Teresa Hord Owens (1999) preached the closing worship service of the Indiana Regional Assembly on October 2. She has been Dean of Students at the Divinity School since 2005; she also serves as the interim minister of First Christian Church, Downers Grove, Illinois.

As the General Secretary of the National Council of Churches, Michael Kinnamon (1973) issued a statement on the occasion of the ninth anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. The statement calls for remembrance, commitment, and prayer. Click here to read the message.

A Service of Induction on September 11 inaugurated Tod and Ana Gobledale's  (1975) co-pastorate with St. Andrew's United Reformed Church and St. Michael's United Church in the southeastern part of London, England. Read a report about their new context of overseas service here.

House Scholar Deirdre Jackson Jones, husband Lewis, and son Lawrence welcomed Lance Vincent Jones on August 31 at 8:57 p.m. Lance arrived weighing 7 pounds, 8.5 ounces and was 20 inches long. Congratulations to the entire family.

Congratulations to Jaime Polson (1999) and Zack Flanagin, who are the proud parents of Julia Madeline Polson-Flanagin. Julia arrived on September 16 at 6:06 p.m., weighing 8 pounds, 4 ounces and measuring 18.5 inches long joining sister Isabella who is now 21 months old.

Liz Myer (1998) and Matthew Myer Boulton together with Holly McKissick (trustee) have founded SALT, a not-for-profit project dedicated to reclaiming and sharing the beauty of Christian life through film, photography, music, poetry, and ideas. They "aim to build a community of conversation and resource-sharing that, like salt itself, preserves and seasons the best and most beautiful of the Christian tradition."

Beau Underwood (2006) was ordained to the Christian ministry on July 10, 2010, at his home congregation, First Christian Church of Princeton, Illinois. A number of his Disciples House colleagues traveled to Princeton for the service, as did ministers and members of his field education church, Jackson Boulevard Christian Church in Chicago; faculty from Eureka College where Beau received his undergraduate degree; Cynthia Lindner, Director of Ministry Studies at the Divinity School; and Dean Kris Culp.

Trustee Hubert G. Locke has been appointed to a three-month term, July 1 to September 30, 2010, as acting president of the Pacific School of Religion. Locke, who is the Corbally Professor Emeritus and former dean of the School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, previously served as PSR's acting president in 2003.

House Scholar Laura Jennison Reed served as as a delegate with the Disciples Ecumenical Consultative Council (DECC) to the Uniting General Council of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Reformed Ecumenical Council this summer in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on June 18-28. The two groups are uniting to become the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC).

Sympathy to Howard Kennon, pastor of United Christian Church of Country Club Hills, on the death of his spouse, Doris Kennon, on July 8. Rev. Kennon and the congregation have supervised field education for a number of Disciples House students over the past years.