1. Annual Meeting Registration
2. Who’s on First?
3. Join the Choir at Annual Meeting
4. LEARN with Andover Newton
5. Association Celebrations

1. Its Coming – The 76th Annual Meeting of the Maine Conference is rapidly approaching. I know it seemed a long time away when I started sending you these reminders, but it’s only a month until we get together at Sunday River to work, play, dream and pray together. All registration materials can be found at the Conference website www.maineucc.org Please print them off and distribute to your delegates and visitors. The deadline for reserving your lodging at Sunday River, in order to receive the Conference room rate, is Aug. 27, so contact them soon. If you have any questions, please call Sue at the Conference office – 846-5118.

2. With our new Associate Conference Minister joining the team on August 27, we wanted to let you know about the changes in responsibility that will take effect. David Gaewski will be working with the Hancock-Waldo, Cumberland, Lincoln and Aroostook Associatons; David Ray will work with Washington and Franklin Associations; and Susie Craig will work with the York, Oxford Union, Kenebec Valley and Penobscot-Piscataquis Associations. All other Conference committee assignments will remain the same as they were during the transitional period.

2. One workshop choice at the Maine Conference Annual Meeting is CHOIR REHEARSAL. We will practice for the Sunday Morning
Worship Service, and be prepared to provide an anthem and some service music. Please sign up for the rehearsal workshop and know
you are welcome to be part of the Annual Meeting Choir!

3. Andover Newton continues to offer an array of on-line seminars on important issues for both clergy and laity. Early fall seminars
include:
Spiritual Leadership for Transforming Congregations with Graham Standish, author of "Becoming a Blessed Congregation"
What's Really Going On in Emerging Church Worship with Tony Jones, National Coordinator for Emergent Village
"Propetable"Stewardship - What Every Pastor and Church Leader Needs to Know about Church Finances
Brushing Up on the Bible
Islam: A Basic Introduction
Postmodern Practicalities

For further information and to register go to www.ants.edu/learn or write Jeff Jones, Director of Distance Learning at jjones@ants.edu.

4. Association Celebrations:
Peggy Wolfe Dunn will be ordained by the Cumberland Association, and installed as pastor and teacher of the Gardiner congregation by the Kennebec Valley Association at 3 pm on Sunday September 9 at the Gardiner Congregational Church in Gardiner.
Franklin Haines will be ordained at the Rumford Point Congregational Church on September 9, 2007 at 3 pm.

PS. Sue Stevens will be on vacation next week, so there won’t be an ACE on Aug. 22.

Maine Conference, United Church of Christ

PO Box 966

Yarmouth, ME 04096

conference@maineucc.org

207-846-5118