Friday, July 24

Church Professional Event   •   Leader:  Richard Hamm

How to Lead Adaptive Change without Losing Your Job or Your Religion

The Church Professional Event was supported by a Richard and Helen Brown Endowment Fund Grant, provided by UCC Local Church Ministries and the United Church Foundation.

Photo by Bruce Steinhard

• Surviving the Conversation, speaker/panel discussion sponsored by the UCC Coalition for LGBT Concerns, Ohio Chapter

• Urban Churches in Mission - Worship and Sharing

• Our Churches’ Response to War Interest Group Event

• Mission Program – sponsored by Global Ministries

• Ministry in Uncertain Times

• Conversation with Our Conference Minister and Our Keynote Speaker

• Leadership Training for Youth

Comedy by Rev. Dwight McCormick

Music by Mescalito, led by Theo Jackson from David's UCC, Canal Winchester

Saturday, July 25

Plenary Session

Conference Business — Election, Treasurer’s report, 2010 budget (PDF), speakouts, Tom Paton Awards (St. Paul UCC, Wapakoneta; Westerville Community UCC)

Keynote Speaker - Rev. Richard Hamm  •  Spiders, Starfishes, and the Church

State of the Conference Report (PDF) - Rev. Bob Molsberry

Plenary session sponsor:  UCC Insurance Board and local agents, Ben Rupp and John Bouhall    

Photo by Bruce Steinhard

Oars & Rudders - Piloting the Missional Church in a Post-Christian Age (PDF)

Sermon, Rev. Bob Molsberry

Network Meetings and Events

• Mini Mission Festival - sponsored by Global Ministries

• Benevolent Institutions Meeting

• Disaster Response Team Meeting

• Urban Churches in Mission Workshop

• Rural Churches

• Faith and Money Affinity Group Workshop

• Our Churches' Response to War Interest Group Event

• Leadership Training for Youth

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Our Church Professional Event leader and keynote speaker . . .

Dr. Richard L. "Dick" Hamm is Executive Administrator for Christian Churches Together (CCT), a new and very broad ecumenical organization that includes communions from five “families:” Mainline Protestants, Historic Black Churches, Evangelicals/Pentecostals, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox as well as several Christian organizations, including Sojourners, Bread for the World and Habitat for Humanity.

Before assuming this post he was for ten years the General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the US and Canada. 

He is a graduate of Butler University and Christian Theological Seminary and served congregations for 23 years in three states and in rural, exurban, urban and suburban settings. He has been an associate minister, founding pastor of a new church, and senior minister of multiple staffs.

In 1990 he received the “Model Minister” Award from the Indiana Region, and in 1993 he was honored as “Tennessee Ecumenist of the Year.”  He is a former member of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches and a former Vice President of the National Council of Churches in the U.S.A.

Dick holds seven honorary degrees and is the author of three books: 2020 Vision for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), From Mainline to Front Line, and Recreating the Church: Leadership for the Postmodern Age.