Justice & Witness
JUSTICE AND WITNESS, MISSION AND ACTION
The United Church of Christ is a justice-loving, peacemaking, open and affirming church, long an activist church, full of concerned Christians who take action in response to suffering and need. On this page, we will post news and opportunities for action and ministry that relate to the many concerns we share as people of the Spirit.read more...
Thanks for your Neighbors In Need gifts!
FROM THE NCNC OVERVIEW BOARD FOR JUSTICE AND WITNESS
The Overview Board for Justice and Witness extends heartfelt thanks to everyone - churches and individuals who have contributed to the annual Neighbors In Need offering.
JUSTICE FOR IMMIGRANTS - Week of June 27 - July 3, 2010
“When you have come into the land that the Holy One your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess…..Then you, together with the foreigners who reside among you, shall celebrate with all the bounty that the Holy One your God has given to you and to your house.” Deuteronomy 26: 1a, 11
June 27-July 3
Join in prayer and fasting in solidarity with the people of Arizona
who are immigrants, or
who are suspected of being in the United States illegally, or
both.
Go to http://changetakesfaith.org/ca/ to sign up and sign on.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
11 am - 2 pm
Fasting and Public Prayer
(Interfaith Prayer Service at 12 noon)
In front of ICE Regional Office
630 Sansome Street, San Francisco
“From Sea to Shining Sea”
by Mary Susan Gast
Shoved beyond our fascination with our own experience,
We spin and tumble
Into a future more grand and compelling
Than anything we’d pictured
With our squinty and suspicious imaginations,
While huddled, narrow-hearted,
By the narrow hearth of the habitual.
Celebrate!
With the foreigners who abide among you
With the outsiders and outcasts,
All the bounty.
Gloria a Dios!
Sacred Conversations on Race
At the 2008 Annual Gathering, delegates adopted the following Administrative Action:
In response to the call to engage in sacred conversations on race “for the health of our nation” and for “the truth-telling and reconciliation [that are] crucial to our spiritual, physical, and emotional wholeness,” the Northern California Nevada Conference of the United Church of Christ commits itself to initiate and participate in sacred conversations on race over the course of the next two years.read more...
Empowerment for Social Justice and Peace
OVERVIEW BOARD FOR JUSTICE & WITNESS MINISTRIES
Mission Statement
The guiding principle for the work of the NCNCUCC’s Overview Board for Justice & Witness Ministries is to empower local congregations of the Conference to engage in issues of social justice that reflect the interests and needs of those local congregations and their surrounding communities.read more...
Ecumenical Advocacy Network on the Philippines
PLEASE SIGN THIS URGENT REQUEST CONCERNING HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE PHILIPPINES
January, 2009 • Your help is urgently needed to support conditions and restrictions on a Foreign Military Aid Package for the Philippines that is coming before Congress in only a few weeks.
Here, you will find a Letter of Concern that is addressed to all members of the US House of Representatives and the US Senate that asks our representatives help keep the pressure on the Philippine government concerning extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations against civil society groups in the Philippines.
With the support from you and many others, The Ecumenical Advocacy Network was able to obtain over 300 signatures on a Letter of Concern in 2007, which urged attaching Human Rights conditions and funding restrictions to US military aid to the Philippines. We were able to get human rights restrictions in the bill for Fiscal Year (FY) 2008.read more...
Becoming a Jubilee Conference / Jubilee Congregations
IMPLEMENTING OUR CONFERENCE RESOLUTION REGARDING BECOMING A JUBILEE CHURCH
Dear Friends:
At Annual Meeting 2004 our Conference voted to declare itself a Jubilee Conference. It also recommended that our local churches consider becoming Jubilee Congregations, supporting the program of Jubilee U.S.A. and 80 other countries around the world to bring debt forgiveness to the poorest nations of the world. The forgiveness of 1/3 of these debts in 2000 has resulted in freeing funds which otherwise would have gone to pay interest and principal on never-ending debts and using those funds for education, medical care, water purification and other constructive programs which are badly needed in the developing world.read more...
Justice & Witness Archive
JUSTICE AND WITNESS ARCHIVES
Justice for Immigrants - Week of June 27 - July 3, 2010
Prayers for Chile and the Pacific
Haiti: By Your Light We See Light
(note: some of the old links on archived pages will not work, especially if they take you off site)
