Faith in Action for New Directions

Women of Faith: Take action for new directions
September 2008

We hope you will take inspiration from your faith and turn it into action for peace and justice.

Women of Faith in Action Offerings: Presentations, Workshops, Opportunities

1. Join the Faith List and receive our monthly web column, Seeds of Change, which includes a theological reflection on current events, an action opportunity, and discussion questions for use in group settings.

2. Faith Seeking Peace facilitator trainings introduce the FSP curriculum to participants and explore concepts of facilitation integral to teaching the Faith Seeking Peace curriculum in your community of faith.

3. Budget Trainings

4. Annual Faith Seeking Peace training in Washington DC takes place in the spring, often in conjunction with Ecumenical Advocacy Days. This training offers a time for national partner organizations to learn more about our Faith in Action program and resources, and to deepen our partner relationships.

5. WiLL/WAND National Conference Faith Track will include a dinner focused on WAND’s Faith in Action program, as well as workshop offerings that explore the intersection of faith and politics.

6. Preaching and Speaking Engagements are a forum through which we share WAND’s message in faith communities, colleges, and universities across the country.

7. Get Out the Vote! We urge communities of faith to participate in non-partisan election activities, such as registering, educating, and mobilizing voters. Announce registration deadlines and voting dates in your community of faith’s bulletin, vote early, offer rides to the polls, volunteer as a poll watcher, host candidate forums, and more!

Please contact Amanda at ahvoss@wand.org to join the faith list, request a training or speaker in your community, or learn more about the WiLL/WAND national conference and get out the vote efforts.

Lobbying Congress: with a little help from your friends
WAND is known as being reliable and relentless on the issues we care about. Our lobbyists on Capitol Hill are constantly looking for new ways to rally the energies of many organizations. One method is to organize letters to Congress with many well known and respected signers. To read more: click here.

Check out the WAND Activists' Toolkit
It's true that the federal government looks intimidating from the outside. But it's also true that it all belongs to you. So you need to take the plunge and take action.
We've put together some tips to help you get started.

More Resources

3D Security: www.3dsecurity.org

The Beatitudes Society: www.beatitudessociety.org

The Black Church and Domestic Violence Institute: www.bcdvi.org

Candler School of Theology: www.candler.emory.edu

Churches’ Center for Theology and Public Policy: www.cctpp.org

Church Women United: www.churchwomen.org

Ecumenical Advocacy Days: www.advocacydays.org

Faith in the Public Life: www.faithinpubliclife.org

Faithful Security: www.faithfulsecurity.org

Friends Committee on National Legislation: www.fcnl.org

Institute for Women’s Policy Resource: www.iwpr.org