Social Justice Task Forces

The Green Sanctuary Task Force on Global Climate Change helps promote mindful, Earth-centered living, working to educate and motivate individuals and institutions to take positive steps toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The Habitat Task Force educates the congregation about local housing needs, including the purpose and accomplishments of Habitat for Humanity and other housing-related groups.

The Homelessness Task Force provides services to people experiencing homelessness in Bloomington and Monroe County, and educates the congregation and community of the struggles associated with homelessness and the way we can help.

The Hope for Prisoners Task Force advocates for and becomes actively involved with persons who are currently or recently incarcerated and their families, and seeks to be a voice for humane treatment and positive changes in the criminal justice system.

The Hunger Task Force provides food to lessen food insecurity for low income and unhoused people in Bloomington.

The International Outreach Task Force (IOTF) provides direct financial, material, and humanitarian support to Spurgeons Academy, a school for AIDS orphans in Kibera, a sprawling slum in Nairobi.

The Just Peace (Peace and Economic Justice) Task Force works for diplomatic, not military, solutions to conflicts. We advocate nuclear arms control and disarmament and reduced military spending.

The Racial Justice Task Force works to dismantle racism in ourselves and our institutions through education and action and supports and engages in activities led by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) groups.

The Rainbow Rights Task Force seeks to revive, document, and advance the knowledge, concerns, and rights of LGBTQ+ individuals, communities, and causes, advocating for spiritual wholeness in relation to gender and sexuality.

The RISE (Refugee and Immigrant Support and Education) Task Force sponsors a family who arrived here in Bloomington from Afghanistan in December, 2021, to help them and other refugees until they can get on their feet and feel safe and welcomed.

The Reproductive Justice Task Force supports the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.