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Social justice ministry

Mission, Vision and Values

The Mission of the Social Justice ministry is to do good, seek justice, and correct oppression through awareness, education and action; one person, one connection at a time.

We envision a community where all creation is valued with dignity and worth.

As an expression of love, we embrace the values of  diversity, compassion, integrity, humility, and hope

 

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Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
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Awareness

Manchester UMC seeks to increase awareness about injustices in our world. 

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Education

Manchester UMC strives to offer education about the circumstances leading to injustices.

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Action

Check out opportunities to engage in action that help remedy the root causes of injustice. 

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Social Justice Events

Check out our upcoming classes and events!

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Pastor's Note

Good News From The Cemetery

In the summer of my sixteenth year, my parents procured a job for me. I suppose that they were tired of watching me mope around the house without direction and tired of me listening to rock and roll records at top volume. My parents had reached out to a lifetime

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Pastor's Note

Rock Sunday

I was in the ministry for thirty years (that’s thirty Palm Sundays!) before I realized that, unlike Matthew, Mark, and John’s gospels, in Luke’s version of Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, no one actually waved any palm branches.  How could I have missed this?  In Luke’s version, religious leaders demanded

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Pastor's Note

How Do We Negotiate Difficult Times?

If you start reading the very first page of the Bible, you will discover that God intended human beings to live in a Paradise.  But by the third chapter, all of God’s plan literally goes to Hell because the first humans listened to a talking snake. From that moment, Paradise was

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