When the Together, As One planning team - a mix of board members and staff from the three southern New England conferences - began work this summer on hashing out a proposal to form a new, unified conference, they knew they needed to start with the "why."

The team members felt there was no point in figuring out governance or structure or bylaws until they could clearly articulate why the Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island conferences might want to join together to form a new conference in the first place.

The team has now developed a Vision, Mission and Purpose statement, with an accompanying Conversation Guide, A hard copy of the statement and guide is being mailed to each church in the three conferences, and is also available on the three websites.

Read more and download a copy

OneEgg News Features Haiti Task Force

OneEgg.org, an organization committed to providing nutrition to vulnerable children one egg at a time, recently featured the Conference's Haiti Task Force in it's newsletter.

See what they had to say here.