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Attendees of Interfaith Advocacy Day involve others in advocacy

200 attend Interfaith Advocacy Day at the Capitol in Olympia.  Photo by Mark White Photography

As one of the 200 people who attended the 2025 Faith Action Network’s Interfaith Advocacy Day in Olympia, Barbara Anderson Preston, a deacon at Keystone UCC in Seattle, has followed up on informing others in her church on the issues.

She has been sending out information to members of Keystone UCC in Seattle on bills that FAN is promoting.

Barbara has also gone to Olympia several times this session to advocate.

For information, call 206-819-4968 or email gepreston@msn.com.

Members of several UCC churches were at hearing on refugees

Members and pastors of several UCC churches were among those who went to the courthouse in Seattle on Feb. 25 for the hearing related to the administration freezing the country’s refugee resettlement programs.

Members of the Congregational Church on Mercer Island went to protest, reported Suzanne Sanderson.

Pastor Jennifer Castle said: “It was a powerful morning watching justice at work, as we witnessed firsthand the federal court ruling blocking Trump’s executive order to suspend the U.S. refugee program. Afterward we showed our support on the courthouse steps as the plaintiffs held a press conference. It gave us hope to put our faith into action!”

Dee Eisenhauer, pastor of Eagle Harbor UCC in Bainbridge Island, also attended the hearing on the federal case related to Church World Services, Lutheran Social Services and HIAS, the Jewish refugee agency. The federal judge in Seattle temporarily blocked the administration’s executive order to halt to the refugee resettlement program and freezing funding to agencies that support refugees because it nullifies the will of Congress.

She went because she has worked with CROP Walks that raise funds for Church World Service’s work.

For information, email jennifer.castle@uss-ccmi.org or dee.eisenhauer@gmail.com.

 

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