🌹 Roses are red, 🪻 Violets are blue, 🌐 Is your church website working for you? 💔 If your website is breaking your heart, we may be able to help with a new website through UCC Everywhere! 💻 More info. about UCC Everywhere & tips to help update & organize your website: https://ow.ly/6mi450YeGrj

🦄 When young people are respected for who they are, they’re more likely to feel safe, connected, and supported. Belonging is built through inclusive education. 🦉 UCC (partnered with UUA) offers an inclusive, comprehensive sex education curriculum, Our Whole Lives (OWL): https://ow.ly/4B7u50YeGqt

🙏🏾 Good Morning Lord, As we take on this beautiful day that You so graciously gifted, may we look for every opportunity to share Your unconditional love with ALL of Your children. -Karl Heilman 👉🏾 Share your prayers with us: https://ow.ly/ZboN50XVE3x

This summer, join UCC youth from across the country in Washington, D.C. for "Youth Voices: Bold Faith" a week-long immersion in faith-based advocacy, justice, and community! Space is limited. Applications due Feb 22nd. ▷ Learn more: ow.ly/fx2g50Y9Xug ▷ Apply here: ow.ly/Cg8S50Y9Xuh

🗺️ Regional gaps in sex ed. policy & implementation don’t exist in isolation — they intersect with inequities in healthcare access, economic opportunity & education. 👉🏾 Help remove the barriers by offering UCC's comprehensive sex ed. curriculum, Our Whole Lives (OWL): https://ow.ly/OoFb50Yeo8R

🙏🏾 God, Loving God, we humbly ask that your wisdom be with the leaders making decisions of diplomacy. Guide them to imitate the peace you give us in Christ. Amen. -Anonymous 👉🏾 Share your prayers with us: https://ow.ly/5TWW50Yehv5

🖤 This workshop examines how racism functions as a system of power rather than individual bias, and how Black women, including Black trans and queer women, experience its impacts in work, leadership, relationships, and movement. 👉🏾 Register to join us: https://ow.ly/Nzc850YcSrB

🧠 Mental wellness & sexual health are deeply connected. Inclusive, comprehensive sex ed. reduces shame, builds self-esteem & supports young people’s overall well- being. 🦉 UCC (& The Unitarian Universalist Association) offers an inclusive, comprehensive sex ed. curriculum: https://ow.ly/LzqP50YcPPq

🙏🏾 May the Holy Spirit rain down peace, love & charity. God calls us to choose humanity over greed. Please bind the evil spirit of superiority, injustice, racism, & authoritarianism in our elected leadership. -Anonymous 👉🏾 Share your prayers with us: https://ow.ly/XwjB50YcKIt

🧠 This week, in her "On My Mind Today" blog, Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia Thompson, GMP/CEO of UCC, responds to the overtly racist images of President Barack & Michelle Obama publicly shared by President Trump on official government social media channels. 👉🏾 Full post: https://ow.ly/zRPz50Ycwop

❤️ This year, we're celebrating the Special Mission Offerings with a theme of LOVE. Your congregation is invited to participate in giving as our shared commitments to global, justice-oriented & emerging ministries are supported & celebrated. UCC's Special Mission Offerings: https://ow.ly/zXJZ50YcjXY

📣TOMORROW! 🌎 Faith communities are actively responding to the U.S. invasion of Venezuela as the U.S. seeks to control Venezuela's oil. In working to expand and strengthen these efforts, what do faith communities need to know about the situation? 👇🏾 Register: https://ow.ly/uJY250YabUS

🗣️ Curiosity, communication & respect are skills we use everyday. Consent education gives young people the tools to practice these skills-in friendships, families & relationships. Consent ed. is part of the UCC's comprehensive sex ed. curriculum, Our Whole Lives (OWL): https://ow.ly/3RBz50Ycf2h

🙏🏾 This is a prayer my nine year old granddaughter and I say together: “Dear Jesus, you are the Prince of Peace. Help us find Peace. Because we people are very bad at it. Amen.” -Juliana Holm Furnace, PA 👉🏾 Share your prayers with us: https://ow.ly/FhW950Yc0Mj

📰 The Rev. Jennifer Sowell, an ordained minister in the UCC with more than two decades of pastoral leadership experience, has been nominated to serve a full term as the next Associate General Minister, Love of Church! 📰 Read the full announcement & special meeting info: https://ow.ly/uEY950YbXim

✅ Comprehensive sex education equips young people with the tools they need to navigate relationships, prioritize their well-being & thrive. 🦉 UCC offers a comprehensive sex-ed. curriculum, Our Whole Lives (OWL), which can be found here: https://ow.ly/E6q250YbRe9 #SexEdSavesLives #SEWOA26

🙏🏾 Eternal God, When we find ourselves despairing the state of the world and disappointed & fearful of violence & suffering, draw near to us. Surround us & all who suffer, with your love. Amen -Rev. Barbara Davis 👉🏾 Do you have a prayer to share? https://ow.ly/KlOW50YbAIr

🙏🏾 God, help me make family members of people I meet in my everyday life. Let my words & actions show them I want them in my community. Break down cultural, political & economic barriers that keep me from sharing & trading with them. 👉🏾 Add your prayer: https://ow.ly/2nRh50Yb7lG

“I worry about my friends & hope they have people they can talk to so they can find a way to stay safe. When they're scared, I will try to help them feel better.” –Xavier, 4th grader Xavier’s reflection on ICE visiting his school & resources for families: https://ow.ly/XpVW50YaQIN

🙏🏾 Loving Creator, May we find peace, knowing we worked to bridge divides. Soften our hearts, allowing kindness to shape the world. Let tomorrow be a fresh canvas, creating a community grounded in compassion & unity. -Douglas Hearn 👉🏾 Add your prayer: https://ow.ly/xqCM50YaG6a

A message from Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia Thompson, GMP/CEO, for Black History Month. Be sure to check out our Black History Month 365 resources for a self-guided or group study: https://ow.ly/NocU50YavMm 🎦 https://ow.ly/e13t50YavLU

🌎 Faith communities are actively responding to the U.S. invasion of Venezuela as the U.S. seeks to control Venezuela's oil. In working to expand and strengthen these efforts, what do faith communities need to know about the situation? 👇🏾 Register: https://ow.ly/bGpU50Ya7n2

🙏🏾 God of many names, Move through our hearts, God. Let justice flow, compassion rise, and remind us: silence is never neutrality. Heal what we have broken. Amen -Reed Kirkman Share a prayer with us: https://ow.ly/pJBC50Y9VQS

🖤 This workshop examines how racism functions as a system of power rather than individual bias, and how Black women, including Black trans and queer women, experience its impacts in work, leadership, relationships, and movement. 👉🏾 Register to join us: https://ow.ly/bmtO50Y9Cgc

🙌🏾 Join us to hear from UCC clergy at the epicenter of the organizing in Minnesota and beyond, as they share their experiences and offer ideas for community and church preparedness across the country! 👉🏾 Register: https://ow.ly/QXMm50Y9tRa

🙏🏾 Dear God, We pray that You guide us to take care of your creation. We pray that You help us to love You with all of our heart. And we pray that You help us to love our neighbors as ourselves. -Jakob West 👉🏾 Share your prayers: https://ow.ly/OefW50Y8Tlk

Who Are We? Rev. Shari Prestemon, Associate General Minister, UCC & Co-Executive of Global Ministries, shares her reflection about who we are as a country, as people of faith, as a church in her latest "Voices of the Journey" Blog. 👉🏾 Read the full blog here: https://ow.ly/c3Ix50Y94ms

📣 TOMORROW! 📚 In this next installment of Reading Into the New Year, we'll be in conversation with author Laurene Beth Bowers (Dismantling White Christian Supremacy, 2026, The Pilgrim Press) confronting traditional theology which serves to justify white Christian supremacy. 👇🏾 Register

❤️💚💛🖤 This February, UCC Racial Justice Ministries are offering an invitation to commit to a focused study of Black history both this month and throughout the year, with Black History 365 resources. 👇🏾 Resources

🙏🏾 God, We ask for clarity in understanding the situations around us, courage to respond in compassion & hospitality, deep abiding love for you, ourselves, our neighbors & our enemies. In your name we pray, Amen. -Amanda Udis-Kessler 👉🏾 Share a prayer: https://ow.ly/QjLh50Y8AK6

🙌🏾 "The faith community is called to do justice for all. Providing care & attention for the rights of all &the flourishing of all creation means standing in solidarity with new partners to ensure rights are retained." -Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia Thompson, GMP 👉🏾 Full blog: https://ow.ly/5wQt50Y8wT1

📣TOMORROW! There is still time to register! 🦉 Join us as we welcome Miranda Estes, State Policy and Action Manager for SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change to give us information and advocacy tools to support the Sex Ed Week of Action! 👇🏾 Register

📚 Shalida Askanazi, blogger & poet, uses humor & her experiences as a disabled, Black & Latina woman living in this time, dealing with both racism & ableism, to frame her soon-to-be released memoir (The Pilgrim Press), "That Girl's in a Wheelchair." 👇🏾 Full news story & links to book & event:

🙏🏾 Jesus, Fill this world with Your peace and love. Teach us to understand one another, to forgive, to be humble, and to support each other with kindness. In Your holy name we pray, Amen. -Roselynne Savini Selix 👉🏾 Share your prayers: https://ow.ly/lzhc50Y83HT

🌎 Faith communities are actively responding to the U.S. invasion of Venezuela as the U.S. seeks to control Venezuela's oil. In working to expand and strengthen these efforts, what do faith communities need to know about the situation? 👇🏾 Register: https://ow.ly/Fkrc50Y7KX8

🙏🏾 Divine Source, We ask for your forgiveness for the ways we've hurt your creation. We call upon your healing love to break forth & bloom so that we may begin to live in community again. -Katie Johnson Gant 👉🏾 Share your prayer: https://ow.ly/Tuw850Y7bt4

📚 In this next installment of Reading Into the New Year, we'll be in conversation with author Laurene Beth Bowers (Dismantling White Christian Supremacy, 2026, The Pilgrim Press) confronting traditional theology which serves to justify white Christian supremacy. 👇🏾 Register

🙏🏾 God, Too often we harbor anger, resentment, and pride. Teach us the way of humility, the way of listening, the way of forgiveness. We ask this in the name of the one who is our peace—Jesus Christ. Amen. -Pastor Jay Scott 👉🏾 Share your prayer: https://ow.ly/ZP0h50Y7bp1

🙏🏾 Holy One: We pray for our faith communities. You have placed us in real places with real needs. Help us to be mindful of the needs around us & respond to those needs with love, justice, compassion & real actions. -Kent Siladi 👉🏾 Share your prayers: https://ow.ly/cU1E50Y6Kxx

🦉 Join us as we welcome Miranda Estes, State Policy and Action Manager for SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change to give us information and advocacy tools to support the Sex Ed Week of Action! 👉🏾 Register: https://ow.ly/VEbQ50Y6BfS

🙏🏾 Jesus, We really need You right now. Help us to open our ears to Your words, our eyes to Your works & our hearts to Your will. Through You we are made whole & we are longing for wellness. Love You. -Karl Heilman 👉🏾 Add your prayer: https://ow.ly/ycwy50Y5cPB

As Congress considers a bill that would give billions to ICE, the UCC is clear: it is morally unacceptable to increase funding for an agency that perpetuates such violence and suffering. ▷ Contact your senators today: ow.ly/O46y50Y4xP5

This morning in Washington D.C., the pews were filled as faith leaders, including Rev. Shari Prestemon, gathered together to say NO funding for ICE! ▷ Watch the recording: ow.ly/lEcy50Y5G5C ▷ Send a message to your senators here: ow.ly/WoLJ50Y5G5B

Today Rev. Michael Neuroth (Director of the UCC Office of Public Policy & Advocacy) was arrested alongside dozens of faith leaders demanding the Senate stop additional funding for ICE. Thank you, Rev. Neuroth, and all the clergy who chose to #PrayWithYourFeet today!

Join Rev. Kearstin Bailey or your local movement group tomorrow for the #ICEOUT stand out! #PrayWithYourFeet

👏🏾 Meet six UCC clergy who traveled to Minneapolis to put faith in action! “The people of Minneapolis taught me what it looks like to love one another under federal occupation, and what it means to keep neighbors safe.” -Rev. Robin Bartlett 📰 UCC News article: https://ow.ly/hrF850Y5yzZ

🙏🏾 Holy Parent, Grieve with us at the lives taken violently. Be tender with us as we grieve & struggle in loving our violent neighbors as we love ourselves & the non-violent. Please bring your peace. Amen -Pastor Jenny Jahn 👉🏾 Share your prayer: https://ow.ly/3nXX50Y5cNj

📚 Join us TOMORROW with Rev. R.R. Tavárez, author of Drag Queen Preacher! Through the elegance of poetry and prose we are invited into a beautiful reckoning where we find our story, refuse to be invisible, and dare to become more human. 👉🏾 Register to join us: https://ow.ly/c1uy50Y55N2

Faith leaders call for action after violence in Minneapolis More than 8,000 clergy and faith organizers gathered online, urging senators to oppose renewed DHS funding and to “pray with their feet.” @isaiahmn.org @bendthearc.bsky.social @unitedchurch.bsky.social

"We want peace. Where people can live without fear & anxiety in their homes & communities. Peace that is provided & upheld by elected officials. That is absent of war & violence. Peace from oppression & tyranny." -Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia Thompson GMP/CEO, UCC 👉🏾 Full blog: https://ow.ly/l3gv50Y51aa