Rocky Mountain Conference

Covenanting Dinner for Juniper Formation
2025-09-21 16:00 - 17:30 UTC
Juniper Formation UCC Covenanting Communion Dinner
THIS Sunday, September 21, 2025
4:00 – 5:30 pm MDT
Onsite: Wash Park UCC @ Mosaic, 7150 Montview Blvd, Denver, CO 80220. Free parking is available in the lot at E 17th Ave & Quebec St.
Online: Zoom
You are invited to join the ordained and lay ministers of Juniper Formation UCC in a Covenanting Communion Dinner.
Please RSVP by Sunday, 9/21 at 8:00 am MDT, and let us know if you will be joining us onsite or online.
Dinner will be served and we have planned to feed 50 people. If our numbers exceed that, we will encourage mindful participation in dinner, believing that God will provide and none will be hungry.
Juniper Formation UCC became a local church of the United Church of Christ in 2021, in the midst of the Covid Pandemic.
We’ve waited for a time when we could all be together to covenant with our ordained and lay ministers. You are invited to join us in a communion meal and anointing ritual as we covenant together in the priesthood of all believers. Zoom participants will be invited into the ritual part of the evening, please come prepared with communion elements.
Thank you for your support as we’ve started a new church. We hope you can join us in this celebration.

International Peace Day Liturgy at MVUC
2025-09-21 10:00 - 12:00
MVUC is celebrating International Peace Day (Sept. 21) with a guest speaker: Ms. Nyadak Pal, an immigrant from South Sudan, share her story as a child refugee who fled from the Sudanese civil war with her family and eventually was accepted into refugee resettlement in the USA. Ms. Pal will also share about her peace foundation that serves the South Sudanese community in Denver and in South Sudan.

Worship begins at 10:00am and will be an informal Coffee Shop worship with a shortened liturgy.

Mountain View United Church
10700 E Evans Ave, Aurora, CO 80014

Remembering Rev. Harriott Quin
2025-09-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Community UCC, 2650 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO, United States
Rev. Harriott Quin, a member of Community UCC and retired UCC minister, died on September 9th, 2025 surrounded by her loved ones. A memorial service will be held at 2 PM on September 20th, 2025 at Community United Church of Christ, 2650 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305. A reception will follow the service. All are welcome to celebrate this extraordinary woman’s life. In lieu of flowers her family requested donations to Earthjustice, a non-profit organization. Her obituary is posted here on the RMC Blog.

Prophetically Reimagining the Church Conference
2025-09-19 08:00 - 2025-09-20 17:00
This exciting conference is currently being organized by Juniper Formation. To learn more and register, please use this link to visit the event website.

Communications Office Hours
2025-09-18 14:00 - 15:30
This is your opportunity to ask questions and share your insights about any and all matters pertaining to church communications. Possible discussion topics could include: an introduction to using Slack; creating reels for social media; using free content creation tools like Canva or Mailchimp; designing newsletters or social media posts; and more!
Our first session will be on Thursday, September 18th from 2 PM to 3:30 PM. Feel free to drop in and ask questions or share your thoughts any time during that window.
These office hours are happening via Zoom and hosted by the RMC’s Director of Communications, Allison Radomski. I’m asking that folks please register (via this link) so that I can have a sense for what kinds of questions and concerns you might be bringing to these sessions. Thank you!

Clergy Conversation Series on Addiction & Families: Family Matters/Families Matter - Part II
2025-09-18 13:30 - 17:00 | Zoom
Part II – For this 2nd part of this 3-part series, we’ll continue to learn from Erica Poellot & Dee-Dee Stout as they open this conversation with these questions: How do we support our loved ones without enabling their drug use? Or does that even really matter? Join us as we take a deep dive into the many options families have today beyond the traditional intervention that not only is rarely effective but often has lasting negative effects which can devastate families sometimes forever.
Please click here to register.
Dates:

Part One: Sep 11, 2025 01:30 PM MT
Part Two: Sep 18, 2025 01:30 PM MT
Part Three: Sep 25, 2025 01:30 PM MT

MID Spiritual Support (MESA)
2025-09-18 13:30 - 15:00 | Online
This is a virtual event happening via Zoom. Please use this link to register.

RACIAL JUSTICE TRAINING with SNEUCC
2025-09-16 08:00 - 2025-09-17 17:00 | Online
Join this Racial Justice Training for Authorized Ministers brought to you by the Southern New England Conference of the UCC. Click here to learn more and register.

Older Adult Ministry Conference
2025-09-16 00:00 - 2025-09-19 23:59
Join POAMN September 16-19 at Frasier Retirement Community in Boulder, Colorado.
We welcome ministry leaders, chaplains, and lay leaders to learn fresh perspectives on older adult ministry. Come ready to be inspired with new ideas to implement. Leave with tools to deepen your spiritual connection to serving older adults in your faith community.
The workshops will help you address emerging challenges and needs of older adults, caregivers, and faith communities.
To learn more and register, please visit poamn.org/conference/

Ordination & Installation of Whitney Janzen-Pankratz
2025-09-14 17:30 - 19:00 | UCC Longmont, 1500 9th Avenue, Longmont, CO, United States
Join us as we celebrate Whitney!
Sunday, September 14th at 5:30 PM
UCC Longmont
1500 9th. Avenue, Longmont CO
Nursery care provided. Attending clergy are invited to wear stoles.

BOUNDARY TRAINING with Southeast Conference UCC
2025-09-13 08:00 - 11:00 | Online
Please click this link to learn more and register. To see the RMC’s complete list of upcoming trainings, please visit rmcucc.org/trainings

Wholeness & Wellness Weekend: Sense & Sensuality
2025-09-12 00:00 - 2025-09-14 23:59 | La Foret Conference and Retreat Center, 6145 Shoup Rd, Colorado Springs, CO, 80908, United States
Dates: September 12-14, 2025
Location: La Foret Conference & Retreat Center, 6145 Shoup Rd. Colorado Springs, CO 80908
Recharge your spirit and reconnect with your body and nature at the “Wholeness & Wellness Weekend.” This immersive retreat offers a unique opportunity to step away from the demands of everyday life and embrace a weekend dedicated to self-discovery, refreshment, and rejuvenation.
Event Overview:
The theme for this year’s retreat, “Sense & Sensuality,” invites you to experience the fullness of being through your senses and bodily awareness. In a world often dominated by mental activity, this weekend encourages you to move beyond the cerebral and reconnect with the joy of living in a body.
To learn more about this retreat and to register, please follow this link to the La Foret website.

Boundary Training for Clergy
2025-09-12 00:00 - 23:59 | Online
Led by Rev. Dr. Chris Davies of the Southern New England Conference. Attend this 5- hour training, leave with your personal code of ethics and your certificate. Clergy may attend for $50, and can register here.

Nurturing Justice Fall Intensive
2025-09-12 00:00 - 2025-09-13 23:59 | Online
Nurturing Justice (nurturingjustice.org), bringing together a diversity of people nationally who are engaged in Sacred and Courageous conversations about race
and racism, is offering several opportunities to engage in cross racial education and relationship building this fall and winter. The Nurturing Justice Fall Intensive
will satisfy Racial Justice/Anti-Racism Standing Requirements (6 hours) for Authorized Ministers in the Rocky Mountain Conference, UCC.
Nurturing Justice Fall Intensive
Overview
This fall, Nurturing Justice invites you to participate in a transformative two-day interactive intensive, each session lasting 3.5 hours. Through real dialogue, participants will delve into intersectional justice issues in America, examining both historical contexts and contemporary challenges. The program focuses on the intersections of racial justice, LGBTQ+ justice, environmental justice, and immigration justice.
Program Details
Our approach includes an honest evaluation of the church’s role in fostering and sustaining injustices. Together, we will consider both personal and systemic impacts of injustice and explore practical ways to become advocates for a fairer world. The intensive is designed for clergy, lay leaders, church members, staff, and their families and friends.
Learning Methods
Participants will engage with a variety of resources—music, films, videos, articles, and book excerpts—to guide and enrich discussion. All are welcome to join. This is a virtual (zoom) offering, you can join from anywhere!
Registration and Cost
The cost for the intensive is $350.00 per person. There’s no registration form; just email interest to kris@nurturingjustice.org
Available Dates and Times
All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST):

September 12: 5:00 PM – 8:30 PM & September 13: 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM
September 26: 5:00 PM – 8:30 PM & September 27: 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM

Payment Information
Payments can be made via Zelle or PayPal to nurturingjusticecollaborative@gmail.com.

Clergy Conversation Series on Addiction & Families: Family Matters/Families Matter - Part I
2025-09-11 13:30 - 17:00 | Zoom
Part I – Join us for a 3-part series on Addiction & Families: Family Matter/Families Matter. Part I, Language Matters: Defining the Words We Use. In this webinar, we (Erica Poellot and Dee-Dee Stout) discuss how our language around substance use has changed and why this is crucial for us to understand before having deeper conversations about addiction. Words such as recovery, addiction, dependence, substance use disorders, enabling/codependency, harm reduction, and more will be covered. We may also discuss some of the history & myths of harm reduction and abstinence-only treatment. There will be time for Q&A with the panelists after each session!
Please click here to register.
Dates:

Part One: Sep 11, 2025 01:30 PM MT
Part Two: Sep 18, 2025 01:30 PM MT
Part Three: Sep 25, 2025 01:30 PM MT

BOUNDARY TRAINING with the Damascus Project.
2025-09-11 00:00 - 23:59 | Zoom

Cultivating Generous Congregations Seminar
2025-09-09 17:30 - 19:00 | Zoom
We invite you and your ministry team to participate in a seminar experience that could change the way you and your congregation approach giving and generosity. Cultivating Generous Congregations (CGC) is an interactive seminar demonstrating how pastors and leaders can unearth and energize congregational generosity by exploring the significant and necessary steps to creating lasting cultural change within a congregation.
Interactive segments of CGC explore theology, the role of adaptive leadership, fiscal transparency and the importance of donor care, with action steps to impact the generosity exploration and experience for both laity and clergy.
Course Dates
Synchronous Zoom Seminars
Tuesdays, 5:30 – 7:00pm Mountain Time
Sept. 9, 23, Oct 7, 21, Nov. 4, 18
Additional self-paced learning between sessions
Learn more or register at www.thedamascusproject.org/CGC
Register at least 2 leaders per congregation at $125 each person. Use coupon code “RMC-CGC” for $200 discount per church.

RACIAL JUSTICE TRAINING with Enkei Resolutions
2025-09-09 00:00 - 2025-09-11 23:59 | Online

Boundary Training for Ministers in Specialized Settings
2025-09-04 16:00 - 19:00 | Zoom
This training is open to ministers serving in specialized settings throughout the United Church of Christ. Serving in specialized settings requires particular attention to boundaries within the ministry setting and home church that are challenging and different from those serving as local church pastors. This training will focus on matters that relate specifically to issues that these ministers face, providing opportunities for clergy to reflect on best practices and growth in their practice of ministry.
This training is happening via Zoom. Click here to register.
To see the RMC’s complete list of upcoming trainings, please visit rmcucc.org/trainings

Dumpster Fire Ethics: Rethinking How We Follow Jesus
2025-09-04 13:30 - 15:30 | Zoom
In times of social, political, and economic crisis we need new ways to think about morality and ethics to make sure that our ethical approaches serve the moment and compel us into just and healing action. Sociologist, liturgist, and sacred music composer Amanda Udis-Kessler offers us a new way of thinking about ethics that is consonant with the commitments of progressive Christianity and that helps us follow Jesus in times of violence, cruelty, and corruption. This ethical approach has implications for our spiritual development, personal growth, church practices, and justice work. Join us for a conversation with Amanda about her 2024 Pilgrim Press book Abundant Lives: A Progressive Christian Ethic of Flourishing.
Happening via Zoom. Register here: https://ucc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b6ZXZ3qzSKuTnW3ibdVAGA#/registration

UCC Climate Action Assembly
2025-09-03 11:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
The UCC Council for Climate Justice will be hosting a Climate Action Assembly to further the connectedness and action in the UCC for pursuing climate justice. In this gathering, we will hear from the Rev. Jim Antal about the upcoming national day of action on September 21st called Sun Day. We will also hear from Rebeca Perera, the Chief Credit Officer for the Cornerstone Fund, on the present and future outlook for churches going solar after the reconciliation bill. Additional updates will be given about Creation Justice Churches and Climate Hope Affiliates.
Happening via Zoom. Register here: https://ucc.zoom.us/meeting/register/GenGuArXTaqdf7-5AqYYfA#/registration

OWL Taking Flight: Building a Trans/Nonbinary-Inclusive Teen Library
2025-09-03 10:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Join Melanie Davis and Sloane Kazim for a discussion about how to make sure your library at home, at church, in your community–is inclusive of trans/nonbinary representation. Now, more than ever, this matters!
Happening via Zoom. Register here: https://ucc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yLwuraMzTT6obtRvhwVFkA#/registration

Spiritual Support for MIDs of Color Serving in White Settings (MESA)
2025-09-02 13:30 - 15:30 | Online

New Faith Communities Cohort
2025-09-02 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
Starting a new faith community is a brave and transformative calling—but it can also feel overwhelming and isolating. We’ve walked this road ourselves, so we understand. That’s why we’re launching a new monthly online cohort designed specifically for those of you engaged in this work. This 1.5-hour monthly gathering will provide a space for connection, support, and shared wisdom among peers who understand the challenges and possibilities of this ministry. Led by Cameron Trimble, CEO of Convergence.
This is a virtual event happening via Zoom. Please be sure to register for this event, which you can do via this link.

Clergy Coaching Info Session
2025-08-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Zoom
Join Vince Tango for a 30-minute conversation on what coaching is, how it works, and how it might help your ministry and well-being. There will be three information sessions happening over the next few weeks. Please click on the links below to register for a session:

Friday, August 15 at Noon (MDT)
Tuesday, August 19 at 6 PM (MDT)
Thursday, August 28 at 6 PM (MDT)

Please also visit the coaching program’s official page via this link. Once you’re ready to apply, you can access the application page here.

Pastoral Support Committees with Rev. Tara Barber
2025-08-28 17:30 - 19:00 | Online
Not your Predecessors PPRC! Pastor/Parish Relations Committees have provided essential leadership in the life of a congregation. And the name has led to some confusion about the focus of their role. Come to this workshop as we explore what it means to become a Pastoral Support Committee – what it is and what it is not. We’ll be talking through and naming the priorities and commitments of a well-functioning PSC. Rev. Tara Barber will share best practices from around the church and be prepared to answer your questions. Open to pastors, lay leaders, and judicatory staff.
This is a virtual event happening via Zoom. Please use this link to register.

Top Ten Ideas on Generosity
2025-08-27 17:30 - 19:00
REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZTskLO6hRaW880TCjz5oVg#/registration
Jump start your stewardship and fundraising efforts with ten practical ideas you can implement in your congregation. Try one or try them all to generate more financial resources for your ministry. This is a Zoom webinar event with Rev. Andrew Warner of the Wisconsin Foundation UCC.

Finance Office Hours
2025-08-27 10:30 - 12:00 | Zoom
Are you a treasurer at your local church? Do you have questions about church finances? Looking for tips on staying financially organized? Join Brianna Gillmore, the RMC’s Financial Associate, on the 4th Wednesday of each month at 10:30 AM for Finance Office Hours. Drop in to ask questions or to learn from Brianna and your fellow church finance friends. Please use the Zoom link below to join these meetings:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82128665744?pwd=[REDACTED]

Survival Songs
2025-08-23 20:00 - 22:00
Derek Webb will be at Vista Grande UCC (5460 N. Union Blvd., Colorado Springs) on August 23rd – doors at 7:30 and show at 8pm!
Derek Webb, formerly of Caedmon’s Call, is coming to Vista Grande UCC in Colorado Springs! He has written an entirely new album called “Survival Songs”, dedicated to LGBTQ+ youth and wants to share it with communities in need of encouragement and empowerment. LGBTQ+ youth under the age of 18 get into the concert free! Get your tickets here!

RETIRED CLERGY BOUNDARY TRAINING with NYC Conference
2025-08-20 00:00 - 23:59 | Online
Click here to visit the NYC Conference registration page (scroll down to the heading “Retiree BAT 2025”)
To see the RMC’s complete list of upcoming trainings, please visit rmcucc.org/trainings
