Faith In Action
The Religious Services as Essential Services bill that we saw last year is back in a new form this year. The SWC has opposed this bill previously and has registered our opposition this time around too.
I am inviting you to consider opposing the bill based on the talking points included with this message. The bill legalizes discrimination of every kind and exempts religious organizations and leaders from almost all laws if they claim religious freedom.
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From Pima County Interfaith:
The Arizona legislature is putting public education at risk again. Please attend a new civic academy that will inform you about two critical issues happening NOW.
Read MoreThe Southwest Conference has signed on to this letter, working to change predatory lending laws in New Mexico.
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Does your congregation desire to be more prepared for disasters, both to protect yourselves and to help your neighbors in time of need? Willing to Respond is for you!
This new and rapidly growing network is providing congregations with practical tools, training and relationships, including online resources and connection to denominational, ecumenical and other disaster response resources. It's simple to access and easy to register.
Trafficking in persons is a crime against humanity and ultimately a sin. The violence done to the physical, psychological and spiritual wellbeing of people who are forced into slavery is a violation of the call of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to love our neighbors as ourselves.
Read MoreFrom the Sahuarita Food Bank & Community Resource Center (SFB-CRC):
After six years of dreaming, planning, and fundraising, SFB-CRC has already taken that first big step into the new facility under a temporary certificate of occupancy. Pantries have been stocked and food items are collected from six grocery stores. We are also providing utility assistance, SNAP sign-up, and assistance in avoiding eviction. 300 households have been served in the first week of January and up to 400 backpacks were distributed.
Read MoreNeeds for donations, volunteers, and paid positions.
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Our faith tells us that each person bears the image of God and each person’s life is valuable. We are called to oppose violence and abuse and ensure the protection and safety of others.
Please join with us in contacting your Senators to tell them to support the bipartisan consensus reauthorization bill to safeguard and uphold the programs supported by VAWA.
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Because disasters often expose, widen, and exacerbate the gaps of pre-existing disparities, it is essential that communities of faith prioritize and hold fast in their commitments to equity and justice. This webinar will equip faith communities with the knowledge and awareness required to act in accordance with our values.
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from Irene Willis Hassan, MDiv, Minister for Refugee and Migration Ministries. Global H.O.P.E. – Humanitarian. Opportunities. Progress. Empowerment.
Here’s a list of upcoming offerings to help assist you as you continue in relationship with your new neighbors.
Read MoreJanuary 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.
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