"Love God, Love Neighbor, Love Creation."
We offer many opportunities to live out your faith, embody God’s love, and allow for hope to emerge throughout Santa Fe and the world. We invite you to join us in service to the world!
Give a Drink of Water?
Give Up a Dollar a Day in Lent
for Water in Northern New Mexico Communities
Forty days for forty dollars. Can you do it? This Lent, we invite you to give up a dollar (or more) a day to provide clean drinking water for poor rural communities in Northern New Mexico. With the guidance of United member Blanca Surgeon, United can help underwrite a new clean water system for the villages around Glorieta and throughout our region. We invite you and your family to "give up a dollar a day for forty days," i.e., $40. We hope you'll include this in your spiritual discipline this Lent. A dollar a day during Lent can mean the precious and life-giving gift of water for our brothers and sisters throughout northern New Mexico.
In the Wings
2nd Annual Faith and the Environment Conference
Sat -Sun, March 24-25
We welcome leading environmentalist and author Bill Debuys as the keynoter speaker for United's second "Interfaith Faith and the Environment" conference. (Keynote on Saturday, March 24 at 4:00 pm.) More details later, but save the date and spread the word!
The Great Aridness Study Group
In preparation for the Faith and Environment conference, we'll offer a 4-week study group in March on Bill DeBuys' new book, The Great Aridness (probably on Tuesdays, 5:15-6:15). If interested, please speak with Talitha or Brandon.
Upcoming Outreach Opportunities:
The United Church of Santa Fe continues to respond with deep commitment and sharing for special fundraisers and emergency requests throughout the year. Since the beginning of 2011, we have responded to the following appeals:
- Fire relief: $ 1,388
- Haiti relief, 40 to 50 baby kits were sent along with $ 2,090
- Interfaith Overflow Shelter: 60+ volunteers fed more than 90 people in one week
- Japan tsunami relief: $ 2,225
- Joplin Emergency Relief: $250
- On-going, in-kind donations:
- Knitwits knitting and crocheting group
- Agua Fria and Salazar schools, 20 volunteers giving 250 hours monthly
- One Great Hour of Sharing: $ 2,480
- St. Elizabeth's Shelter: 25-30 meals per month and youth volunteer hours
- Summer food drive:
- Food Depot, 55 lbs
- St. Elizabeth Shelter, 60lbs
- Youth Shelter, 62 lbs.
This is in addition to the 10% of our pledge income that is distributed to local agencies. If you want more information about volunteer opportunities, please contact Brandon (988-3295).
Dinner at St. Elizabeth Shelter
Dinner at St. Elizabeth Shelter in September will be on Tuesday, the 20th at 5:30 pm. Questions? Contact Brandon (988-3295). St. Elizabeth Shelter is located on Alarid St. (804) near La Choza.
Agua Fria/Salazar Volunteers Needed
United Church provides a number of volunteers each year who volunteer in a variety of ways. If you are interested in volunteering in this capacity please contact Georgia Carson (9829147) or pick up a volunteer form in the Community Room.
Aid for East Africa (Flip-Flops and Sandals)
Learning to share and care as Jesus did is an important part of United's Children and Youth Ministry programming. This fall the youth, along with the children, will be collecting new sandals and flip-flops for children and youth in the refugee camps. Further, the Sunday morning children's offering will go toward relief in East Africa.
We are inviting the entire congregation to donate new flip-flops and sandals. The collection bin is located in the Community Room.
United Church of Santa Fe sponsors ongoing church-based outreach ministries with volunteers and financial support:
- Salazar-Agua Fria School Partnership
- Adult Mission Trips
- Santa Fe Alternative Gift Market
- Youth Mission Trip to Navajoland
United also advocates for human rights for GLBT persons and immigrants, the environment and other concerns.
Many members serve on nonprofit boards including our Senior Minister, Talitha Arnold, who currently serves on the Bioethics Committee for St. Vincent’s Hospital, the Alumni Board of Yale Divinity School, and the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention. She was a founding member of the city Children’s and Youth Commission, President of Habitat for Humanity, and the Ministerial Alliance. Associate Minister Brandon Johnson serves on the Salazar Partnership Board and the Interfaith Leadership Alliance.
“... but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?”
Micah 6:8
