January 31 –February 28
This course is for pastors, church planters, faith-based nonprofit leaders, seminary students, faith-based activists and organizers, religious educators, and congregational lay leaders.
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Share Stories, Open Hearts: Create movement toward racial justice. Join a webinar at 6 p.m. ET Jan. 19 to hear how sacred stories can inspire action.
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The Justice Peace and Action Network newsletter.
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Members of the Southwest Conference, let us unite in time of prayer and fasting. Voting rights are taking center stage this Martin Luther King Day weekend. Hunger strikes in Washington DC and in many local communities have begun in earnest with hope that nonviolent action will move politicians to heed the will of a supermajority of Americans who want voting rights protected by passing the combined Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Amendment Act.
Read MoreKatie Adams of our Washington D.C. office shared this digital toolkit with us for use in Arizona on MLK Day.
You'll find hashtags, copy, downloadable graphics, and a sample email for your use on social media, newsletters, and your website.
Read More“Yesterday, at a January 6 peace vigil, I watched 70-year-old-plus veterans and grandmas with stern faces form a human wall between insurrection supporters and the stage from which we were speaking.”
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Global Ministries and the Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB) invite you to participate in a virtual pilgrimage to Bangladesh! Join us to learn about how people along the coastlines of Bangladesh are responding to the challenges of climate change, rising ocean levels, salination of land, frequent natural disasters, and consequent disruptions and displacement.
Read MoreAs 2022 dawns, here are 10 prominent items on the year’s horizon for the United Church of Christ. They’re examples of what the UCC’s national ministries will focus on — in collaboration with Conferences and local churches — in the church’s quest for “a just world for all.”
Read MoreI-HELP is the Interfaith Homeless Emergency Lodging Program with Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest. Church of the Palms hosts I-HELP guests on their campus. A typical I-HELP guest is someone who is ready to move out homelessness.
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Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib will be joining our webinar panel focused on how to compel Congress to act in 2022. Rep. Tlaib will be joined by an outstanding panel that includes the Rev. A. Kazimir Brown from the Poor People's Campaign, the Rev. Chibuzo Nimmo Petty from For Our Future, and Kim McMurray from Indivisible.
Read MoreWould you like to offer emotional and spiritual care to people impacted by disaster? Apply to serve on the UCC Emotional and Spiritual Care in Disaster Team.
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ARIZONA’S PEACE AT THE POLLS MOVEMENT: building confidence in our future elections by assuring peaceful elections, protecting voting rights and defending democracy.
Join a coalition of organizations and community leaders calling for Peace At the Polls at the January 6th Vigil for Democracy.
Read MoreThe National Council of Churches has produced a fact sheet: A Christian Approach to Vaccine Hesitancy to aid church and faith leaders in having courageous conversations about being vaccinated. The fact sheet also provides a scriptural basis for a compassionate response to vaccine hesitancy and provides responses to Biblical misinformation around vaccination.
Read MoreChurch of the Red Rocks has done some humanitarian work (building houses) with Constru Casas in past years. Here are a couple of videos about this wonderful project.
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Friday, January 14 – Saturday, January 15
Deacon Joan Crawford is providing an online opportunity, "In Solidarity: Antiracism Virtual Workshop" sponsored by the ECC Truth & Reconciliation Commission.
Read Morewritten by Gayle Lawson, Church of the Beatitudes:
Church of the Beatitudes’ Faith in Action committee wrapped up 2021 with a bang! Our Thanksgiving Food Drive resulted in 704 lbs. of food and $1050.00 being donated to Nourish PHX. Then we collected 314 pairs of socks which were given to Shoebox Ministry. Last but not least, Church of the Beatitudes made sure three families at Maryland School will have loads of presents and a Christmas dinner under their trees.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
Read MoreHelp yourself: FAQs, action alert, sample op-ed, and sample social media posts. All available here.
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With inspiration from Frederick Douglass who once asserted that "power concedes nothing without a demand," this UCC webinar will feature organizers from three of the organizations that have been most successful in demanding moral action from Congress. Sign up now.
Read MoreConference Ministers and Disaster Coordinators are contacting churches to learn of potential damages. Generous support of One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) is enabling early response.
Members of the UCC Emotional and Spiritual Care Team are on standby. Kentucky and other VOAD partners including the UCC are meeting daily to coordinate clean up efforts.
Cash is the best way to help. Designate 2021 Severe Storms / December Tornados.
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