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.

The Overview Board strives to provide tools to local congregations that will assist them in addressing systemic issues consistent with those supported through the annual Neighbors In Need offering of the United Church of christChrist. These include poor health, racial and economic injustice, hunger, disparities in education, violence, environmental injustice and underemployment.

For more information contact:
      Allan Essex, OBJWM Chair - send email to Allan
      Rev. Drew Nettinga, OBJWM Staff - send email to Drew

Other members of the Justice & Witness Board:

•    C’Anna Bergman-Hill
•    Rev. Sophia DeWitt
•    Marijke Fakasiieiki
•    Doug Leich
•    John Meermans
•    Mary O’Donnell
•    Robert Orr
•    Rev. Dorothy Streutker

JUSTICE AND WITNESS GRANT PRINCIPLES

…Assisting congregations seeking funding for justice and witness programs…

Is your congregation interested in starting a program in your community to deal with health care for the poor? Or to raise up issues of economic justice? Hunger action? Disparities in education? Peace education or environmental justice or underemployment? …here are the guidelines you need to apply to the NCNCUCC Justice and Witness Ministries for a grant to become part of the Neighbors In Need mission program.