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From Popes to Presidents, the “Doctrine of Discovery” has empowered global leaders to change the lives of indigenous people throughout history. The Doctrine is a theological and legal concept that has legitimized the seizure of indigenous people’s lands by those from supposedly Christian nations. This
The General Board of Church and Society has a searchable database to find books that teach all children that they are created in the image of God. Celebrate with the children in your life by reading some of the beautiful books by various authors and illustrators in
The JCEMT invites you to Join our Cal-Pac Child Poverty Task Force, United University Church, Peace Camp/Peace Kids/Youth Leadership and Fair Immigration Reform Coalition in calling on our politicians to work to ELIMINATE CHILD POVERTY as we call for the following actions: Preserve and Build More Affordable Housing Increase
Grants for programs and projects that engage with the poor and combat the diseases of poverty are now available from the Justice and Compassion Essential Ministries Team. Apply online or download a paper application and submit by May 22, 2016. [tw-button size=”medium” background=”” color=”” target=”_blank”
Approximately 30 United Methodists from across the Cal-Pac Conference, joining 60 from other conferences, were encouraged to be “Stepping Out in Faith” for justice in the world at the first of many retreats of the Western Methodist Justice Movement. The retreat was sponsored, in part,
With microphone in hand, Rev. Jennifer Gutierrez addressed the crowd of 1,000 people as a clergy speaker saying, “Somos un pueblo de esperanza (We are a people of hope)!” On May Day 2014, Interim Director of Justice and Compassion Ministries of the California-Pacific Conference, Rev.
The Justice and Compassion Essential Ministry Team supports a wide variety of new and ongoing programs and projects that are connected to the people of the United Methodist Church. Please be aware that the Justice and Compassion Grants given in 2014 will be less than
True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice. Martin Luther King Jr. January 20, 2014 This year as we give God thanks for the life and incredible and transformative justice witness of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I
The Cal-Pac Annual Conference’s Justice and Compassion Essential Ministry Team has created a new TaskForce that aims to help end mass incarceration. The TaskForce was formed out of a study group that read The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness by
