Urge your Senators to ensure any tax package that moves through Congress includes these improvements to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Child Tax Credit (CTC). Your voice as a member of the faith community is needed to support these critical programs for low-income families.

Tell Congress to support working families now!

The United Church of Christ Washington D.C. office, in partnership with the UCC General Counsel, has created a new video resource for the Our Faith, Our Vote, campaign.

"The UCC Our Faith, Our Vote, Our Voice campaign offers resources to help congregations engage in the electoral process in a nonpartisan way, through voter education, issue education and voter empowerment and mobilization," said Sandy Sorensen, director of the UCC D.C. office.

The video, When Religion and Politics Meet, provides important information for pastors and congregations engaged in the electoral process, to ensure their participation remains non-partisan.

November 15, 2019, 1 p.m. Mountain Time, 2 p.m. Central

The UCC Worship and Witness Artists Group, a growing network of ministers, artists, and activists seeking to document, declare and demonstrate the work of the Liberating God in our times, presents an opportunity for encounter via webinar.

Sunday, November 17, 7 p.m. at the ICE Field Office, 2035 N. Central Ave., Phoenix

Taking a stand against an unjust system

In honor of their five-year anniversary and 60th visit to the ICE Office for our monthly vigil, Shadow Rock UCC invites you to join them and have music, prayers, candle lighting, and cupcakes. Our faithful action each month lifts up our immigrant brothers and sisters as well as the workers at ICE who are part of the broken system.

Smart Justice Café: Saturday, November 16, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
First Christian Church of Globe (Disciples of Christ), 401 S Broad Street, Globe, AZ 85501

Did you know Arizona has the fifth highest incarceration rate in the country? Join the Globe community for this free community breakfast to learn about the Criminal Justice System and efforts for reform throughout Arizona. You will hear stories from Arizona residents impacted by the system. All are welcome!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

CLICK HERE FOR THE FACEBOOK EVENT

Take Action: Justice and Peace Action Network's November newsletter

Mind, Body, Spirit: Linking Lives for Health and Wholeness — The Wellness Ministries of the UCC Newsletter (formerly The Faith Community Nurse Health Ministry Newsletter)

November – December 2019, Vol. 4 Issue 7

Our amicus brief was filed in the U.S. Supreme Court on October 4, challenging the administration’s rescission of DACA. Read the brief here. 127 religious organizations signed onto this brief to protect hundreds of thousands of Dreamers across the nation! 

We're calling on people of faith and people of conscience from across the country to flood the courtroom on November 20th in Tucson, Arizona to show the huge support of Scott Warren, Human Rights activist facing 20 years of jail for providing life-saving aid to migrants in the desert. RSVP HERE.

Thursday, November 14, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Ability360 Sports & Fitness Center, 5025 East Washington Street. Phoenix, AZ 85034

Join people of diverse faiths for an interfaith dialogue on climate change and the role G-d and/or humans play both in its cause and solutions. Registration is $10 and includes dinner. Dinner will be at 6:30 PM and the program will begin at 7:00 PM.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER - CLICK HERE FOR FACEBOOK EVENT

Celebrate 10 years of Arizona Interfaith Power & LIght through music, story, and refreshments. Renew your spirit with fellow travelers on this journey to heal our planet!

On Thursday, November 14 th at 6:00 PM Church of the Painted Hills will welcome representatives of the Pima County Interfaith Council for a Civic Academy dealing with the immigration issue. More details will be provided from CotPH next week.

8 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Sunday, November 10 at Shepherd of the Hills UCC, 5524 E Lafayette Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85018

Sign up for a slot at Shepherd of the Hills’ third and final Red Cross Blood Drive for the year.

Visit redcrossblood.org, sponsor code: Shepherd.

You may have met Rev. Dr. Helen Boursier during last year’s Faithful Witness at the Border. Her new book “Desperately Seeking Asylum” has been receiving excellent advance feedback, and her hope and prayer is that it will make a dent and a difference. This book includes bits from Faithful Witness at the Border, including one of the two front cover pix that she took when she went to Mexico plus several others from the week are inside the book, which is due out December 15th.

With the clock ticking on the legislative calendar, Congress is running out of time to pass the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA), otherwise known as NAFTA 2.0. Although there are some good provisions in the agreement, as it currently stands the new deal remains frightfully flawed. The USMCA inadequately protects and enforces worker rights, offers little advancement on environmental protection, and provides what is essentially a candy hand out to pharmaceutical companies in the form of patent exclusivity that will limit access to life-saving medicines for the global poor. If we do not want this horror story to become reality, now is the time to act!

The Good Shepherd UCC is cooperating with Shalom Mennonite Church in Tucson to send notes and cards of encouragement to individuals being detained by ICE in facilities here in our region. See how you can participate, too.

The 2nd Annual Border Ministries Summit provides an opportunity to share information, build partnerships and increase awareness of the important ministries taking place on both sides of the border.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre, Professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, CO.

Congress has recently introduced legislation that would expose these shell corporations and shed a light on their illegal activity. The “Corporate Transparency Act of 2019 (H.R.2513/S.1978)” is a bipartisan bill that would require corporations and limited liability companies (LLCs) to disclose their true ownership to law enforcement and financial institutions. Passing this bill would make financing criminal activity more difficult and end a practice that steals resources and wealth from communities around the globe.

November 16, 2019, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. (arrive by 9:30 a.m.)

Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, 918 So. Litchfield Road, Goodyear, AZ 85338

This training is focused on educating clergy and their parishioners on the warning signs and dangers of opioid abuse. All are welcome to participate, but space may be limited. We are hoping to recruit nurses to participate. If you register via email, please include your mailing address and phone number. Upon completion of the training, qualified attendees will receive COMPLIMENTARY NARCAN for your congregation (subject to availability).