Thank you for your past support of the UCC's Strengthen the Church campaign. It's because of your support of this campaign that our churches have become a place of refuge, comfort, and sanctuary for so many who experience difficulty finding a place of welcome in what can be a cruel world; the stranger and the outcast, the vulnerable and forgotten, the marginalized and the oppressed.
Strengthen the Church is an opportunity for your gifts to sustain not just our growing, renewing and birthing churches, but also to ensure that the holy ground they create remains the sacred space in which the extravagant welcome of our beloved Jesus is embodied for all; that they may find a place where they are loved, spiritually fed, and celebrated as the child of God they are.
We hope you will continue to sustain this work by sharing this offering in your congregation on Pentecost, May 28, 2023. You can find materials to promote this year's Strengthen the Church Offering in your congregation at UCC Resources.
Learn more about the Strengthen the Church Offering
Thank you for helping us create sacred spaces, where holy ground transforms despair into hope, fear into self-confidence, anger into compassion, judgment into hospitality, and disdain into love.
Thank you again for your support of this campaign.
John Dorhauer
General Minister and President
Reflection by Rev. Dr. John Dorhauer on Strengthen the Church
This 2023 Strengthen the Church Special Mission Offering comes in the form of a special music offering of the song "Holy Ground," performed by Cynta Butts – Moderator, Central Pacific Conference, United Church of Christ.