In July, EKiBa (Evangelische Landeskirche in Baden) will welcome five pastors from the Kansas-Oklahoma Conference of the United Church of Christ (UCC) — our long-standing partner church. We have been engaged in close cooperation for over 20 years.

In July, EKiBa (Evangelische Landeskirche in Baden) will welcome five pastors from the Kansas-Oklahoma Conference of the United Church of Christ (UCC) — our long-standing partner church. We have been engaged in close cooperation for over 20 years.

Pride is imago dei to me because I know what it is to not live into the imago dei that God imagined for me the full embodiment of who God created me to be.

There will be a special service at Zion UCC in Junction City on May 31 beginning at 10:30 a.m. that will include a blessing and parting liturgy honoring Lorraine and her work with KO.  All are welcome to attend or send a message to be read during the service or shared privately with Lorraine afterward.  

You are invited to join an 4-week Zoom Book Study led by Rev. Kayla Bonewell (Cathedral of Hope UCC & Church of the Open Arms UCC) on Wednesdays from 1-2 pm as we study Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet by Meggan Watterson.

There are seasons when church life can feel heavy. Questions linger. Change comes. The future can feel uncertain. In times like these, it is easy to think the life of the church depends mostly on plans, budgets, committees, and decisions still waiting to be made.

On Saturday, April 25, Evangelische Landeskirche in Baden named the Kansas-Oklahoma Conference as a beneficiary of their end-of-Spring Synod worship, honoring both our partnership and the hospitality shared by K-O.

March 2-6 was Severe Weather Preparedness week.  Like most of you—that week came and went without much attention on my end—my workplace sent updates and I read them with interest, as a Conference Disaster Response Coordinator.

The Committee on Ministry - Discernment (COM D) officially invites the Kansas-Oklahoma Conference to the Ecclesiastical Council of Cypress Brannon Saturday, May 30 at 3:30pm.  

In the ongoing series of Holy Conversations over the last three years, lay and clergy members across the Kansas-Oklahoma Conference of the UCC have expressed a growing need for resources to strengthen and build the resilience of our local churches and the communities in which they minister.

Dear Friends of the Kansas-Oklahoma Conference…

This year, KOCUCC will offer two different trainings to help meet clergy educational requirements and a standalone retreat.

From March 21-29, a delegation from the Protestant Church in Baden, Germany (EKIBA), visited KOCUCC.

We often say we are Easter people living in a Good Friday world. This year, that does not feel like a distant idea. It feels close. It feels real…

The Kansas-Oklahoma Conference of the United Church of Christ provides funds for members-in-discernment and authorized ministers to assist with theological education, continuing education, and counseling.

Their delegation comes by way of our longstanding partnership with the Evangelische Landeskirche in Baden, the Protestant Church in Baden, or EKIBA.

On Saturday, February 7, 2026, the Marshallese United Church of Christ of Enid, Oklahoma, installed their new pastor, Reverend Inok Lautej. Rev. Inok arrives in KO from the Hawaii Conference, where he served the Kauai 1st Marshallese Church UCC.

The 2025 Holy Conversations Report to the Kansas-Oklahoma Conference of the United Church of Christ included a recommendation for mental health training across the conference.

The newly launched Antioch Center at Central Seminary is an initiative dedicated to strengthening congregational vitality by equipping lay leaders, pastors, and congregations for faithful, sustainable ministry in a changing world.