This will be the biggest Salem Climate Action in 2020! Show our strength by standing together. Send a message to state legislators and Governor Brown to stand up to the powerful oil industry and pass real climate action. If you show up for one action on climate legislation in 2020, make it this one. Ecumenical … Continue reading Oregon Climate Emergency Day of Action
As Oregonians, we care deeply about the most vulnerable, especially Oregon's children. Yet, Oregon has the highest rate of K-12 homelessness in the country, and the second-highest rate of youth who are homeless and separated from their parents. At Youth Homelessness Advocacy Day, we will hear about legislation that will address youth homelessness. We will … Continue reading Youth Homelessness Advocacy Day
Hearing the Cries: Healing Injustice brings a holistic lens to being in relationship with our justice-involved neighbors: helping people of faith and goodwill, in the words of Bryan Stevenson, “get proximate” with those members of our society who have lived experience of the justice system. We hope to frame participants’ understanding of the “issue” of … Continue reading Hearing the Cries: Healing Injustice
With COVID-19, many people have concerns surrounding DACA. To ensure EMO's SOAR Immigration Legal Services answers all your questions and keeps you accurately informed with accredited information, we will host a Zoom Webinar this on April 24 at 11:30 a.m. Join us and get informed with one of our immigration attorneys! Con COVID-19, muchos de … Continue reading DACA During COVID-19: A Zoom Webinar by SOAR Legal
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's Portland CROP Walk will be "virtual." Walk virtually. Give online. Change the world. Learn more and donate now. The local programs the Portland CROP Hunger Walk supports are EMO's Northeast Emergency Food Program and Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon. About the CROP Hunger Walks: They are community-based … Continue reading Portland CROP Hunger (Virtual) Walk
Although public health considerations mean that this year’s Benefit Dinner & Awards Celebration will be cancelled, our work carries on! At Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, we are committed to carrying out our mission to create a more just, compassionate, sustainable and peaceful world. Proceeds from this event comprise a major portion of our annual budget. … Continue reading Cancelled: EMO’s Benefit Dinner & Awards Celebration
Celebrate and honor refugees on World Refugee Day this Saturday, June 20! An hour long "virtual" celebration will be filled with performances, refugee stories, cooking demos, and words of hope from civic leaders and refugee agencies. The video will be posted at 11 a.m. at PDX World Refugee Day Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/2487110281599794/
Join EMO and Interfaith Power & Light (OIPL) for our first webinar on creation justice in Oregon! Caring for creation is intimately linked to racial justice, and the public health and economic connections between air pollution, the current pandemic, and racial inequities are also staggering. Therefore, this webinar will showcase the work of the Portland … Continue reading Creation Justice Webinar: Portland Harbor Community Coalition
Join EMO and Interfaith Power & Light (OIPL) for our second webinar on creation justice in Oregon! This webinar will showcase the work of Verde, which serves communities by building environmental wealth through Social Enterprise, Outreach and Advocacy. Since 2005, Verde has brought new environmental investments to Portland’s neighborhoods, involved community members in the planning … Continue reading EMO/OIPL Creation Justice Webinar 2
These are extraordinary times for our world and for EMO’s HIV Services programs (HIV Day Center and Daily Bread Express). At this virtual Meet n’ Greet, you will: > Learn how we’ve continued to serve our clients > Meet our new program manager and staff > Connect with other supporters of HIV Services > Learn … Continue reading HIV Services Virtual Meet n’ Greet
