Urban Advocacy Update – January 2024

Give Us Peace…Empower Us as Peacemakers Peace means working for real solutions to bring needed change, with justice. During Advent, Pastor Barbara Farrow of Grace Community Church preached on what it means to be a peacemaker in the world today. This applies to every...

Urban Advocacy Update

Upcoming Big Effort on Behalf of New Migrants in Buffalo We have been so grateful to Wesleyan churches in our district that have given generously to help welcome 540 new migrants who arrived in Buffalo via NYC. We wanted to share some important news about a soon...

Urban Advocacy Update – Rapid Response Needed

Jericho Road Community Health Center is asking for a rapid response to help welcome families seeking asylum in Buffalo People fleeing imminent danger and persecution are seeking safety in the US. They are here legally under US and international law. Men, women, and...
Urban Advocacy Update – January 2023

Urban Advocacy Update – January 2023

Thank you for your empathy expressed for the people of Buffalo in recent days. On December 23rd and 24th a “bomb cyclone” blizzard paralyzed the city and left us unable to drive from home until December 28th, when our street was cleared by a City of Buffalo front-end...
Urban Advocacy Update – June 2022

Urban Advocacy Update – June 2022

Joyful Graduation On May 14 Houghton College commencement speaker Gabriel Salguero (pictured with Dean Julian Cook) had the audience of the Houghton College Class of 2022 Graduation singing with joy, laughing with abandon, and imagining with wonder what the future...