- Date: June 4th, 2022 (10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, ET)

- Location:

40 S Fullerton Ave, Monclair, NJ 07042
First Congregational Church of Montclair

* This event is free and open to the public. A goodwill offering will be collected.
* Lunch will be provided.

- Guest Speakers

Rev. Andy Lang

Rev. Andy Lang has 18 years of experience as a communications professional in the United Church of Christ. He was a daily newspaper reporter and Congressional press officer in Washington, DC, before moving to Cleveland to join the UCC’s national communications staff in 1993. Andy built the UCC’s first churchwide website at ucc.org in 1994 and led the church’s national web ministry until 2004. Andy has been the Coalition’s executive director since 2010: in that capacity, he leads the UCC’s Open and Affirming Program, the largest LGBTQ-affirming church movement in the world. His passion is to reach the nearly 3,500 UCC congregations that have not yet adopted an ONA covenant.

Rev. Charing Wei-Jen Chen

Rev. Charing Wei-Jen Chen is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. He is a minister of Communication and Innovation at United Church of Hyde Pakr, Chicago, IL. He is a Ph.D. student at Chicago Theological Seminary. His study focuses are Hebrew Bible, Queer and Postcolonial Studies. He has been involved in Taiwanese LGBTQ rights movements as a Christian activist. He has published translations and book sections about theology and ministry for the minoritized.  


Program:

9:30 - 10:00    Registraion

10:00 - 11:00  First Section: A History of ONA (Speaker: Rev. Andy Lang)
11:00 - 11:30  Q&A

11:30 - 12:00  Lunch

12:00 - 1:00   Second Section: A Future of ONA (Speaker: Rev. Charing Wei-Jen Chen)
1:00   - 1:30   Q&A

1:30   - 2:00   Prayer and Closing

If you have any questions?

Contact Rev. Haeman Hong, 929-247-0608, hh2498@utsnyc.edu