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We invite you to our three-day transformative gathering centered on the theme of “A New Heart: Crossing the Threshold." This year’s annual meeting aims to equip clergy and church leaders with the tools, inspiration, and faith-based strategies to address today's pressing chaotic times. Together, we’ll explore how the church can lead in advocating for equity, compassion, and lasting change. Our 2026 event will feature a film screening, an awards banquet, intriguing workshops, and so much more! Please visit our Annual Meeting page for all the details!

 
 
 
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Join the Prophetic Witness Campaign
Join the Prophetic Witness Campaign

The Prophetic Witness Campaign is a statewide, faith-rooted effort organized by Arizona Faith Network & Corazón AZ to protect human dignity, strengthen community safety, and bear public witness to the sacred worth of every person. At the same time, unjust and immoral immigration policies continue to separate families, criminalize asylum, and place already-vulnerable communities in constant fear and harm.

We invite clergy and faith leaders across Arizona to join this shared work of unity, nonviolence, and moral courage. Sign up using the link below and you will receive updates about Faithful Witness Gatherings, monthly trainings, public vigils, action opportunities, and ways to participate locally and statewide.

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Coming Soon: In-Person Trainings

If you're interested in attending an in-person training event for the Prophetic Witness Campaign in either Tucson (Feb. 17 at 6:00 pm) or Phoenix (Feb 19 at 6:00 pm), please click here to RSVP and to receive more details.

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Racial Justice Ministries offer Black History resources for the month and year-round
Racial Justice Ministries offer Black History resources for the month and year-round

by Kayla Berkey | published on Feb 3, 2026

This February, United Church of Christ Racial Justice Ministries are offering the invitation to commit to a focused study of Black history both this month and throughout the year.

Black History Month resources are available for the month of February that include a Call to Worship incorporating the names of “ancestors who made a way out of no way with God before them, beside them, and lovingly guiding succeeding generations.”

These resources can also be used for the UCC’s designated Racial Justice Sunday, which falls on Feb. 8, the second Sunday in February.

Black History 365 resources are available to intentionally engage with Black history all year. These offer a four-part spiritual journey of reading, listening, and sitting with a long history of God’s human family from the continent of Africa. It is divided into four sections that focus on human migration around the globe, “looking back and moving forward” with Sankofa, the creation of humans, and exploring virtual spaces dedicated to Black history.  

The four Black History 365 sections are intended to align with quarterly learning sessions, with the invitation for people to develop a plan with congregations, groups, or individually to participate together throughout the year.

“Black History 365 is a gateway to remember we are gifted and diverse people, culturally and ethnically. We are made in the image of God and members of God’s human family,” said the Rev. Velda Love, minister for Racial Justice.

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Jottings 2/9/2026
Church News
Jottings 2/9/2026
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Wende reads your church newsletters and other materials and compiles the highlights to keep us up-to-date on the amazing work happening at the Southwest Conference churches and beyond.

What’s happening at YOUR church? Tell us about it! Just write up an article and submit it to Wende by Thursday at noon to have it included in the following Monday’s Loop.

Tag SWC and Wende on Facebook and Instagram to get our attention so we can share your posts! We’re @swcucc and Wende is @yeswende.

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