified before Maryland's Commission on Capital Punishment.

 Following my oral presentation the Commission's chair asked if I had ever counseled with the victim of a capital crime.  Sadly, I answered yes...that in my pastoral role I had. 

 Another question led to a lively Bible study.  I shared copies of General Synod resolutions on the death penalty and a copy of Byron Eshelman's groundbreaking 1962 book DEATH ROW CHAPLAIN.   Eshelman , a UCC minister, wrote the book after ten years as Chaplain to California's death row prisoners to share how he had become an opponent of capital punishment.

Baltimore Sun Article

Death Penalty Testimony

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