Faith In Action
Our friends at the Apache Nation, San Carlos Reservation, need our help. Please help if you are able.
The Watch Fire has seriously damaged homes, property and the environment on the reservation. The AZcentral link to most recent report is HERE.
To assist with donations, please contact the San Carlos Apache Tribe Emergency Response Commission at 928-475-2008.
As part of the UCC’s Our Faith Our Vote campaign, UCC members are encouraged to consider becoming a trained Poll Chaplain for the 2024 election. This training is offered through the Faiths United to Save Democracy (FUSD) campaign, of which the UCC is a sponsor. These multifaith, multi-racial poll chaplains (ordained and lay leaders) will help promote the peace and provide a calming and moral presence at vulnerable polling places. Register now for one of the trainings that begin in July. You can also get more information about registering to be a poll worker here.
We need more than overdose prevention. People who use drugs deserve access to care and justice long before an overdose event. There are loads of resources linked in this article.
from First Church UCC Phoenix:
None of us knew what to expect after President Biden issued an executive order on June 4 allowing Border Patrol agents to shut down all asylum processing when the number of migrant crossings in between ports of entry exceeded 2,500 per day over a 7-day period. Those of us who volunteer at the Welcome Center and Pastor Martha's knew that the number of arrivals at both shelters had been dropping for some time, due to the greater presence of the Mexican government on the southern side of our border, but what would this new U.S. government policy mean?
The event is organized by the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Interfaith Power & Light, NM-EP, New Mexico Conference of Churches, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Soka Gakkai International-USA and Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium.
Join us in our Peace Movement to grasp the urgency of nuclear abolition and explore immediate actions. Enjoy captivating exhibitions, music, speakers, and moments of reflection and prayer. All are warmly welcomed.
Admission is free. Reservations highly recommended.
Sunday, July 14th - Doors open at 2 pm
Saint John XXIII Catholic Community, 4831 Tramway Ridge Dr NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111
Many of you were first introduced to the Decentering Whiteness Taskforce during our Annual Meeting. The Decentering Whiteness Taskforce hosted the panel discussion “Decentering Whiteness 101.” We were thrilled with the amount of interest that we received after the panel discussion AND we learned that many folks were confused about who and what we are. Read this article by Rev. Rhonda Newby-Torres (chair) to learn more.
From Bishop William J. Barber, II, DMin and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis:
In less than a month, thousands of impacted people, poor & low wage workers, and allies will join us in the nation’s capital for the June 29th “Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & Moral March on Washington D.C. & to the Polls” to demand that those running for elected office this year embrace a moral public policy agenda.
This Monday, June 17, please join us for a National Virtual Rally from anywhere in the United States by watching a livestream we will be posting on our website.
During the National Virtual Rally, we’ll be taking a moment to celebrate the powerful work of hundreds of impacted people and organizers who’ve helped build this movement and who are making the upcoming assembly in Washington DC a reality.
Racial Justice Ministries and Join the Movement toward Racial Justice invite you to honor and celebrate Juneteenth this year by remembering and discovering the healing practices that sustained freedom in the bones of our ancestors, before and after emancipation. Through music and prayer, poetry and art, reflection, and ritual, may we find a medicine bundle, a libation, a Brush Harbor and a clearing, a poultice that teaches us the sound of freedom, echoing from legacies of healing and singing futures of wholeness.
The United Church of Christ’s Our Faith Our Vote Campaign is our ongoing commitment to equip you with the tools for nonpartisan faithful engagement in our democratic process. The campaign is made up of three main components; voter registration, issue education, and voter empowerment. The 2024 Our Faith Our Vote campaign asks the church to answer the call of 1 John 3:18 to “let us not love with words or speech, but in action and in truth,” by “voting with love.” Vote with love for creation, for our neighbors both here and abroad, for a just peace, for repair and reconciliation of the brokenness of our nation. And encourage your family, friends, and community to do the same. The 2024 election season is well underway, so please check this page for updates to learn how you can “vote with love” this year.
The next UCC Climate Action Assembly will feature Cora Wynet, who is the Senior Director of Research at Rewiring America, the nation's leading electrification nonprofit, focused on electrifying our homes and communities. She will help us further the UCC's commitment to electrifying our churches and the homes of our members.
Every two months the UCC Council for Climate Justice hosts a Climate Action Assembly to further collective efforts on three endeavors launched this year: the Freedom from Plastics Campaign, the Electrification Checklist Initiative, and the Vote for Climate Hope Campaign. Each of these programs is rooted in recent General Synod resolutions. Climate Action Assemblies are open to all members of the UCC. Register to join us!