Justice and Witness involves us in transformative missions and promotes greening our lifestyles. The committee currently has 3 members and would like to expand to 6+ members.
- Providing for those in need
- Works with community partners
- Promoting social justice
- Working to understand the effects of colonization on Indigenous peoples as well as deepening our understandings of land acknowledgements and how they might be better realized in our lives.
- Advocacy for LGBTQ+ rights and individuals (Queer, Trans, and Gender Expansive Allyship and Advocacy group), reproductive rights, economic equality, justice for BIPOC communities, and abolition of the death penalty.
- Becoming responsible stewards of God’s creation
- Work done via Green Team
News from the Justice and Witness team:
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UCC AND FAMILY PROMISE ROTATION COMING UP IN JANUARY
UCC invites you to sign up to help with our next rotation at the Meadowlark during the week of January 5-11, 2025. We are looking for kitchen servers, donations of salads, fruit and desserts and donations of gas and grocery gift cards. You can find the sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080D4AA5AB2DA2FA7-45790687-family Please contact Sue F. for questions (ask church…
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Support the Poverello Center!
Lorraine Carlson from First United Methodist Church is seeking assistance with the following event, as well as with their ongoing Saturday sack lunch making sessions. Homeless Connect, now called Project Community Connect, will be held this year at the Missoula Public Library from 10:00 to 3:00 on March 27. They have asked First United Methodist Church…