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What is the United Church of Christ Archives?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the UCC Archives Does:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013<\/strong> Collects, preserves, and provides access to the records of the UCC from around the time of the creating Union in 1957 onward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Acts as the office of records management for the national setting of the denomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Provides guidance for how to manage current and historical records to all settings of the denomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is in the UCC Archives:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The records, photographs, resources, and objects from around the time of the creating Union in 1957 onward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A selection of a few of the vast resources include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Records from the national offices<\/em>
        \u2013 UCC Yearbooks
        \u2013 General Synod Minutes
        \u2013 Executive Council Minutes
        \u2013 Resources developed by national offices
        \u2013 Documentation about the formation of the UCC
        \u2013 Records of projects and innitiatives<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Collections from national UCC organizations, committees, councils and groups<\/em>
        \u2013 Council for Health and Human Services
        \u2013 UCC Historical Council<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Personal papers of people involved in the work of the national setting of the denomination<\/em>
        \u2013 Rev. Arthur Clyde\u2019s collection of hymnals
        \u2013 Rev. Harold Wilke\u2019s papers documenting his work in the UCC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Conference publications and newsletters<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Written histories of local churches, associations, conferences, and other UCC-related ministries<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On-Line Resources<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Archival Finding Aids<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electronic versions of General Synod Minutes, The Constitution and Bylaws and New Conversations <\/em>are now available at rescarta.ucc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All documents are searchable by keyword, and are complete to present. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Partnerships with other Historical Organizations:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UCC Archives works closely with other archives that hold the records of the denominations that united to form the UCC. Please visit the Historical Council<\/a> page to find more information about those institutions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the United Church of Christ Archives? What the UCC Archives Does: \u2013 Collects, preserves, and provides access to the records of the UCC from around the time of the creating Union in 1957 onward.  \u2013 Acts as the office of records management for the national setting of the denomination. \u2013 Provides guidance for how to manage current and historical records to all settings of the denomination. What is in the UCC Archives: The records, photographs, resources, and objects from around the time of the creating Union in 1957 onward. A selection of a few of the vast resources include: \u2013 Records from… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":142,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-no-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-152","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citychurchcommunity.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citychurchcommunity.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citychurchcommunity.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citychurchcommunity.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citychurchcommunity.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citychurchcommunity.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/citychurchcommunity.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152\/revisions\/153"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citychurchcommunity.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citychurchcommunity.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}