Justice & Witness
Neighbors In Need
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.
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...
Justice LED
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...
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)
