Welcome to the

Rocky Mountain Conference

of the United Church of Christ

Upcoming Trainings for Standing Requirements

In the Rocky Mountain Conference, we recognize that learning is a responsibility that continues throughout a minister’s lifetime. This occurs through education, experience, and exposure. Lifelong Learning is the umbrella term the Committee on Ministry uses to define this process, and it includes Antiracism Training, Healthy Ministry Relationships (Boundary) Training, and Continued Learning. The Supportive Oversight Committee of the Committee on Ministry is responsible for defining requirements and supporting Authorized Ministers in understanding and completing these requirements. If you have already completed a training, please email your certificate to comregistrar2@rmcucc.org.

If you’re looking to complete any of your required trainings, please explore some of the upcoming sessions and providers listed below.

Upcoming Boundary Training Sessions

Trainings with the Damascus Project

Please click this link to learn about the Damascus Project, an shared ministry of the Minnesota and Wisconsin UCC conferences. Please click on the dates below to register for a session.

Trainings with the Southern New England Conference, UCC 

Please click this link to learn more about the Southern New England Conference of the UCC. Please click on the dates listed below to sign up for specific trainings.

Trainings with Enkei Resolutions

Please click this link to learn more about Enkei Resolutions and Diane Weible. Please click the dates below to register for a session.

Trainings with LeaderWise

Please click this link to learn more about LeaderWise. Please click on the dates below to sign up for a specific training.

Trainings with Convergence

Please click this link to learn more about Convergence CoLab, which offers a variety of virtual trainings that you can do on your own time, at your own pace. Click the link below to sign up for their current virtual boundary training sessions.

Trainings with the UCC’s Ministerial Excellence, Support & Authorization Team (MESA)

Please click this link to learn more about MESA, and please click on the dates listed below to register for a specific session.

  • February 3rd, 2025: MESA will offer a special Boundary Training for Ministers in Specialized Settings on Monday, February 3, 2025, from 6:00 – 9:00pm ET. This training, hosted by Revs. Tara Barber and Anissa Glaser-Bacon, 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. Registration is here.

Trainings for Retired Clergy

Retired Minister Boundary Training with the UCC’s Ministerial Excellence, Support & Authorization Team (MESA)

  • March 19th, 2025: Boundary Awareness Training for Retired Clergy with Rev. Tara Barber and Rev. Melanie Oommen

MESA will be offering Retired Minister Boundary Training on March 19th at 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM MT via Zoom. Maintaining healthy boundaries is challenging at any stage in ministry and it is particularly tender and difficult attending to boundaries as we transition out of our last call, and while in retirement. “A Sure Foundation”, “The Ministerial Code” and Rev. Dr. Bruce Epperly’s new book, “The Jubilee Years” along with case studies, will provide the content of this training. This focused Boundary Awareness Training is for those entering and living in retirement. Note – This training completes individual requirements for boundary training ONLY WHEN authorized by a local Committee on Ministry. To receive credit for this training participants must be able to use zoom chat and breakout room functions and must be on screen for the duration of the training. Please click this link to learn more and to register.

Upcoming Anti-Racism Training Sessions

Trainings with Convergence

Please click this link to learn more about Convergence CoLab, which offers a variety of virtual trainings that you can do on your own time, at your own pace. Click the link below to sign up for their current virtual boundary training sessions.

Trainings with Enkei Resolutions

Please click this link to learn more about Enkei Resolutions and Diane Weible. Please click the dates below to register for a session.

Trainings with the Southern New England Conference, UCC

Starting in late January 2025, the SNEC will be offering a new workshop called “Animating Antiracism in Faith Formation.” They will be offering multiple cohorts that include two-day intensives and cohorts that meet weekly for several weeks. Please use this link to visit their website to learn more about these offerings and to register.

Additional Opportunities

For additional learning opportunities for MIDs and lay persons, please see the links below.

More and more UCC churches are, whether for a season or permanently, lay-led. What possibilities for authorization, preparation for ministry, and on-going leadership formation are there for lay-led churches? What new ways might we imagine lay ministry? How might the wider church adapt to and support leadership within churches without ordained clergy? What are the resources that exist and resources to be developed to help these ministries thrive? Join MESA Team member Melanie Oommen and special guests from around the UCC for this important and timely conversation. Please click this link to learn more and register.

This training offers a walkthrough of the MID process as described in the 2018 edition of the Manual on Ministry. This workshop is designed for those contemplating or newly accepted into the UCC Member in Discernment process. New Committee on Ministry members and judicatory staff who are new to working with MIDs may also attend. Please click this link to learn more and register.