The Justice Witness Ministry is a covenanted ministry of the United Church of Christ and Missouri Mid-South Conference. It is purposed to bring prophetic witness and work around the issues of racial, economic and social justice. The focus for JWM efforts has been five-fold during this year. As we began to get our footing as a reorganized and reactivated ministry, we felt called to focus our energi
es on two major issues until we could build networks within the Conference. These were (1) racial justice and (2) a moratorium/ the abolition of the Death Penalty in Missouri. In addition, our National UCC Economic Justice Minister brought our attention to (3) the struggles for a safe and fair workplace in the poultry industry, which directly impacts most of the members of our Marshallese congregations and their community in NW Arkansas. We also began to (4) make a progressive Christian public witness on timely justice issues within the MMSC area, as they came up and were brought to our attention. Lastly we have worked with the Communications Covenanted Ministry and office staff (5) towards the development of a JWM social media presence.
