Pennsylvania Southeast Conference UCC

02/04/2026

Pennsylvania Southeast Conference has merged to become Keystone Conference. Please follow us at Keystone Conference UCC.

12/29/2025

With the merger of the Conferences to Keystone Conference, you want to try and get the balance of your 2025 OCWM to PSEC prior to 12/31 for a smooth transition! Make sure your church is 5 for 5 by sending all offerings to the Pottstown office of PSEC before the end of the year! Have a blessed Advent and Christmas!

12/24/2025

Christmas Message from the Conference Minister:

“Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her quietly. But just when he had resolved to do this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid…”
— Matthew 1

I love Joseph for this. He refuses to shame the one who appears to have broken his heart. In a world fluent in revenge and public retribution, Joseph practices mercy in private. This is not the response of a man without faith or a sense of justice. It is the response of someone trying to do the right thing when his future has suddenly become unrecognizable.

Then the angel comes, not with explanations, but with a command that has long tried to find a home in hardened hearts: “Do not be afraid.” Do not be afraid of what you cannot explain. Do not be afraid to trust what you cannot control. Do not be afraid to stay when leaving would be easier.

Joseph does not ask for clarity. He wakes up and does what the angel tells him to do. In that quiet obedience, Joseph becomes the guardian of God’s promise — proof that salvation sometimes depends on people who simply keep going when they are afraid.

Joseph’s story feels close to home as our Pennsylvania Southeast Conference stands on the threshold of becoming the Keystone Conference. This is not the future we imagined when we first said yes to serve our small portion of the Body of Christ. Our coming together carries grief alongside hope, uncertainty alongside promise. Like Joseph, we are trying to be faithful without being certain, to move forward without seeing the whole road.

I find myself longing for Joseph’s strength as I stand at the edge of my own not-knowing. Yet through his eyes I see again that endings are also beginnings, and that faith is often born right where fear is strongest. We are not asked to understand everything — only to trust enough to take the next step. I covet your prayers about that. Rest assured, you have mine.

Advent, at its heart, is an invitation not to certainty, but to courage; not to control, but to faithfulness. “Do not be afraid,” the angel says—and then says it again. And again. Do not be afraid of what is being born among you. Do not miss what is being born within you. Dare to call it by its name: Emmanuel — God with us.

Merry Christmas, my friends.
Thanks be, God is with us all.
Rev. William (Bill) P. Worley
Conference Minister

12/22/2025

As you prepare for your Christmas Eve worship services where we celebrate our Savior's birth, also remember all those retirees who have given their life's work to share the gospel and to lead our churches! Remember them with the Christmas Fund which has been caring for active and retired clergy and lay employees of the United Church of Christ for over 100 years, providing emergency grants, supplementation of small annuities and health premiums, and Christmas “Thank You” gift checks each December to our lower-income retirees.

12/16/2025

Today's eNews includes several save-the-dates, new event registrations, and more!

Email from Pennsylvania Southeast Conference UCC Trouble viewing this email? Click here to view as webpage. Important This Week Mark your calendar for first Keystone Conference Annual Meeting, Clergy

12/15/2025

The Rev. Alisa Unell was ordained this past Sunday at Salem, Doylestown by the North Penn Association. We congratulate Alisa on this moment and we give thanks to God for calling her as a servant within the the United Church of Christ. Her ordination will be the last one in the Pennsylvania Southeast Conference UCC before our merger into the Keystone Conference.

12/12/2025

Happy ordination anniversary next week to Debora Gifford (24 years), Janet Rose (42 years), and Jacqueline Turnbach (33 years)

12/09/2025

Check out this week's eNews. Alisa Unell ordination this weekend, who to contact on Keystone Conference staff, free items available as Conference offices merge, and much more!

Email from Pennsylvania Southeast Conference UCC Trouble viewing this email? Click here to view as webpage. Important This Week Alisa Unell ordination this weekend Who to contact on Keystone Conferenc

12/08/2025

For over one hundred years, The Christmas Fund has provided direct financial assistance to the healers in all our lives: retired and active UCC ministers, church workers, and their families. You are part of the community of The Christmas Fund, whether you donate at Christmastime, benefit directly from our grant or leadership programs, or simply believe in our mission to help secure the financial foundation of those engaged in the life of the church.

12/05/2025

Happy ordination anniversary next week to Bonnie Moore (28 years), Steven Simpson (35 years), Deborah Parker-Hill (18 years), William Worley (31 years), Jan Remer-Osborn (9 years), Amelie Castillo (21 years), and Adrian Tierson (10 years) 🎉🎉🎉

12/02/2025

Theology with a Twist tomorrow December 2nd is canceled. With the unpredictable weather we don't want any of you to miss our great programming and, since our speaker is coming from a distance, we don't want him to have to drive in the snow or ice. Bradden Weaver and his presentation on Christian Nationalism will be rescheduled for next year.

We hope you all have a wonderful holiday season, and take a look at what we have planned for 2026! We'll be at the Kutztown Tavern at 7pm the 1st Tuesday of the month and hope you will too!

January 6th Dr. Joseph Birli, CEO of Bethany Children’s Home, will join us and share about his book “From Pr******te to President: A Journey of Healing and Survival to Break the Chains of Human Trafficking.”

February 3rd will be our rescheduled session with Bradden Weaver as he covers Christian Nationalism, particularly his research into Spiritual Warfare and the New Apostolic Reformation.

March 3rd Dr. Brigidda Zapata Bell, Assistant Professor of New
Testament at Moravian Theological Seminary, will be returning. This
time she’ll share a special presentation on women in the Bible for Women’s History Month.