Domestic Poverty / Social Justice

RESOURCES:

Tools for Diaconal Ministry: Domestic Poverty & Social Justice

Holy Nagging: Advocating for Domestic Violence Survivors
By Deaconess Rachel Patman, United Methodist Women's magazine, Response
October 2015. Download.

Gun Violence: Conversing with your congregation
Published by Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence, 2014. Download.

Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) Disaster Resource Library
Includes disaster preparedness, curriculum for youth and adults, planning and best practices. Here.

ERD Ready to Serve database
Add your name to the database of volunteers, ready to respond to a disaster.

Refugee Resources
Refugee Ministry 101
Massachusetts Workshop, Fall 2015. Workshop Handouts. Slideshow.

Share the Journey: Refugee Resource Toolkit
Episcopal Diocese of Texas. 2015. Download.

Not Just Numbers: Educational Toolkit on Migration and Asylum in Europe.
Published by IOM and UNHCR. 2015. Download.

AED Domestic Poverty Toolkit
Developed for use during Lent, 2011

Materials are organized in 3 categories:
1. Defining & Measuring Poverty

Measuring Poverty in the US - Fact Sheet
Concepts of Income Distribution, Wealth & Poverty

2. Teaching Congregations about Poverty

Starting a Community Garden
5-week Congregational Study: Where there is despair, hope.
Stations of the Cross & Suffering today - a chart
Just Neighbors - Family Promise's educational program
Called to Serve: The Church responds to domestic poverty, April 2010. A sermon by The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori
Systems & Economic Justice
Teaching Poverty - Links to online resources
Poverty Sunday Toolkit - produced by Sojourners, 2008

3. Telling the Story of Poverty

Community Garden Leadership Handbook

Tools for Diaconal Ministry