Join us April 25 - 27, 2024 at Shepherd of the Hills UCC in-person or online!
At the 2023 Annual Meeting, we heard you about wanting a more hybrid experience. So by popular demand, our 2024 Annual Meeting will be nearly 100% available BOTH online and in-person!
To accomplish this, we’re trying out an event platform, Whova. It’s handling our registrations, agenda, live streams, voting, and more!
We encourage you to register early (by March 17) to take advantage of the early bird pricing. You’ll be invited to download the Whova app on your mobile device to fully experience the Annual Meeting whether you’re onsite or remote.
Read MoreAttending the Annual Gathering? Here’s the workshop information you’ve been waiting for, including an “Unworkshop” - check it out.
Read MoreThe Southwest Conference staff, along with Annual Gathering Coordinator Karen Richter, have the planning well underway and we need feedback from all SWC clergy and church delegates.
Read MoreWith joy, the SWC Executive Board announces that the 2023 Annual Meeting will be held in-person, in El Paso, TX on April 27, 28, and 29! After successfully hosting three online gatherings, we felt called by the Spirit to gather in-person to share, to celebrate, and to be in community with one another again. We appreciate the new knowledge and skills gained through our virtual efforts and look forward to re-building relationships and reconnecting in ways best done face to face.
Read MoreOur Friday panel will focus on how churches can be successful with a hybrid model of in-person and online worship. Meet the panelists:
Read MoreThank you, United Church Funds, for your generous sponsorship of our 2020 virtual Annual Meeting!
Much appreciation to our other sponsors, too: Insurance Board, United Church of Christ Church Building & Loan Fund, and United Church of Christ Cornerstone Fund.
Read MorePlease watch this report and visit the web page to check out our schedule of virtual events and groups and to listen to the podcast!
Read MoreMuch appreciation to all who helped to create and shape the beautiful and inspiring all-conference worship service during Annual Meeting! Thanks to all who attended and for your kind words in the Facebook comments and emails. Coming together for worship was wonderful!
If you missed it, or want to watch it again or download the video, we got you!
Read MoreThe offertory, virtual choir, Bill Lyons’ message from the conference-wide worship service are all available for viewing and downloading!
Read MoreThe Awakening to Racial Justice was renamed A Southwest Conference Resolution on Restorative Racial Justice: Decentering Whiteness In Our Churches and Society. It passed:
The International Decade for People of African Descent resolution passed:
As soon as the final drafts are available, we’ll send them out and post them on the website.
Read MoreWell done, Robert! Thank you for your faithfulness to God’s call on your life. Thank you for your ministry among us. We are better people, better followers of Jesus, and a better church because of you.
Read MoreAll churches of the Southwest Conference are invited to join together online for worship during our Annual Meeting! This is NOT just for delegates. EVERYONE is invited to worship together as ONE conference.
We'll go "live" on our Facebook page at 9 am Arizona time/10 am New Mexico and El Paso time.
Read MoreWe’re picking up speed toward our Virtual Annual Meeting. See what you need to know.
Read MoreResolutions must be in the hands of the Executive Board, in writing, no later than the meeting of the Board preceding the Annual Meeting for approval for submission at the Annual Meeting. As of this writing, that date is Thursday, September 17, 2020.
Read MoreThe SWC Executive Board met on Thursday, April 2 and approved the candidates on the Nominating Slate for 2020 to fill positions being vacated at the end of this month. Nominees will be affirmed by SWC delegates when the annual meeting convenes in October.
Read MoreThis year’s Southwest Conference Annual Meeting (AM) will not take place April 24-26, 2020, as a result of health threats posed by COVID-19. The 2020 Annual Meeting date has been changed. The new date for the SWC 2020 Annual Meeting is October 2-4, 2020. Here are answers to some of the questions you may have in light of this decision.
Read MoreWhether you’re a seasoned Twitter user or are brand new to Instagram, you can follow and contribute to the conversation about (and during) the Annual Meeting on social media!
Read MoreWe are Called Together May 5th & 6th in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Annual Meeting 2017
After a number of requests the Annual Meeting 2017 Registration deadline has been extended until April 7th, just one week away. If you are planning on attending the Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico please signup now!
For an up to date schedule, and more information please see the Annual Meeting 2017 page.
Read MoreThe 2017 Annual Meeting Schedule is now available.
Please review the upcoming workshops, business sessions, and events as you coordinate your local church deligation.
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