Keystone Conference

From Attending to Belonging: Nurturing Participation in Your Congregation
2026-04-09 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York)
Keystone Conference UCC is offering a special learning opportunity hosted by our ministry partners, Vanco and ACS Technologies (ACST) to support congregations in strengthening participation and connection within their churches. You’ll also hear about the discounted eGiving rates available to you because of our partnership.Many people attend worship, yet meaningful engagement grows when individuals find relationships, purpose, and belonging in the life of the congregation. This webinar will explore practical ways churches can encourage connection, service, and stewardship in everyday ministry.Join the team at Vanco and ACST as they share simple approaches churches of any size can implement, along with ways connected ministry tools can help leaders notice participation and respond with care.
What You’ll Learn:

Ways to invite people beyond attendance into participation
Discounted rates available through the partnership with Vanco and ACST
Practical ideas for building connection and community
Approaches to encourage serving and involvement
How stewardship grows from belonging
How ministry insights can support pastoral awareness
How connected eGiving can grow your ministry

Register now: https://watch.getcontrast.io/register/acst-from-attending-to-belonging-nurturing-participation-in-your-congregation-2

Clergy Convocation 2026
2026-04-14 - 2026-04-16 | Red Lion Hotel, Hershey/Harrisburg, 4751 Lindle Road, Harrisburg, 17111, United States
“That they may all be one” John 17:21
Red Lion Hotel, Hershey/Harrisburg
4751 Lindle Rd., Harrisburg, PA 17111
Full attendance qualifies for: 10 Contact Hours (Wed. only attendance qualifies for 5.5 hrs.)
Click here to register.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Shirley Mullen
Shirley Mullen, PhD served as the president of Houghton College for 15 years. She spent four decades in the work of faith-based liberal arts education as a professor, residential life director, chief academic officer, and president. Dr. Mullen wrote the 2024 book Claiming the Courageous Middle: Daring to Live and Work Together for a More Hopeful Future, published by Baker Academic. In that text she sets out an argument for how to step into the courageous place of “the middle” – her phrasing for “Catching a Vision for a Third Way of Being in the World” (Chapter 1). She focuses on the challenges of finding a third or middle way in the midst of today’s culture wars and pays careful attention to how to do this faithfully, reflecting often on her own Wesleyan background. Dr. Mullen is very excited to join us and engage in complex, challenging, and important conversations about finding our way forward in these days. We hope to see you there!

Team Up for Racial Justice Meeting
2026-04-23 17:30 - 19:00
Mark your calendars now for an important meeting meant to gather all Pennsylvania UCC folks working towards racial justice within the new Keystone Conference! Registration is necessary to receive the Zoom link, so register now at: https://tinyurl.com/4kzfu3nd. The Zachariah Walker Racial Justice Initiative is excited to join forces across the state in this sacred work!

Team Up for Racial Justice
2026-04-23 17:30 - 19:00
Folks with a passion for racial justice from across the conference are invited to come dream with us about how much we can do together! RSVP with the link below to receive the Zoom link for this visioning and planning meeting.
https://tinyurl.com/4kzfu3nd

Healthy Congregations: Equipping Lay Leaders for Such a Time as This
2026-04-26 14:00 - 17:00
Who is God calling you and your church to be? This online workshop will help us name together how God is calling us in these times, and reflect on the relationships that exist within your congregation. This includes relationships between congregants, pastor, and church leadership. We will explore ways in which healthy boundaries and healthy communication practices can enhance your church’s work and witness to the world.
Rev. Tara Barber has been serving as your Minister for Ministerial Support and Accountability for six years. She comes to this work as a lifelong Pacific NW UCCer, camper, and engaged lay leader, who participated in wider church ministries as a teenager and young adult, and later as a Youth Leader and companion to older adults. Ordained in 2001, she served as an Associate Pastor in Northern California and co-pastor in the Pacific NW, before turning her focus back to the wider church, working with COMs, developing a COP program, teaching Boundary Trainings and consulting around Intercultural Compassion locally and beyond the PNC. Continuing this work in her role on the MESA team, she works from her home in Seattle, gathering with family and venturing to the beach as often as possible
Register here: https://healthycongregations.eventbrite.com
(Please note – after hitting the register button, you are not done. Additional questions will follow.)
