Recent Annual Meeting actions

Each year, the Massachusetts Conference has an Annual Meeting which elects leadership, authorizes expenses, and discusses common concerns. Following are some of the actions taken in recent years by delegates, which include clergy and lay members of our churches. Click on the resolution for the full text.

2006

• 2007 Compensation Guidelines for MACUCC clergy     

2005

• 2006 Compensation Guidelines for MACUCC Clergy
• Resolution Promoting Peace for All in Sudan
• A Resolution to Affirm and Encourage the Pledge of Time, Talents and Treasure as a Sign and Seal of our Commitment as Individuals and Churches to Christ and Christ's Mission
• An emergency Resolution to Affirm the Critical Importance of Quality Public Education and to Invite People of Faith to Stand with UCC Communities in Springfield Against the Destruction of Urban Schools
• Resolution In Support of "Jubilee Congregations" and "Jubilee Sunday" within the UCC
• Resolution to Call the MACUCC to Advance the Cause of the Most Vulnerable in the budgetary and Appropriation Process
• Resolution to Send a Call for Environmental Education and Action to General Synod

2004

• 2005 Compensation Guidelines for MACUCC Clergy
• A Resolution Supporting Seafarer Rights
• Resolution on Massachusetts Prison Control Units
• A Resolution to Encourage Respect for Marriages
• Resolution to Support the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Decision Affirming the Right of Same-Gender Couples to Marry
• Resolution Calling the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ to be a Fair Trade Conference

2003

• Resolution to Invite Congregations to Endorse the Earth Charter
• Resolution Concerning a Christian Response to War
• Resolution for a Healthy Tomorrow
• 2004 Compensation Guidelines for Clergy

2002

• Resolution in Support of the People in, and a UCC Delegation to, Colombia, South America
• Resolution to End Homelessness in Massachusetts
• Resolution Concerning our Government's Response to the Attacks of 9/11/01
• 2003 Compensation Guidelines for MACUCC Clergy

2001

• Resolution on the Environment and the Church
• Resolution Calling for a More Just, Humane Direction for Economic Globalization