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Justice for Immigrants

Florida faith leaders held a press teleconference immigration issues on Friday, March 9, 2011 and then a Prayer Service for Immigration Justice in Tallahassee, hosted by First Presbyterian Church, on March 17, 2011. Prompted by concern over the attention Arizona copycat laws are receiving in the current legislative session, the Read more

Making It Past 17

Two 17 years olds, one a victim, one a perpetrator, yet each faces a similar outcome: the promise of life cut short. They are icons of a national crisis – an epidemic – for young Black males. Choose the stats you want: schools, jobs, prisons. In everyone of them young Read more

Resources for CIR

{loadposition immigration}   Web Links   http://floridaimmigrant.org http://americasvoiceonline.org http://www.piconetwork.org/immigration http://www.interfaithimmigration.org http://lirs.org/cir http://www.justiceforimmigrants.org http://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/usimmigration.php  

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Responding To the Church Mother Emanuel Sandy Hook Statement Trayvon Martin Statement Honoring Farmworkers Welcoming the Immigrant Cherishing the Creation An Economy for All Respect for All Religions IN MEMORIAM UNITY   God gives us unity in Christ. As the baptized receive the gift of unity, the Spirit works reconciling power in Read more

Mission

  Gathered by the life-giving Spirit and shaped by the cross of Christ, the church proclaims hope through Jesus and pursues God’s justice for all. The Council embrace the concept of missio Dei – the mission of God. We have come to see that mission is not merely an activity Read more

Witness

  The Council’s network of churches includes nearly a million Floridians in some 2300 congregations lifting up the Gospel across Florida. The Council addresses issues that have broad support among the member church leaders.

Unity

UNITY   God gives us unity in Christ.  As the baptized receive the gift of unity, the Spirit works reconciling power  in the Church for healing the world.