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NOTE: This menu contains web pages that do not change very often, or are for quick reference.
There are many links on the NWOA homepage (not found below) that change too often to list here!

Association Cabinet -- member of NWOA's vision-keeping and gverning body

Budget for 2004  )

Calendar Calendar & Events -- updated monthly
Churches listed by REGION and "Cluster" www.nwoa.org/churchesby region.htm
Churches alphanumeric according to city www.nwoa.org/churches.htm
Churches seeking ministers www.nwoa.org/seeking.htm
Code of Ethics for Local Churches www.nwoa.org/chcode.htm
Code of Ethics for Ministers www.nwoa.org/mincode.htm
Code of Ethics for Retired Pastors and Churches with New Ministers  www.nwoa.org/ethics_retired.htm
Colleges and Seminaries and Academies of the United Church of Christ, a list. Not linked, but in the future. Your best bet is to find them by doing a web search. Or ask your minister, unless you are one! :).
Covenant Fund - The fund for helping churches seeking intentional revitalization and renewal
CUE Chicago, United, Eden Theological Seminaries. Seminary of the UCC litany

Lay School of Religion www.nwoa.org/lay1.htm - Introduction page to the Lay Ministry Program.
Lay School Registration form for latest course offering www.nwoa.org/layreg.htm
Lay School of Religion www.nwoa.org/layschl.htm - Current Course and Instructor
Lay School of Religion www.nwoa.org/layguide.htm guidelines for Entrance into the Lay School or Religion.
Links -- Ministry links for pastors and churches...preaching, lectionary, Christian Ed,. etc.

Media Center - Ohio Conference UCC Media Center Resource Catalogue; Audio Visuals available at the Center located in the library of the Defiance college
Menu - www.nwoa.org/menu.htm this page
Mission Defining and Restructuring Process: MDRP -- main page for the recently-completed futuring process; PAST LINKS -- links to the process for the last two years  (see also NEW STRUCTURE)

Mission, OCWM www.nwoa.org/ocwm.htm--Our Churches Wider Mission flier telling how we spend our mission money in NWOA, Ohio Conference, and Nationally.
Mission Statement - Tells why this site is here in the first place.

NEW STRUCTURE:  "Staffing Models" -- possible new staff patterns for NWOA;  REGIONAL HOMEPAGE (Under construction, coming SOON) -- new site for the three Regions created by our new NWOA stucture
 

OCWM - Information about Our Church's Wider Mission, the Basic Support for the mission work of the United church of Christ. This set of pages is always under construction.

Salary Guidelines for Clergy for churches planning budgets.
Salary Guidelines for Church Educators
SARA is the international mission project of the Ohio Conference, to theUkraine.
SARA in NWOA -- how folks in our Association are helping in the SARA mission
NWOA Staff Who works for us.

VISION STATEMENT for NWOA -- developed in our "Mission Defining and Restructuring" process, inconjunction with
    the Center for Parish Development, over the last two years

Youth encouragement, 3 dozen ways to help your youth become involved. Read it at your church meeting, and see if you can get people to talk a part to encourage out kids. Http://www.nwoa.org/3dozways.htm ALSO: see a thought-provoking report on youth ministryfrom UCC singer/songwritwer/muscian BRIAN SIRCHIO: 10 Marks of Effective Youth Ministry