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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Join with us in asking your Senators to support these historic investments by passing the Build Back Better bill to fulfill their moral responsibility to the nation. Now is the time to address the roots of our country's injustices, and to honor the sacred call to recognize the dignity and worth of our neighbor and creation.
Read More“It has been a critical year for our ministry. Most importantly, the United States started processing asylum claims, and every one of the over 200 migrants who had been waiting for the entire pandemic made it safely and legally across the border to begin their asylum process. Laughter and tears accompanied every departure, as family after family passed through their credible fear interview and joined family or friends in the U.S. as they await further determinations. Over 500 people have now made it through in 2021 so far. As people enter the United States, La Casa takes in new families, with our shelter generally housing 120-150 people. More than 50% are children—in fact, in October of this year, four babies were born to parents at La Casa, including one who was actually born in our dormitory!”
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Read the JPANet December newsletter.
Read MoreAs a justice-seeking people, we cannot remain silent while state laws transform us into a map of “haves and have-nots” with regard to access to reproductive health services. Protecting access to the full range of reproductive health care for all – including safe, legal abortion – is an imperative rooted in our deeply-held faith beliefs in social justice, moral agency, and religious liberty for all. Please contact your member of Congress to support passage of the Women’s Health Protection Act so any person is able to make their own medical decisions based on their values and with the consultation of their medical team, and without barriers imposed by economic status, employment status, or zip code.
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Leaders from OpenSecrets and Public Citizen will join in this next webinar along with a leader in the campaign for congressional candidates to take the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge. Faith communities can make a difference in protecting our democracy from the pollution of fossil fuel money.
Even if you can’t make the scheduled time of 1 pm ET on Wednesday, December 8th, still sign up, and you’ll receive a recording.
Read MoreUCC Haiti Appeal: The UCC Haiti Appeal seeks to raise $100,000 for immediate relief and longer-term recovery for thousands of Haitians reeling from the 7.2 earthquake August 14 followed by Tropical Storm Grace. More Information/How to Help.
UCC COVID Relief Appeal: In response to the growing COVID-19 crises facing many poorer countries and communities, UCC is seeking $150,000 for its COVID Relief Appeal for food, hygiene kits, personal protective equipment and other aid to the most vulnerable to reduce the virus’s spread.
UCC 2021 Severe Storms Appeal: Nearly one in three Americans lives in a county hit by a weather disaster in the past three months, the Washington Post reported on September 4. Long-term recovery and rebuilding needs will be enormous. Best way to help? Money.
Climate change most directly impacts people of color and the poor. We must stand together to change this. Giving Tuesday is your chance. Enact Climate Justice with a gift to the UCC. Funds raised will be directed to
Honor the Earth, an indigenous organization working to saving our planet (70%)
The UCC Council for Climate Justiceto enhance our advocacy and education efforts (30%)
The “Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act of 2021” (S.2956) bill, which was already introduced in the House as H.R. 4693, would prioritize addressing malnutrition across global health and other food systems, require robust monitoring, and authorize USAID to advance specifically targeted programs to prevent and treat malnutrition.
As a nation of plenty, we can and must do more to ensure that all are provided basic nutrition and dignity. Passage of this legislation would ultimately save lives and highlight ways that working for the common good can overcome partisan divides.
Read MoreFrom Jeremy Zegas, Regional Political Organizer for Healthcare Rising Arizona:
"For Giving Tuesday, we are looking to set up a number of signature-gathering locations around the state so that we can maximize our donation to RIP Medical Debt."
Please contact Jeremy at jzegas@healthcarerisingaz.org or 480-849-4236 if your church can provide a location on November 30.
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