Mainstream Christian Church Viability
Rev. Dr. Carrie Call, PhD, UCC CEO
Mainstream Christian Church Viability
Introduced by Scott Owen
Rev. Dr. Carrie Call, PhD, Transitional Conference Minister for Penn Central Conference, UCC
Rev Call has responsibility for the administration of Penn Central Conference and the spiritual care of its pastors, churches, members and congregations.
Carrie served as our Transitional Conference Minister since August 2019 and was voted in as Settled Conference Minister one year later. She came to us from Lancaster Theological Seminary where she worked since October of 2016 as the Executive Director of Development and Communication. Prior to the Seminary she served the Indiana-Kentucky Conference of the United Church of Christ as an associate conference minister from 2012-2016. She also worked for 10 years at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana, as an instructor in the departments of Psychology and Education and director of the Office for Civic and Social Engagement. From 1992-97 she was pastor of Old First Church, Middletown, N.J.
Carrie holds three degrees from Cornell University: B.S. in Rural Sociology (1986), M.S. in Development Sociology (2000), and Ph.D. in Education (2004). She received a Master of Divinity with a concentration in Systematic Theology from Colgate-Rochester Divinity School in 1990, and was ordained as a minister with full standing in the United Church of Christ in 1994. She currently serves the denomination in a variety of ways: On the United Church Board (where she is chair of the Task Force on Clergy Financial Wellness), on the UCC Historical Council; and a co-facilitator of the UCC History and Polity Teachers Network. She is author of Spiritually Healthy Divorce: Navigating Disruption with Insight & Hope (Skylight Paths Publishing, 2010). She lives in Lancaster with her husband Randall, who is Professor Emeritus of Reformation Studies at the University of Notre Dame as well as an adjunct faculty member in Church History at Lancaster Theological Seminary.
Penn Central Conference UCC:
https://pccucc.org/staff-directory/
Linkedin: Carrie Call, UCC:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrie-call-520b8061/