Alexis Vaughan (2009) joined Week of Compassion as Managing Director, Domestic Operations on January 1. Alexis will play a crucial role in furthering the mission of Week of Compassion by overseeing the day-to-day activities and serving as a team leader and strategist for operations to deepen Week of Compassion’s commitment to efficient response and faithful stewardship.

First Congregational Church of Templeton, MA (UCC) has called Bill Wright (1995) as their next pastor.

The Disciples Justice Action Network (DJAN) remembered Rolland Pfile (1960) for his work at the Department of Church & Society, DHM, as part of their Legacy Week remembrances.

Stephanie Paulsell (1985) returned to Chicago to preach at the memorial service for the former dean of Rockefeller Chapel, Bernard "Bernie" O. Brown, on November 15. For Bernie, she observed, the great adventure of life was ministry, and that was the room into which he beckoned all of us who learned to be ministers under his care and the members of the ever-evolving congregations he served in this place.  So many people returned to their work with a renewed sense of vocation each week because Bernie’s sermon, or his prayer, or the loving attention he turned to them during coffee hour helped them over the threshold into an unexpected spaciousness, a room they hadn’t known was there.

Congratulations to Burton Guion (2016) and Ellie Leech (2019) who were married on October 21. Jack Veatch (2016) officiated and Victoria Wick (2017) participated in the ceremony.

Nate and Katherine Raley Alexander (2008), with big brothers Michael (2) and Parker (12), welcomed June Charlotte Alexander into the world on October 20. All are doing well at home.

Joan Bell-Haynes (1994) will conclude six and a half years as Executive Regional Minister of the Central Rocky Mountain Region in November to become Interim Regional Minister in Georgia.

Laird Thomason (1962) was honored as Minister Emeritus of North Chevy Chase Christian Church in the Capital Area.

Recent graduate Landon Wilcox (2019) has accepted a call as Senior Minister of Bethany Christian Church in Fort Washington, Maryland.

A new book by Ritch Savin-Williams (1971), Bi: Bisexual, Pansexual, Fluid, & Nonbinary Youth, was released in paperback on September 21, 2023, by New York University Press. He presented findings from the research for the book to a high school group in South Korea and, in a series of four talks sponsored in large part by the US Ambassador to Sweden, to an audience of researchers and community activists in Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö.