Our Social Justice & Advocacy Committee seeks to follow Jesus in the work of justice, peacemaking and advocating on behalf of the disempowered. Together we participate in justice initiatives and organizing events around issues such as food and housing insecurity, diversity and inclusion, and the protection and care of the environment.
Social Justice & Advocacy
Woodstock Pantry: Paper Bags Needed
Each Friday and Saturday the Woodstock Pantry uses around 360 grocery bags giving out food to families who are running short. All Saints parishioners and our neighbors usually donate enough of their used bags to get us by, but from time to time w...
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Water for Gaza
Most of us in the Pacific Northwest are able to turn on our water tap to receive clean, safe water for consumption and bathing. This is not true in many places throughout the world. The Center for Disease Control considers access to safe drinki...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column: The Web of Life
Both from an ecological perspective and from Genesis’ point of view, goodness resides in the community, the web of life, in the relations of the whole biosphere. All organisms interact constantly with their surroundings, in an endless cycle of ...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column: The Goal of Adults
The fundamental goal of the adults in any society is to protect their young and do everything they can to leave a better world than the one they inherited. The current generation of adults, and those that came before, are failing at a global scal...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column: A Sacred Act
Inspiration is not garnered from litanies of what is flawed; it resides in humanity’s willingness to restore, redress, reform, recover, reimagine, and reconsider. Healing the wounds of the Earth and its people does not require saintliness or a...
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Special Guest on Sunday, September 26
Special Guest This Sunday, September 26: Next Sunday at our 9am and 10:15 service, we will be joined by Rev. Dr. Leroy Barber, Director of Innovation for an Engaged Church serving the Greater NW area of the United Methodist Church. Leroy is als...
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St Philip the Deacon Alcena Project
Accounts of St. Philip the Deacon typically begin with its founding in 1911 by a group of African-American Episcopalians of Caribbean Anglican descent. Often unstated is the legacy of racism in Portland, in Oregon, and in the Episcopal Church its...
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