Helping hands are pushing for change

Helping hands are pushing for change

Source: Duluth News Tribune - Duluth, MN, USA
Author: Linda Hanson

Date: 17 August, 2008

On most Wednesday mornings, you’ll find the Rev. Kathy Nelson and other volunteers making breakfast and serving it to homeless people at the Churches United in Ministry Drop-in Center in Duluth.

For Nelson, pastor of Peace United Church of Christ in Duluth, this sort of direct action to help people in poverty is central to her Christian faith…

Broad coalition of Christian leaders tackle 'scandal' of poverty

Broad coalition of Christian leaders tackle 'scandal' of poverty
United Church News: 02-13-2007

“The country's broadest-ever ecumenical coalition of Christian leaders have issued a statement condemning the "scandal of widespread poverty" and calling for action by the public and private sectors to combat it.
As leaders in Christian Churches Together, we believe that a renewed commitment to overcome poverty is central to the mission of the church and essential to our unity in Christ, they said in a Feb. 9 statement.

“The Rev. John H. Thomas, the UCC's general minister and president, and the Rev. Lydia Veliko, the UCC's ecumenical officer, represented the UCC at the gathering.”

New Poverty Effort Undertaken by US Catholics and Other Christians

New Poverty Effort Undertaken by US Catholics and Other Christians
Faith Progressive Blog: 02-14-2007

“Christian Churches Together in the USA (CCT) is a new forum growing out of a deeply felt need to broaden and expand fellowship, unity, and witness among the diverse expressions of Christian faith today. CCT is inclusive of the diversity of Christian families in the United States — Evangelical, Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Pentecostals, historic Protestant, Racial and Ethnic churches.”

“The group includes the following:

AMEN
American Baptist Churches, USA
Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese
Armenian Orthodox Church in America
Bread for the World
Call to Renewal/Sojourners
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Christian Reformed Church in NA
Church of God Ministries (Anderson, IN)
Church of God of Prophecy
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
Coptic Orthodox Church
Evangelicals for Social Action
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Free Methodist Church
Friends United Meeting
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
International Council of Community Churches
International Pentecostal Holiness Church
Moravian Church*
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches
National Baptist Convention of America
National Baptist Convention, USA
Open Bible Churches
Orthodox Church in America
Reformed Church in America
Syrian Orthodox Church
The Episcopal Church
The Evangelical Covenant Church
The Korean Presbyterian Church in America
The Presbyterian Church USA — provisional until 2010
The Salvation Army
United Church of Christ
United Methodist
US Conference of Catholic Bishops
World Vision”