The JWM Insider offers a monthly snapshot of what’s going on within Justice and Witness Ministries. A number of the issues will highlight a program ministry so that our readership might expand their knowledge of a particular ministry.
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We hope that you enjoy reading this online circular and learning more about the many justice concerns to which we are called to bear witness. May the grace and peace of God be with you always.
Justice Leaders Engaging and
Developing is off and running!, Domestic Violence Issue Will Not be Gone Come November 1,
Centro Romero to Sponsor Events, Efforts Grow to Equalize Opportunity-to-Learn When NCLB is Reauthorized, News from Indian Country, Carlos Alberto Torres — one of the longest held political
prisoners, “350 Ways Campaign”
Torture in U.S. Prisons, Globalization We Can Grasp, New Policy Advocacy Intern in
Washington, DC, Communications Updates, Witness of Support for Environmental
Justice, Neighbors in Need helps
make another world possible, Economic Justice Task Force
Inside this Issue: Statement of Support for the Ryan-DeLauro “Preventing Unintended Pregnancies, Reducing the Need for Abortion and Support Parents Act,” Remember Labor Sunday this September, Franklinton Center Welcomes Back a Piece of History, Lift Every Voice and Talk!, 2010 Message on Public Education, UPCOMING OUR WHOLE LIVES TRAINING, Pathways to Promise 2009 Faith-Based National Summit on Mental Illness
Inside this issue: God is Still Speaking About Health Care (excerpt), Labor Sunday is September 6, 2009, “Affirming Diversity/Multi-Cultural Education in the Public Schools”, Immigration Update, Our Whole Lives – Goes Public in a Big Way! Oprah’s ‘O’ magazine – July 2009
New JWM Curriculum Tested, Sunday Morning at Synod, Spring Has Burst Forth at
FCAB, Still Time to Register, Synod Workshops on Economic Justice, Environmental racism workshop on Saturday, June 27 at General Synod, Ignorance is Not Bliss
Inside this issue: Gratitude, Environmental Ministries—now just a click away! Immigration Pre-Synod Event, Ecumenical Transforming No Child Left Behind conference, “Holy Water: A Conference on Environment and Faith”, Our Whole Lives-Sexuality and Our Faith, Hearing on the Abuse of Incarcerated Youth
Meet JWM Board Members, Two ministers called to focus on race in North America, Spring @ FCAB, Immigrant Rights Sunday— May 3, “Angels in Our Midst”, White House Report on Health Care Reform: Community Meetings December 2008
Racism is Tenacious, Good news on the reproductive justice and health front!, Immigrant Rights Sunday, New Hampshire Conference Prepares People to Serve, Public Policy Briefing Book for 111th Congress now available, JWM/Urban Ministries Network, Anti-Racism Trainers Gathering at FCB, Catch Up on the UCC Coffee Project, “Holy Water”
Holy Land, Holier People, From JWM Board Members, Obama Transition Team Receives Ideas for Public Education Justice, House and Senate Pass Expansion of Children’s Health Program, Anti-Racism Trainers Gather at FCAB, Immigration Pre-Synod Event
JWM Board of Directors, General Synod and Justice and Witness Awards, New UCC Public Policy Tool Coming in the New Year, Pre-Ecumenical Advocacy Days Event, March 13, 2009: Transforming No Child Left Behind, Follow-up to Survey on Sexual Abuse and Violence, WCC and WARC Come Together to Address Economic Globalization, Biking to Synod Sounds Like Fun!
Now, We Must. . ., New Staff Person on Cleveland Based Team, Thank you from OFOV, NCC Committee Sees Public Education Justice, 5th Annual Sexuality Education Training Event, The Clothesline Project, Human Trafficking Awareness Day
JWM Exec receives Re-Nomination
Bid,
Ending Child Labor on West African
Cocoa Farms: JWM Working with
the UCC’s Corporate Social
Responsibility Ministry,
UCC, Westphalia Churches meet
with World Bank,
What Can We Do to Stop Bullying?,
Speak Up Against Rape of Women
in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo,
The Seventh Annual Ecumenical
Advocacy Days,
Rebuilding Communities,
Board Approves Resolutions for
General Synod
You Can Help Make Sure Every
Vote Counts,
Imagine Another World is
Possible,
Congress Passes Bill Over
President’s Veto — Medicare
to Improve Access to Prevention,
Mental Health Services
Protecting Our Children,
YES, Sex Education in
Kindergarten,
Fall Programming at FCAB,
One for the Win Column:
Congress Restores The
Americans with Disabilities
Act,
Message On Public Education
2009
Human Trafficking,
Secrets of the Big Box,
JWM Bids Godspeed to Carl
Wallace,
Melissa Woo Elected PAAM
Moderator,
New Online Events
Registration!,
PA Church Donates to FCAB
Community,
September Missouri Gang
Summit
Program Ministries at FCAB,
Labor Sunday,
Peace Bubble on the move
again!,
Happy Birthday Medicare!,
UCC-wide surveys on domestic
and sexual violence now available
online!,
Global Trade Week of Action
Our Faith/Our Vote,
They’re Here! They’re Free!,
Busy Summer!,
Witness for Justice Op-Eds, Message on Public Education
2009
Everyone Gets Sick. Not Everyone
Has Time to Get Better,
Young People Gain More Access to
Comprehensive Sexuality
Education,
Update from Jubilee USA,
Women of All Ages Sought as
Regional Women’s Ministry
Consultants,
Staying Power: Nurturing
Spiritiual Resources for Our
Work of Love and Justice Retreat, Our Faith/Our Vote,
United Black Christians to Focus
on Poverty,
Sacred Conversation About Race
Series at Franklinton Center,
“A Broader, BOLDER Approach to
Education”,
New Staff Member
Steps for Starting the
Conversation,
2008 Neighbors in Need
Materials Coming Soon,
“Our Faith Our Vote” in New
Orleans,
Honeybee Colony at
Franklinton Center,
Pastoral Letter from New
England Conference Ministers
Calls for Abolition of Torture,
Good Deed Foundation,
God is still speaking, About
sexuality, And so are we..,
“Featured Resource for the
Month “
More Than 1 in 100 American
Adults Incarcerated
The Black and Brown
Solidarity Conference
Toxic Waste and Race
Song Contest for Trade Week
Resources to Consider on the
Coversation About Race
TESTED
If We Can Regulate a Box of
Macaroni and Cheese...We can
Regulate Tobacco!
Environmental Racism
Homeless Population in New
Orleans
Bill to Regulate Tobacco
Products Approved
Federal Budget
Ecumenical Advocacy Days
Interfaith Fair Trade Coffee
Project Update
JPANet Action Alerts
