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UCC Commits to Long-Term Flooding Recovery
Nearly three months after a bomb cyclone hit the central Midwest, communities in Iowa and Nebraska are still cleaning up and looking to move forward. The floodwaters not only destroyed homes, businesses, and farmland, but also infrastructure such as roads, bridges, railways, and water lines. Rebuilding will cost  hundreds of millions of dollars  and  the larger economic effects  will be felt beyond the region for some time.

Local UCC churches, with the support of The  UCC’s National Disaster Ministry  (NDM), have pitched in to provide help with clean-up, warm meals, and a loving presence for people who may have lost everything. The NDM provides both short-term assistance and long-term recovery support through monetary donations, volunteer and supply coordination, and prayer. The NDM, in collaboration with local Disaster Ministry Coordinator  Rev. Brice Hughes , has sent five Solidarity Grants totaling $15,000 to churches responding to this disaster.
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Download, print and post in your church or office these handy maps that show you where all your sister congregations are in the Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota Conferences of the United Church of Christ.
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Blogs ...
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We Are All Artists
by Rev. Samantha Houser
Associate Conference Minister,
Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota Conferences UCC

I am an artist. It has been a hard thing to claim because it isn't my profession, but it is one of my callings in this life. To create.

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Advocacy Can Be Messy
By Ben Anderson
Commissioned Minister for Disability Education and Advocacy

For many decades people with disabilities were supposed to be silent but that day is over.

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Three New National Staffers Bring Experience
The national ministries of the United Church of Christ recently welcomed staff members in Open and Affirming ministries with Latinx communities, in news and in publishing.