Feel free to use these to assist you in planning and promoting events for the Week of Action.
- Fighting Poverty with Faith 1 Pager Provides an overview of the project to help advertise events or reach out to new partners.
- Interfaith letter to the Presidential Candidates
- Action Alert Template -- Provides a general outline for an action alert to mobilize your community to call and write to candidates about poverty.
How To Interfaith -- Strategies for planning an interfaith community service project with different faith partners.
Prayer Resources
- Prayer Service -- A sample prayer service for the poor and vulnerable
- Hunger Reflection -- A sample prayer reflection on hunger in the United States.
Poverty Sunday Toolkit Everything you need to organize a church service to educate and inspire your congregation to act on the issue of poverty, includes sample prayers and liturgy along with ideas for organizing. - Prayer Service/Health Reflection -- A sample prayer reflection for those who are uninsured in the United States.
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Messaging and Media
- Talking Points- messaging for the week of action
- Media Event -- Guidelines for coordinating a creative media event.
- Brian McLaren: Scared to Talk Politics in Church?
Well-known author and speaker, Brian McLaren, addresses the challenges of talking politics in church. Brian draws upon his experience as a pastor, an activist, and a scholar to help provide a framework for churches as they address this delicate topic. This transcript is from a live discussion.To download the MP3 audio files, right-click the podcast title (ctrl-click for Macs) and choose "Save As."
Other Resources
- For more information on what the Presidential candidates intend to do about poverty, please visit Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity.
Election Resources
- “Vote All Your Values” from Sojourners Voter Issues Guide: A nonpartisan, faith-based guide that examines 7 core issues a Christian or person of faith should consider before voting.
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