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This fall, NETWORK's Nuns on the Bus are hitting the road and Sojourners' Rev. Adam Taylor will join them October 3–6. 🚍✨

Join the "Vote Our Future" tour and be a multi-issue voter to protect the freedoms essential for a flourishing future. Let's build an inclusive democracy where everyone thrives! 🌍🗳️

Will you be at the Zero to Three LEARN Conference this year? Make sure you catch our Director of Campaigns and Mobilizing Sandy Ovalle's talk on "Empowering Collaborations and Community Engagement." She will share the wisdom we have gathered through talking to Black and Latine church communities across the country. You won't want to miss it! Visit: https://buff.ly/3VAj0Hf

Did you miss the Pathways to Wholeness Symposium? Join us for a webinar recapping the event and highlighting some of the amazing California organizations that we featured in our Pathways to Wholeness video series. Learn more about how these organizations use their spirituality & faith to bring wholistic health into their communities. Register at https://buff.ly/4d8y1Hi

Today marks the 4th anniversary of the death of the late, great, civil rights activist and Congressman John Lewis. Sojourners SojoAction invites you to join Faiths United to Save Democracy to become an election day poll chaplain + peacekeeper and help build a thriving democracy where all Americans have the opportunity to vote. Visit buff.ly/2FFFeok and sign up for upcoming trainings.

Our very own Rev. Moya Harris will be leading a workshop on "Voting for the Generations: Reimagining Democracy and Freedom Through the Lens of Revelation 21" next week at the Hall-Proctor Institute hosted by Children's Defense Fund. If you're there, be sure to catch her session! Learn more at buff.ly/3xM75hJ

Thank you to everyone who came out to the Poor People's & Low Wage Workers' Assembly & Moral March last week! Sojourners President Adam Russel Taylor gave remarks and many of our staff marched with you. It was great to see so many folks turn up to fight poverty and bring justice to our nation. It doesn't stop here, visit vote.org to check your voter registration and continue to use your voice for change.

🍼 🇺🇸 Did you know that United States has not ratified the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)? Fourth of July is a great day to reflect on the state of our civil rights and democracy. Let's reflect on what rights children should have in their early years! If you were to dream up a bill of children's rights, what would it say? Tell us in the comments below ⏬

Join us this weekend for the ! Visit poorpeoplescampaign.org for more info.

The is just over a week away. Do you know how you’re getting there?

If you need a ride, contact your state coordinating committee today to secure a spot on a bus! https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/take-action/

💡 Join our very own Rev. Moya Harris for a panel discussion on the historical context of religion and politics and the current rise of spiritual persuasion in our democracy.
💻 On Zoom on June 24th at 7pm.
📅 You don't want to miss it! RSVP: https://buff.ly/4clyKos

Juneteenth A spoken-word performance for Juneteenth.

Did you know the collective care of children and the practice of “the village” is rooted in BIPOC communities? This week in our It Takes a Village series we learn about high-quality affordable child care in our communities. 🍼 🐣 Take action on the Child Tax Credit here: https://buff.ly/3ODdDoa

When it comes to the health and future of our democracy, children are our canaries in the coal mine. Join us on Tuesday, July 2nd, at 6:00 PM ET for "Children’s Rights and the Future of our Democracy: A Conversation with Adam Benforado."

Adam Benforado is a Drexel University law professor, children’s rights activist, and New York Times bestselling author of A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All. During our time together, you’ll learn what it means to revolutionize the way we think about children, and just how important our youngest are to our communities and the future of our country.

Register today: https://buff.ly/3z16DfA

As people of faith, we know Jesus’ vision for a flourishing future is one where “all ate and were filled”. This week in our It Takes a Village series we will explore 🍎 🌽 child nutrition and hunger in our communities. Take action by joining our webinar this Thursday at 6:00PM: https://buff.ly/459T1KY AND by filling out this action alert on the Farm Bill: https://buff.ly/3KFeQss

Mark your calendars for our June "Sacred Resistance" dates! Join us on IG Live at 11am on June 13 and 27. We hope to see you there for an inspiring time to engage in activism. 🌟

Like our nation’s gun violence crisis, orange is a color that can’t be ignored.

Join us today and to shine a light on gun violence that takes the lives of more than 44,000 people and devastates countless others in the US every single year. Learn more at wearorange.org or find an event in your area by texting ORANGE to 644-33.

🍎 🌽 Hunger doesn't take a summer vacation for young children. Join us for our first It Takes a Village webinar with our friends at Bread for the World on child nutrition and hunger on June 13th at 6pm ET! Register today: https://buff.ly/459T1KY

This Friday, June 7, is National Gun Violence Awareness Day—we will to bring awareness to the gun violence crisis, which takes more than 120 lives and wounds hundreds more EVERY SINGLE DAY in this country. Learn more and find events in your area at wearorange.org.

One week away! Next Thursday at 11am ET we will have our second installment of 'Sacred Resistance: Igniting Faith Based Activists' our series on IG live. Hop over to Instagram to take a midweek break with us to recenter and be inspired to continue working for change in your communities. 🤝

Join us tonight at 7pm ET in partnership with FUSD & North Carolina Black Alliance! Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_A3avDrSGSuyPtwfFkLdPsA?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR20hJ9IG6lbPYUVeLyA_iFWB5OWV4KUGY3P8O6j5HUMOQHhW8kbutmY_p4_aem_AWwz0I9A6wPb5KTxsIi2r92XrYa5qklv8uSbQIBuxexxfFeOT-_AD9IZ6PTItGCgbcEc61JDcT7AJB7de6s-5Bx_ #/registration

Join us Monday, May 20th for a virtual panel to examine the historical context of religion and politics and the current rise of spiritual persuasion in our democracy.
➡️Register today, http://Rebrand.ly/Religion-Politics

Have you registered yet to join this fruitful convo w/ Cessilye R. Smith Founder and CEO of Abide Women's Health Services If not now is the time! Join us tomorrow at 2pm ET online. You can register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItdOiurTgiE9ycOoMe6HwoVLzix-kmNGz_ #/registration

🌸 Last chance to catch our Embracing Mamas, Embracing Life webinar series! May 14 at 2pm ET, join Political Director Lauren Reliford as she talks with Cessilye R. Smith, Founder and CEO, Abide Women’s Health Services. They will discuss how faith advocates are creating Inns of inclusion, safety and belonging in their communities for the Marys’ who have received exclusionary treatment in society. You don't want to miss it! RSVP now: https://buff.ly/3y1xqrQ

🔦 Session spotlight! We will feature a screening of the documentary "Faith in Blackness" by Guesnerth Josué Perea and a panel discussion with Davis Rodríguez Meléndez and Margari Hill. We can't wait for the Pathways to Wholeness Symposium– happening tomorrow in Los Angeles! See you there 🫵

📣 📣 📣 Now more than ever, your Members of Congress have the power to embrace life by embracing mamas! 📣 📣 📣
This Mother’s Day, join our call for Congress to create an inn for Mary that ensures all mamas have access to nutrition supports like SNAP and WIC, access to high-quality, affordable child care and early childhood education; access to the Child Tax Credit; and embraces a path towards just treatment of migrant families! Take action now: https://buff.ly/3UzcrUK

🌸 Last chance to catch our Embracing Mamas, Embracing Life webinar series! May 14 at 2pm ET, join Political Director Lauren Reliford as she talks with Cessilye R. Smith, Founder and CEO, Abide Women’s Health Services. They will discuss how faith advocates are creating Inns of inclusion, safety and belonging in their communities for the Marys’ who have received exclusionary treatment in society. You don't want to miss it! RSVP now: https://buff.ly/3y1xqrQ

⚡ Session spotlight! Our Political Director Lauren W. Reliford will be leading a panel with experts in maternal health policy, education, and practice at the Pathways to Wholeness Symposium next week in Los Angeles. Come learn about the Black maternal health crisis and the impact of spirituality in this vital work. Hear this session and more at our in person event in Los Angeles on May 9. RSVP: https://buff.ly/4aCKFNT

💡 Session spotlight! Next week at the Pathways to Wholeness Symposium, university chaplains from the University of Southern California, Dean Varun Soni and Vanessa Gomez Brake will share their insights on the spiritual health of young people and how they build thriving communities within their student body. Hear this session and more at our in person event in Los Angeles on May 9. RSVP on our website: https://buff.ly/4aCKFNT

What would you offer Mary if you welcomed her into your inn? This is what we asked ourselves at our most recent webinar for the Embracing Mamas, Embracing Life campaign. Through the lens of Mother Mary, we considered what the mamas in our communities need and created a prayer card for Congress, since they love thoughts and prayers so much! Join us by sharing the prayer card and tagging your representatives! Don't know who your reps are? Look them up: https://buff.ly/3QqHgtv

🗣️ Save the date! May 1st is our chance to stand up for immigrant rights. Join the International Workers Day march in DC to demand dignity, respect, and work permits for all essential from . Union Station, 11:30 am. See you there!

TONIGHT! Join us for the second installment of our Embracing Mamas, Embracing Life webinar series! This will be an interactive time to imagine a better future for the 'Marys' in our lives and make our own prayer cards for Congress to tell them the needs mamas in our communities have. Come ready to learn, reflect, and co-create with us at 6pm ET. RSVP at: https://buff.ly/3Qkgpz8

Join Churches for Middle East Peace live below for tonight’s Candlelight Vigil in Lafayette Square, D.C. praying and advocating for peace and long term solution in Gaza.

White House Prayer Vigil