Reconciling Justice Ministries
Reconciling Justice Ministries encourages and promotes diversity, inclusion and acceptance of all peoples.
Join members of Dearborn First UMC in promoting social justice ministries at DFUMC.
We are committed to creating a welcoming culture for those who have felt ostracized by the church, by being a presence for good in the community.
We partner with neighboring churches and nonprofits such as Justice For Our Neighbors, address poverty alleviation through food distribution, and affiliate with Reconciling Ministries Network to promote full inclusion of LGBTQIA+ people in the United Methodist Church.
We acknowledge the sin of racial bigotry and confess our neglect of the plight of people of color. We are a work in progress as we mourn and learn together to take steps in a more equitable future.
To learn more about Reconciling Justice ministries at Dearborn First UMC, or to join the Reconciling Justice Team, contact Linda: Justice@dearbornfirstumc.org
TAKE PART IN JUSTICE MINISTRIES AT DEARBORN FIRST UMC:
Love Your Neighbor - Serve the World - Make a difference!
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Join members of Dearborn First UMC in supporting the Dearborn Community Food Pantry, a collaborative partnership between Good Shepherd UMC and Dearborn First UMC.
Immigration Law & Justice - Michigan (ILJMi), formerly Justice For Our Neighbors - Michigan, welcomes and supports low-income immigrants with free immigration legal services and public advocacy
Join members of Dearborn First UMC in supporting the Dearborn chapter of Blessings in a Backpack by helping to pack bags of food to be distributed in Dearborn elementary schools.
As a reconciling congregation, Dearborn First United Methodist Church celebrates that all persons are created in God’s image and worthy of receiving God’s unconditional love and grace.
A Dearborn First UMC Hospitality Ministry welcoming and supporting those served by the Cass Community Social Services Rotating Shelter Program.
Reconciling Justice Ministries encourages and promotes diversity, inclusion and acceptance of all peoples.
Stories of Justice at Dearborn First UMC
RMN board member Mary Gladstone-Highland shares insights about the evolution of Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN) to promote intersectional justice , the important role of Reconciling Congregations to support welcoming and inclusion, and what that means to her own congregation of Dearborn First UMC.
Four profiles of activists fighting for race equality in health care, commerce, environment, and historic identity, representing only a fraction of the countless Black individuals fighting for equality throughout our nation’s history.
Motor City Wesley, brings community, creativity and conspiracy to Lent, impacting lives of college students and young adults while striving to bring goodness to the community in which it serves.
These profiles of poets, composers, world leaders, abolitionists, and activists is only a symbolic fraction of the countless achievements of Black individuals throughout history.
John Wesley’s Covenant Prayer helps us renew our commitment to God. Dearborn First UMC’s Covenant helps us to live it out.
Each day our Dearborn First Youth and their adult counselors will have the opportunity to serve alongside Detroit neighbors on projects of economic, environmental and community justice. Each afternoon Motown Mission staff will help our team reflect theologically on issues like poverty, injustice, resiliency and beloved community. Each evening our team will return to their homes for COVID-safe accommodations.
Dearborn First UMC is a long-time supporter of JFON-Michigan, providing free, immigration legal services to those in need. Read how JFON continues to stand with immigrants, despite the pandemic.
How to reconcile race relations? That’s a question Dearborn First UMC will seek to answer in 2021 - one step at a time. This edition covers Step 3: Normalization.
Our church regularly asks young people to take the faith of their childhood and make it their own through Confirmation. $100 projects might be another way that we can take Confirmation to new levels.
Other Opportunities to Serve the World
6 - 7 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO PACK LUNCHES FOR BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK! Tuesday, November 12 @ 6:30 p.m., Christ Episcopal Church. Dearborn First UMC is once again committing to monthly packing sessions to help fight hunger in Dearborn.
Food Distribution takes place the third Saturday of every month. Show up at Good Shepherd UMC from 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. to serve, or to be served. Learn more on our food ministry web page.
HOLIDAY IN-GATHERING: bring food donations to 10 a.m. worship on Sunday, November 24, 2024, to support the food pantries at Henry Ford College and U-M Dearborn.
6 - 7 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO PACK LUNCHES FOR BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK! Tuesday, December 10 @ 6:30 p.m., Christ Episcopal Church. Dearborn First UMC is once again committing to monthly packing sessions to help fight hunger in Dearborn.
6 - 7 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO PACK LUNCHES FOR BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK! Tuesday, January 14 @ 6:30 p.m., Christ Episcopal Church. Dearborn First UMC is once again committing to monthly packing sessions to help fight hunger in Dearborn.