General Synod Photo Gallery Jul 20, 2017 | News Scott with the award First Central received from the Mental Health Network. Scott caught up with Mike Piazza and other colleagues from around the country. Deb Kirwan took Scott out for steamed Maryland crabs. The Central Atlantic Conference welcomed us to Baltimore. A plenary business session. Worship on the closing morning. Nebraska Conference lunch. Rally outside the ICE office demanding they release a particular man who was being prepared for deportation. Immigrants rights march. UCC national offices greeting the family of the man about to be deported. Nathan Watts was in Scott’s youth group fifteen years ago. He was one of the organizers of the immigrants’ rights march. Nebraska delegates hearing from our partners in Ghana. Panels of the AIDS quilt were on display in the worship hall. Some attendees lobbying for support of the resolution on protecting Palestinian children. Synod recognized the youth who had organized the Standing Rock protests. Caucus breakfast for the Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota Conferences. Scott receiving the mental health award at the Health & Wholeness luncheon. Scott enjoyed his visit to Fort McHenry. Rev. Ken Evitts, Rev. Roddy Dunkerson (Conference Minister), and Rev. Les Parmenter of the Nebraska Conference.
