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"I will pour down rain on a thirsty land, showers on the dry ground. I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring and my blessings on your children. They shall spring up like a green tamarisk, like poplars by a flowing stream." —Isaiah 44:3-4

The promise of God's blessings for children has been affirmed down the generations of faith from the time that God first promised to Abraham and Sarah that their offspring would be as numerous as the stars. Jesus not only welcomed the child, but asked everyone to enter into the eternal realm of God's blessings as children. Children are not only invited, but show us the way.

Children have the right to develop spiritually, intellectually, physically, emotionally, socially, and culturally, and to live in conditions of freedom and dignity. Because children are powerless and often live with adults who are poor and have little voice, there is a tendency not to see or hear them. Too often, their basic needs go unfulfilled.

The United Church of Christ has a long tradition of affirming public policies which generate and distribute resources in ways that provide all people, including children, with the potential to live healthy and productive lives. The covenant of God is with all children of our nation and the world, not just with the children who share our church life.  

Justice and Witness Ministries convenes a Children's Table several times each year to gather all staff in the national setting of the denomination whose work connects with issues affecting children.  From this web page you can explore the ways the United Church of Christ is creating programming for and about children and engaging in advocacy on their behalf.

Key Resources on Justice for Children in the Economy and in Public Education

Here is a new resource intended  to challenge the way our elected officials and the candidates for public office talk about public policy around our schools. In Repairing the Breach: A Just Agenda for Public School Reform—Questions for Federal & State Candidates in this 2012 Election Year, the front page explores a little background on the issues. The back page is a series questions you can carry with you to a candidates' night or use as you write a letter to someone already serving in public office. The questions will require candidates and public officials to probe beneath the rhetoric and discuss their core values regarding our children and our public schools.

In April, which is Child Abuse Awareness Month, the Rev. Lois Powell explores the many ways we abuse the needs of children these days in a poignant Witness for Justice.

What is The Situation of Children in this Recession? 

The UCC Justice & Witness Ministries 2012 Message on Public Education is now posted on-line.  This year's edition of this annual resource is titled, "Why the Conventional Wisdom on School Reform is Wrong and Why the Church Should Care."  We produce this annual resource as the school year begins to help members of our congregations explore pressing concerns for public education in the United States in the coming year.

Important resources

Mission Project . . .Haiti Baby Kit

Mission:1 Resources

"Helping Hungry People" curriculum from Bread For the World

Resources to compliment the curriculm:

Helping Hungry People Maze

Helping Hungry People Criss Cross Puzzle

Helping Hungry People Letter Tiles

Worship Activity Sheets for Children

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Ecumenical Children's Curricula

Children's Sabbath

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