Southeast Conference Welcomes Janet Weidler, Pastor of Pilgrim UCC, Birmingham
Pilgrim Congregational UCC, Birmingham has called Janet Weidler as their pastor to succeed Bud Precise who is retiring.  Janet comes to us from Hendersonville, NC.  Prior to that she had served as an intentional interim minister in Maine, and before that in Penn Northeast Conference.  Janet was raised in Birmingham, as is excited by the vision and new possibilities that lie before Pilgrim Congregational UCC which has recently purchased, renovated, and moved into a new facility.

Millard Fuller’s Autobiography Available
Many know Millard Fuller as the founder of Habitat for Humanity, and later the founder of the Fuller Center for Housing.  However, too few know that Millard was raised in a United Church of Christ congregation, the Congregational Christian Church of Lanett, AL.  He and his wife Linda went to the Congo as a missionaries under the auspices of what has become Global Mission Partnership of the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Millard often credited the United Church of Christ for opening his eyes to the world.  The Fuller Center for Housing has just made available the autobiography of Millard’s early life, Millard Fuller, Beyond the American Dream.  Woven through this story are the names of people and places dear to the Southeast Conference. If you wish to order it, it is available from www.fullercenter.org/store, or call 229.924.2900. You may also link here for flyer. Read the story of one of the sons of the Southeast Conference, and learn again how through him, the world has been touched and the lives of thousands changed.