UCC Mission Priority Board - SONKA

05/06/2026

Support our matching grant partner Washington United Church of Christ and their ministry to feed bodies and souls!🫶 Be a donor, walker or runner in the Freestore Foodbank Memorial Day Hunger Walk 👟👞🥾👢

04/07/2026

Save the date! and make plans to join in this annual evening of inspiration and celebration! 🙏🏼🌈🙌🏼

02/14/2026

Music has the power to heal, inspire, and bring people together. - Bernice Johnson Reagon 🎵All are welcome to lift every voice and sing!
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1B7Rsk3t19/

Together, our voices have power. Surround yourself with community and join us in songs for justice, all ages and experience levels welcome. 💙

When: Friday, February 20th from 6:30-8pm
Where: First United Church of Christ
5808 Glenview Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45224

01/25/2026

Join in!

Tonight at 8pm ET, people of faith across the country are coming together in lament, prayer, and action.

Join us for a National Faith Call to Action as we lament the loss of Alex Pretti and all lives lost due to ICE violence, pray for justice, healing, and protection for our communities, and commit to moving forward boldly together to take action and demand accountability.

🔗 Register/Join: bit.ly/nationalfaithcalltoaction

08/06/2025

Join us for an interfaith gathering in support of Imam Ayman Soliman, a respected Muslim chaplain and beloved community member who is currently detained by ICE and facing deportation.

People of all faiths will come together in prayer, reflection, and action to demand freedom and dignity for Imam Ayman and all those unjustly targeted by the immigration system.

📅 Sunday, August 10 | 5 PM
📍 New Prospect Baptist Church
1580 Summit Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45237

07/16/2025

Grateful for your support 🫶🏼 that allows SONKA the opportunity to gather with our siblings of our faiths and denominations 🙏🏼 Check out Cincinnati Festival of Faiths photos https://equasion.org/festival-gallery/

06/21/2025

Join us tomorrow for this wonderful annual gathering and be sure to stop by our table in the exhibition hall! God is still speaking!

We can't wait to see everyone TOMORROW for the 2025 (Cincinnati Festival of Faiths Exhibition)! (LINK TO FB EVENT) Please join us from 12:30 to 4:30PM, at the Cintas Center. Admission is free and all are welcome! Learn more at https://equasion.org/about-the-festival-2/

06/18/2025

Keep cool and safe!

06/17/2025

Join us this Sunday 🙏🏼 for this annual gathering of 34 faith traditions and 13 world religions featuring exhibits, food, entertainment, workshops 🫶🏼 Admission is free!

See the people and organizations who make the festival possible - thank you for making this happen!

05/05/2025

The 8th annual Cincinnati Festival of Faiths is a wonderful inter-faith outreach and educational opportunity for you and your congregation.
Please join in the celebration Sunday, June 22, 12:30 to 4:30 pm at Xavier University’s Cintas Center to enjoy cultural foods, merchandise, youth and adult activities, cultural and ethnic music, and entertainment.
This year we will again have a UCC-SONKA table (thanks to your support!)
The theme is Compassion Through Action: Standing Together for the Greater Good. We will share our UCC efforts to engender caring; ease suffering; promote inclusion, equity, and justice; build community; create opportunity; and foster hope.
Sign up here if you would like to help staff the SONKA table and extend our extravagant welcome!

Help staff the UCC Sonka table at the 8th annual Festival of Faiths (Cincinnati) kick-off event at the Xavier University Cintas Center on Sunday, June 22 from 12:30 – 4:30 PM. The theme is "Compassion through Action: Standing Together for the Greater Good." Admission and Parking are free! Help ext...

04/29/2025

Please support matching grant partner: Washington United Church of Christ in the Fight Against Hunger! Donate today to double your impact! https://give.freestorefoodbank.org/team/649726
The Mission Priority Board will match donations up to $3000! In recent months Washington UCC is seeing an increasing need to satisfy food insecurity in our neighborhood.
Camp Cupboard and Closet served 5,624 individuals in 2023.
In 2024, we provided food for 6,467 individuals!
At Community Lunch in February of last year we served 1,045 meals. This year we served 1,259 lunches in February!

Please support us in the Hunger Walk to raise funds for our food ministries. Food from the Freestore Foodbank is not free. We budget $17,500 annually for our food ministries. Your contribution today will be matched by the Mission Priority Board matching grant program up to $3000!

Thanks for loving your neighbor through our food ministries.
The staff and volunteers of Washington UCC

https://give.freestorefoodbank.org/team/649726

Help us provide food for our neighbors