OUR MISSION
FROM AGREEMENT TO ACTION
Christian unity should produce something.
The United Churches of America exists not merely to host conversations about unity, but to create relationships capable of meaningful cooperation.
Our long-term mission is to help facilitate networks through which participating churches and ministries can collaborate in areas such as:
MUTUAL AID
Church-to-church and community-to-community assistance during emergencies, disasters, economic hardship, and personal crisis.
FOOD SECURITY
Local gardens, farms, food pantries, food-sharing networks, community kitchens, and partnerships capable of feeding people when they need help.
FAMILY & COMMUNITY
Programs and relationships that strengthen families, support parents, care for children, honor the elderly, and rebuild genuine human community.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY & CONSCIENCE
Peaceful advocacy for the freedom of individuals and religious communities to live according to conscience while respecting the equal dignity and rights of others.
PRIVACY & HUMAN DIGNITY
Thoughtful Christian engagement with emerging systems of surveillance, digital identity, artificial intelligence, financial technology, and other technologies capable of dramatically altering the relationship between individuals and institutions.
Technology can serve humanity.
Humanity must never become subservient to technology, nor the property of institutions.
INDEPENDENT COMMUNICATION
Building relationships and communication channels that allow churches and communities to remain connected during emergencies, censorship, infrastructure failures, or periods of social disruption.
LOCAL RESILIENCE
Encouraging local relationships, local enterprise, skills, agriculture, charitable infrastructure, and practical systems that make communities stronger and less vulnerable.
PEACEFUL DEFENSE OF CONSCIENCE
Standing beside people and churches facing genuine violations of religious liberty, freedom of conscience, peaceful association, or human dignity.
We believe mutual defense does not require doctrinal merger.
COME OUT OF BABYLON—AND BUILD SOMETHING BETTER
Christian resistance should not mean rage.
It should not mean violence.
It should not mean chaos.
It should not mean withdrawing from our neighbors.
The most powerful resistance to a dehumanizing system is to become increasingly difficult to dehumanize.
Build relationships.
Build communities.
Build gardens.
Build charities.
Build businesses that treat people well.
Build families.
Build schools and educational networks.
Build ministries.
Build local resilience.
Help the poor.
Care for the elderly.
Defend the innocent.
Protect conscience.
Practice hospitality.
Create alternatives.
Do not merely curse the darkness. Build what makes the darkness unnecessary.
That is how we understand the call to come out of Babylon.
Not simply: Leave something.
But: Build something better.
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ON EARTH
Christianity begins in a garden.
Scripture ends with restoration.
Between Eden and New Jerusalem lies the entire human struggle with alienation, domination, violence, empire, sin, death, reconciliation, redemption, and restoration.
We believe Christians should live as ambassadors of the world toward which the Gospel points.
A world characterized increasingly by:
Love.
Peace.
Justice.
Mercy.
Truth.
Freedom.
Reconciliation.
Human dignity.
Generosity.
Stewardship.
Community.
Abundant life.
We are not waiting passively for a better world while contributing nothing to the one we inhabit.
We intend to plant trees whose shade we may never personally sit beneath.
We intend to build institutions future generations will inherit.
We intend to leave our children more freedom, more community, more hope, and more opportunity than we received.
We intend to build.