Act Now
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill’, and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. James 2:14-17
1) Organize a Jubilee Action Party2) Peace in Sudan3)
Education
4)
ONE Lutheran Campaign
Organize a Jubilee action party and build a movement for the passage of the Jubilee Act!
With the global economic crisis, 100 million more people will be pushed into extreme poverty in 2009, and impoverished countries are slipping further and further away from reaching the Millennium Development Goals. That is why we are asking you to host a Jubilee Action Party to get Lutherans mobilized for economic justice and join the campaign to pass the Jubilee Act.
The Jubilee Act calls for debt cancellation without harmful economic policy conditions, while ensuring transparency and accountability. It also urges responsible lending in the future to avoid a new debt crisis.
We encourage you to host your action meeting around mid-January to give you and fellow activists time to plan and organize an action for the "Change Not Chains" Week of Action to be held February 15-21.
Here are some resources to assist you in that planning:Signs of Change Letter for Congregations 
Jubilee Action Parties Guide 
ELCA Chains Not Change Flier ELCA Change Not Chains Poster
The "Change, Not Chains" postcards are still available as well.
ORDER YOUR CHANGE, NOT CHAINS POSTCARDS. Send a quick email to carly(at)jubileeusa.org or call 202-546-4470 to request any quantity of Jubilee's Change, Not Chains postcards to send to your Senators and Representatives, urging them to pass the Jubilee Act in this Congress. Back to top
Urgent Action Needed for Peace in Sudan!
The U.S. Government has asserted that the Sudanese Government is committing genocide against the people in Darfur. Estimates of innocent civilians killed range from 200,000 to more than 450,000. With more than half of Darfur’s seven million people either internally or externally displaced and exclusively dependent on external aid for shelter, food and water, the conflict in Darfur represents the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today. Read the
full story.
Five important things you can do
right now to help:
1) THANK President Obama for Releasing the Sudan Policy Review on 10/19/09, but tell him more is needed. Click
here.
2) LEARN all you can about the situation in Sudan. For additional information click
here.
3) SUPPORT Lutheran relief and disaster response in south Sudan and Darfur; send your donation to
ELCA International Disaster Response and designate your gift for “Sudan Crisis.” Your gift will be used in full—100 percent—for this ongoing disaster response. Gifts may be sent through ELCA congregations, by phone at 1-800-638-3522,
online, or mailed to ELCA International Disaster Response, P.O. Box 71764, Chicago, IL 60694-1764.
4) PLAN a call-in campaign to your elected officials. Find out about
pending legislations here.
5) SEE what's happening and what you can do now at the
Save Darfur Coalition.
Sign
The Big Read book now and show your support for high quality free education for every child. Click
here to go the ONE.org sign up page!
He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward him for what he has done. Proverbs 19:17
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