We welcome the Rev. Cally Rogers-Witte as Co-Executive of the UCC/Disciples’ Global Ministries and Executive Minister of the UCC’s Wider Church Ministries.

We welcome the Rev. Cally Rogers-Witte as Co-Executive of the UCC/Disciples’ Global Ministries and Executive Minister of the UCC’s Wider Church Ministries.

Rogers-Witte was the UCC’s Southwest Conference Minister for 10 years. Prior to that, she was pastor of Community UCC in Raleigh, N.C. for 18 years. In the 1970s, she worked as a regional associate with the former Office for Church Life and Leadership. Rogers-Witte has attended two international assemblies of the World Council of Churches, in Australia (1991) and Zimbabwe (1998). In the early 1970s, she was the director of Christian education at the American Church in Paris, France.

Rogers-Witte has chaired the UCC Insurance Board and served as a trustee of UCC-related Elon University in North Carolina. She is also a past president of the New Mexico Council of Churches and the North Carolina Council of Churches, and a former board member of the National Council of Churches.

A graduate of Mary Baldwin College in Virginia, she received an M.A. in religion from Yale Divinity School and the Master of Divinity degree from UCC-related Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif.