United Church of Christ

06/01/2026

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

Today kicks off Pride Month, and we'll be at the Cleveland Pride events this weekend. Where and how are you celebrating Pride Month this year?

👇🏾 Drop your event details, photos, etc. in the comments!

🏳️‍🌈 Check out UCC's Love is Louder initiative & resources, and all of the ways we are participating in and supporting Pride Month (this month and year round!): https://ow.ly/AQBq50S5mEF

👕 Grab some affirming merch through our UCC Resources Pride Shop: https://www.uccresources.com/collections/lgbtq

06/01/2026

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ You are loved by God! Throwback to World Pride 2025! 🎉

06/01/2026

🙏🏾 Jesus, thank You for Your never-ending, unfailing, and unconditional love. All goodness comes from You, and we pray for Your continued blessings.

God, please protect, hold, and comfort our LGBTQIA+ siblings. Though Pride Month is a celebration of Your beautifully and wonderfully made children, it can also be a reminder of others’ hatred, rejection, and oppressive actions and behaviors.

Help us remember our identities through You. We are a reflection of You, a Love that is LOUDER and a Light that is BRIGHTER. Keep our hearts soft and abundantly full of love.

In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen

-Karl Heilman, Kimball, MI

👉🏾 Join in the People's Prayers for Peace & share your prayers with us! https://ow.ly/m1UV50Z66gL

05/31/2026

🏳️‍🌈 Every day brings new challenges as policymakers target our LGBTQIA+ siblings. Staying informed and vigilant is vital.

🏳️‍⚧️ Join us for "Defending Dignity: Addressing Policy Attacks on the LGBTQIA+ Community"—a briefing with the United Church of Christ Washington D.C. Office, Georgia Equality, and the Open and Affirming Coalition UCC. Learn about current threats at state and federal levels, hear stories of hope, and discover how you can take action.

🗓️ Thursday, June 4th | 3:30 PM Eastern
💬 Share your story, raise your voice, and proclaim:

👉🏾 Register now! https://ow.ly/qXPZ50Z5Esw

05/30/2026

🙏🏾 Gentle & Holy One,

We thank You for the many ways You have nurtured us, raised us, encouraged us, challenged us and accompany us still with Your guiding Holy Spirit.

You have loved us like a Mother whose love is eternal and knows when to enfold us and when to send us forth. May we have hearts like the Mother towards Your holy & broken world, bringing healing in Your Name in all we do and in all that we are! Blessed Be Your Name Holy Mother! Amen

-Rev. Elaine Gaetani
Norfolk, MA

👉🏾 Share your prayers with us: https://ow.ly/o5Ge50Z5ANf

05/29/2026

✊🏾 Juneteenth marks the official end of the enslavement of African descended people in the U.S. The original legal declaration was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln January 1, 1863, which instituted The Emancipation Proclamation.

❤️💛💚 Racial Justice Ministries of the United Church of Christ invite you to engage in prophetic remembering to confront the challenges of our time. Nurturing a movement toward justice for all is a sacred call for liberators and freedom fighters to seek wisdom from Old and New Testament Prophets who stood up against the empires of their day and to gain inspiration from modern prophets who lead the resistance to oppressive tyrannies, ideologies, and theologies. Racial Justice Ministries and wisdom teachers of the United Church of Christ National Ministries invite you to listen and learn how to thrive during national and global threats from authoritarian leaders.

👉🏾 Register to join us:

Juneteenth marks the official end of the enslavement of African descended people in the U.S. The original legal declaration was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln January 1, 1863, which instituted The Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth is also known as Freedom Day nationally, and Emancipation Day...

05/29/2026

Rev. Michael Neuroth, Director of United Church of Christ Washington D.C. Office, joins with interfaith leaders to encourage lawmakers to "fund care, not ICE" and speak out against the pending ICE Reconciliation Bill.

👉🏾 You can add your voice here: https://www.votervoice.net/JAWM/Campaigns/132920/Respond?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=united-church-of-christ

05/29/2026

The witness of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines challenges us to consider what faithful discipleship truly requires.

👉🏾 Read Rev. Shari Prestemon's latest reflection on courage, sacrifice, and the enduring hope that springs from lives dedicated to justice, peace, and the Gospel: https://ow.ly/YFwz50Z5mJR

The witness of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines challenges us to consider what faithful discipleship truly requires. Read this moving reflection on courage, sacrifice, and the enduring hope that springs from lives dedicated to justice, peace, and the Gospel. https://ow.ly/YFwz50Z5mJR

05/29/2026

🙏🏾 Redeemer,

We thank you for the radiant light of your love that you’ve shown us.

Help us to be a reflection of who you are so that we may share your light with the world, and bring hope to the least among us.

Amen.

-Jonathan R.
Modesto, CA

👉🏾 Share your prayers with us: https://ow.ly/4lnE50Z5qma