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Upcoming Events | Researching Climate Change December 5, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m., COSI's Galaxy Center. A free screening of the short-cut of Glacial Balance, a documentary that explores glacial research and the local impacts of the melting of the Andean glacier reserve. Film to be followed by a presentation and Q&A sesssion with filmmaker Ethan Steinman, and Dr. Lonnie Thompson, an Ohio State University School of Earth Sciences professor and researcher scientist. Click here for ticket reservation. Second Annual Holy Spirit Seminar - Signs and Wonders December 6, 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at Ginghamsburg Church, 6759 South County Road 25, Tipp City, Ohio. Guest Speaker: Randy Clark. Here is more information. A Spiritual Journey with Compassion - Change your thoughts, change your words, change your world. Friday-Saturday, December 6-7, 2013; a 1.5-day conference at First Community Church (South Campus), 1320 Cambridge Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43212. Click here for more information about this conference. 5th Annual Human Trafficking Awareness Day Thursday, January 9, 2014. Please join State Representative Teresa Fedor at the Ohio Statehouse Atrium. Click here for more information, or call 614-644-6017 by January 6. CLEs and CEU credits pending. Registration for Basic Immigration Law, 40 Hour Training, is Now Open January 13-17, 2014 at Vineyard Columbus, 6000 Cooper Road, Westerville, OH. Training will be taught by attorneys and conducted using the curriculum of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. For more information, please call 614-980-8600, or contact Janara Walker. |
Get your ticket now! | The 29th Martin Luther King Breakfast Celebration "The Arc of the Moral Universe Is Long, but It Bends Toward Justice"  Monday, January 20, 2014 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. Keynote Speaker will be Ms. Yvette McGee Brown. For more information and to order tickets, click here
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Calling All Community-Based Organizations! | Become a Certified Application Counselor Organization  UCAN Ohio is doing outreach to community-based organizations to encourage them to become Certified Application Counselors organizations (CAC) and provide them support along the way. There are upcoming orientations in Columbus and Cincinnati.
Click here to learn more about becoming a CAC organization.
If you're interested in finding out more about becoming a CAC organization, contact Nita Carter at 614-456-0060 x224 |
New General Secretary - NCCCUSA | Chicago, November 18, 2013 - James E. Winkler, general secretary of the United Methodist General Board of Church and Societ  y, has been elected General Secretary/ President of the National Council of Churches by the NCC Governing Board Meeting here. Winkler will succeed Peg Birk, who has served as Transitional General Secretary of the Council since July 2012.
The office of General Secretary/President, formerly General Secretary, is the leading staff position in the NCC. With Peg Birk's superb guidance, the Council has been through an intense period of planning and reorganization to focus our mission priorities and maintain our fiscal health during a challenging time," said Kathryn Lohre, NCC President. "We are confident that Jim Winkler's gifts and experience are just what the Council needs to stay on the right path and expand its horizons." The NCC General Secretary/President will serve as the executive leader of the Council with overall responsibility for personnel, deploying resources to achieve the priorities of the NCC, organizational and board development, fund-raising, vision-setting, long-range planning, financial management, external relationships and thought leadership. |
OCC Related Organizations | Church World Service/CROP, Ohio Regional Office. Who are they? The Ohio Regional Office of Church World Service/CROP is headed by Mr. Matthew Stevens. The area served is Ohio and the Kentucky counties of Boone, Campbell and Kenton. (the rest of Kentucky is served by the Indiana/Kentucky Field Office). Church World Service was born in 1946, in the aftermath of World War II. Seventeen denominations came together to form an agency "Their mission is: Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, heal the sick, comfort the aged, shelter the homeless.
More than 65 years later this mission remains, though where and how it is accomplished has changed dramatically. CWS sponsors CROP, which is the original charitable walking event in the U.S. to end hunger locally and abroad. Visit them on FB. |
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