Events
Join World Renew as we explore the themes of mercy and justice and provide practical tools to help you and your faith community partner well locally and globally.
Upcoming Opportunities
Beyond the Headlines: Immigration and Refugee Justice
Thursday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. EST
Join World Renew, Thrive, and the Centre for Public Dialogue for Beyond the Headlines, a bi‑national justice education webinar series. This session explores immigration and refugee justice by examining common myths, root causes of forced migration, and how dominant narratives shape Christian responses in the U.S. and Canada. Grounded in biblical hospitality, participants will gain tools for empathy, faithful engagement, and practical advocacy in their communities.
Beyond the Headlines: Food Justice
Tuesday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m. EST
Join World Renew, Thrive, and the Centre for Public Dialogue for Beyond the Headlines, a bi‑national justice education webinar series. This session focuses on food justice by exploring common narratives about hunger, the systemic roots of food insecurity, and the role of policy at global, national, and local levels. Grounded in the biblical significance of food, participants will reflect on justice‑oriented, community‑driven responses that address root causes and foster lasting change.
Beyond the Headlines: Climate Justice
Tuesday, September 15 at 7:30 p.m. EST
Join World Renew, Thrive, and the Centre for Public Dialogue for Beyond the Headlines, a bi‑national justice education webinar series. This session explores climate change as a justice issue, highlighting its impacts on hunger, displacement, and inequity, and examining pathways toward climate adaptation, mitigation, and a just transition to clean energy. Grounded in biblical creation care, participants will be invited to challenge common myths and imagine faithful responses that protect vulnerable communities and our shared future.
Beyond the Headlines: Gender Justice
Tuesday, November 17 at 7:30 p.m. EST
Join World Renew, Thrive, and the Centre for Public Dialogue for Beyond the Headlines, a bi‑national justice education webinar series. This session explores gender justice by examining how cultural narratives, power structures, and theological assumptions sustain inequity. Through a biblical and justice‑oriented lens, participants will consider how gender justice intersects with economic inequality, migration, food security, and climate change, and reflect on practical steps for advocacy, allyship, and transformation within faith communities.
Ongoing Opportunities
Faith-Rooted ABCD CoP
Bi-monthly, fourth Tuesday, 2pm EST
This Community of Practice (CoP) brings together faith-rooted leaders in mercy, justice, and community development to learn, connect, and share stories, tools, and challenges. Guided by Asset-Based Community Development principles, we explore faith as an asset—building on community strengths to turn shared challenges into opportunities.
Communities Flourishing
Is your congregation interested in helping your community become a place where everyone can thrive, especially those who are marginalized? Coaching is available to help your church love, listen to, and engage neighbors and local organizations while cultivating spaces of flourishing. Sessions include learning, stories, reflection, discussion, and practical action steps.
Interested? Please fill out the contact form at the bottom of this page.
Serving with Dignity Cohort
Serving with Dignity is an asset-based approach to service that moves beyond immediate needs toward creating lasting change. This training equips participants with practical tools for serving across differences, asset-based ministry, community development, and building healthy relationships.
Note: This is designed as a next step after the Thriving Essentials course.
Past Opportunities
Cultivating Shalom
We explore food and climate justice through the voices of 13 leaders around the globe. The series will help you understand our relationship with creation, the intersection of that relationship with our faith, and a Christian response to food and climate justice, motivating people of faith and faith communities to take action.
Request recordings of this webinar series using the contact form at the bottom of this page.
Faith in Action
Use your voice! Write or call your Representatives and urge them to develop legislation that ensures national nutrition benefits are protected, climate policies are enhanced, and international nutrition assistance is supported! Write your letter here: https://p2a.co/hm1bPy6.
Connect with us to ask questions or request recordings of this webinar series using the contact form at the bottom of this page.
Food, Faith, & Justice
World Renew supports congregations and groups in learning, planning, and taking action to address food justice in their communities. Use the contact form below to:
- ACCESS our 2022 Food Insecurity, Access, and Disparity and 2024 Food and Faith webinar series recordings
- SHARE how your congregation is responding to food insecurity and justice in your neighborhood.
Have Questions? Requesting a webinar recording?
Fill out the form below and we’d be happy to connect with you!
