The Southwest Conference has signed on to this letter, working to change predatory lending laws in New Mexico.
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How is your church "Willing to Respond"?
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.
JPANet: Take a Stand Against Human Trafficking
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.
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From 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.
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Needs for donations, volunteers, and paid positions.
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JPANet: Support the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization of 2022
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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UCC Webinar—When Disaster Strikes: Faith Communities Responding with Equity and Justice
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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Boundary training for ministry with refugees, Ramadan workshop series, and more offerings
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 MoreDecolonizing Church: Black History Month Edition
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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Storytelling and Racial Justice webinar
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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JPANet: January Newsletter
The Justice Peace and Action Network newsletter.
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A Call to Pray and Fast
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 MoreMLK voting rights resources
Katie 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 MoreSome thoughts from our January 6 vigil
“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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Resilience and Innovation in the Face of Climate Change: A Virtual Pilgrimage to Bangladesh
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 MoreNational ministries eager to work with local churches on full 2022 agenda
As 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 MoreChurch of the Palms UCC partners with I-HELP
I-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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Rep. Rashida Tlaib to Join Webinar
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 MoreCare for Emotional, Spiritual Needs in Disaster
Would 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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Peace At The Polls: Arizona January 6 Vigil for Democracy
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.
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