Good question.

Conservative congregations and pastors must be honored and given a place
within the UCC framework. Right now they are marginalized and unsupported,
threatened, and regarded as a threat by the powers that be. That is clear
from the statements coming from the Connecticut Conference ministes and the
UCC conference ministers.

I would suggest that each conference have a non-geographically based
association through which conservative churches within the conference could relate and which would
hold pastoral standing. There should be an "evangelical associations"
throughout the UCC. Such associations should be represented at General
Synod in proportion to their numbers.

This would go a long way to stem the bleeding of churches and members out of
the UCC by giving them a safe space.. It would have a salutary effect in
providing some kind of a check upon about the policy-making propensities and
the leftward theological drift of conferences and the denomination.

It would engender a spirit of healthy competition and cooperation and could
provide the churches of the entire denomination with an alternative vision
of what the UCC might look like. Wouldn't it be interesting to see where
growth would occur?