Faith In Texas

Freedom Friday Bailout
2022-02-11 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Lew Sterrett, 111 W Commerce St, Dallas, TX, 75208

Voter Engagement Training - Virtual Session
2022-02-17 19:00 - 20:30
A VIRTUAL INFO SESSION
FEBRUARY 17. 2022
7:00
– 8:30 P.M.
Texas has changed its election laws!
Join the Horizon UU Faith in Texas Justice Team
for MUST KNOW INFO if you plan to register or
engage voters during the election season.
Zoom info at:
bit.ly/HUUVOTERENGAGEMENT2022

Freedom Friday Bailout
2022-02-18 11:00 - 15:00 | Lew Sterrett, 111 W Commerce St, Dallas, TX, 75208
Join this Freedom Friday at the Dallas County Jail to support bailing out captives who will return to their families, jobs, and community. Faith in Texas aims to draw attention to the inequities within the money bail system and engage community members – especially those directly impacted – in the process to address those injustices
Please come out with us and other community leaders from different backgrounds and faiths to stand up for families impacted by the legal justice system.

President's Day
2022-02-21
Faith in Texas Office closed in observance of President’s Day.

John Lewis' Birthday Voting Rights Campaign Launch
2022-02-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (see registration link)
On Monday, February 21st from 1:00 PM – 2:00pm ET you’re invited to join Black clergy from across the country as we celebrate the Late John Lewis’ Birthday with the launch of the Rise and Vote, Voting Rights Campaign! We are prepared to have over 200 clergy on the call to

Participate in 15 mins of prayer for our people to remain encouraged and courageous
Hear research by New Georgia Project on Black voters
Collectively act with other Black Clergy from across the country to end voter suppression in our states and expand voting rights nationally.

REGISTER HERE to join as my special guest as we organize our collective power to both protect and advance voting rights in our states now and for generations to come.

The civil rights movement was about our faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith so we had to do something.”
– The Late Honorable Representative John R. Lewis

2022 Faith Forum - Registration / Networking Dinner
2022-02-28 12:00 - 20:00 | Washington, DC
The Faith Forum will be a four-day national gathering of clergy, faith leaders, federation directors, organizers, and Faith in Action partners. Faith in Action (FIA), the nation’s largest faith-based grassroots organizing network, is hosting its Second Annual National Faith Forum, Feb. 28-March 3, 2022 in Washington D.C. The 4 day national gathering of clergy, faith leaders, FIA federation directors, organizers, and partners was created to train leaders to move our local, state and federal work forward as a unified response to systems that conspire against black and brown people.
Faith in Action in the spring launched a listening campaign to hear leaders’ experiences over the last four years, to share hopes and dreams for the future, and to create a collective vision and priorities for Faith in Action within a shifting political landscape. The campaign’s goal is to listen to 10,000 people and train at least 500 “super leaders” in 20 states and the District of Columbia. Faith in Action is using an anti-racist research paradigm method called Participatory Action Research to determine the key themes and findings and will compile what is learned into a report. The report and findings will be used in advocacy, briefings and in the Faith Forum.
During the Forum we envision activities such as:

Training and development opportunities for participants.
An action in Washington D.C.
Advocacy visits with members of Congress.
Panel discussions with members of congress and administration.
Unveiling of FIA’s Platform based on listening campaign.

Defund Fear - UUA Common Read Discussion
2022-02-28 19:00 - 20:30 | FaceBook Event
Horizon is hosting reading group discussion for the book “Defund Fear” by Zach Norris. The FaceBook event is below and more information can be found here, https://www.horizonuu.org/action-news.

FaceBook Event:
https://www.horizonuu.org/events-editor/2022/2/28/defund-fear-discussion
https://www.facebook.com/events/638130010757755?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22page%22%7D]%7D

2022 Faith Forum - Training / State of the Union
2022-03-01 09:00 - 21:30 | Washington, DC

2022 Faith Forum – Advocacy Visits on the Hill
2022-03-02 08:00 - 16:30 | Washington, DC

2022 Faith Forum – Advocacy Day Debriefs / Closing
2022-03-03 09:00 - 11:00 | Washington, DC

Freedom Friday Bailout
2022-03-04 11:00 - 15:00, 2022-03-11 11:00 - 15:00 | Lew Sterrett, 111 W Commerce St, Dallas, TX, 75208
Join this Freedom Friday at the Dallas County Jail to support bailing out captives who will return to their families, jobs, and community. Faith in Texas aims to draw attention to the inequities within the money bail system and engage community members – especially those directly impacted.
We welcome you to come out and support community leaders from different backgrounds and faiths to stand up for families impacted by the legal justice system.

Faith in Action Women’s Celebration and Training
2022-03-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom (see registration link)
Throughout our individual and collective faith and organizing journeys, the centering of women has been maligned, purposefully ignored and rendered invisible. This organizing moment of celebrating women will re-teach and teach for the first time how to carry the real lived experiences of women in our organizing work; demonstrate how faith, power, and women together form a vehicle to create wins in organizing and justice; and declare the path of power, faith and liberation is through our reclaiming of us— our stories, our bodies, our labor and our brilliance as women. Please join us for this ONLY Women’s (Black, Brown, Trans, Disabled, Muslim, Immigrant, Formerly Incarcerated, ALL!) event!
We will hear prayers and calls to action from powerful women across our network:
Prophetic Proclamation Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp, Temple Shalom, Cincinnati, OH
Prophetic Faith Rev. Nancy Palmer Jones, First Unitarian Church of San Jose, CA
Prophetic Call to Action Rev. Nicole Barnes, Faith in Action Fund
Womanism and Power Rev. Kamilah Hall Sharp, The Gathering, Dallas, TX
Islam and Power Soraya Deen, Muslim Women Speak, Los Angeles, CA
*A Special Guest: Ashley Shelton, POWER Coalition Executive Director, will discuss organizing Women in the Louisiana delta around the maternal and infant mortality rate

Nonpartisan City & School Elections
2022-05-07

Runoffs of Republican & Democratic Primaries for November Election
2022-05-24

Memorial Day
2022-05-30
Faith in Texas Office closed in observance of Memorial Day.

Juneteenth Day
2022-06-20
Faith in Texas Office closed in observance of Juneteenth Day.

Faith in Texas Mid-Year Sabbatical
2022-06-27 - 2022-07-01
Faith in Texas Office closed for a sabbatical period.

Independence Day
2022-07-04
Faith in Texas Office closed in observance of Independence Day.

Labor Day
2022-09-05
Faith in Texas Office closed in observance of Labor Day.

Indigenous People's Day
2022-10-10
Faith in Texas Office closed in observance of Indigenous People’s Day.

Thanksgiving Day
2022-11-24
Faith in Texas Office closed in observance of Thanksgiving Day.

Day After Thanksgiving
2022-11-25
Faith in Texas Office closed in observance of Day After Thanksgiving.

Winter Break
2022-12-26 - 2022-12-30
Faith in Texas Office closed for Winter Break.

Faith-Full Strategies for Democracy and Social Change Workshops - Part 1
2024-01-14 12:00 - 13:30
RSVP via Eventbrite
OUTCOME AND INTENT
Through this workshop series participants will be able to identify and implement the basic components of effective social change strategy.
Pt 1. A Strategic Roadmap for Social Change
Pt 2. Power: What is it? Who has it?
Pt 3. On your mark. Get set. Go! A toolkit for social change.

Dates:
Pt 1 – January 14th
Pt 2 – February 17th
Pt 3 – March 2nd

Muslim Power Building Round Table
2024-01-19 18:00 - 19:30, 2024-02-16 18:00 - 19:30
RSVP via Eventbrite
OUTCOME AND INTENT
The Muslim Power Building Round Table Focuses on identifying and implementing the basic components of effective social change strategy within the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Dates:
January 19th
February 16th
March 15th
April 19th
May 17th
June 14th

Faith Leaders Round Table for Democracy and Social Change
2024-01-25 12:00 - 13:15
RSVP via Eventbrite
OUTCOME AND INTENT
To create a safe space for faith leaders to strategize and conspire about creating safe communities for Texas residents.
Clergy Meetings
These Faith Leader meetings will convene on the 4th Thursday of each month from 11am-1pm unless otherwise communicated. Alternative dates can be created for pastors that are bi-vocational
Dates

Jan 25, 2023
Feb 23, 2023
Mar 22, 2023
Apr 26, 2023

Bail Fund/Decarceration Round Table
2024-01-27 11:00 - 12:30
RSVP via Eventbrite
OUTCOME AND INTENT
Empower our community with a strengthened and informed network of community leaders to advance the bail fund’s impact.
Forge a roadmap for 2024 that amplifies our bail fund’s effectiveness, bolsters community engagement, and accelerates progress in legal advocacy.
These meetings will be held on the 4th Sunday of every month and will pivot between virtual and in-person.
Dates

Jan 27,2024
Feb 24,2024
Mar 24,2024
Apr 27,2024

Faith-Full Strategies for Democracy and Social Change Workshops - Part 2
2024-02-17 12:00 - 13:30
