We're using Rock the Week to share anti-racism resources as our congregation continues work to de-center whiteness and reckon with our nation's history of white supremacy and colonialism. What if you're interested in racial conciliation but want to read fiction? Try the works of Octavia Butler or Ursula K. LeGuin. Filling our reading lists with a wider range of authors and thinkers helps us grow our capacity for compassion.

The Phoenix Welcome Center continues to meet the needs of asylum seekers and refugees. You can help by keeping the clothing room at the Welcome Center well-stocked! Particularly needed at this time are men’s jeans and sweatpants, men’s t-shirts (small), women’s leggings or stretch pants, shoes and flip-flops, men’s underwear, women’s socks, hoodies and jackets, towels, and backpacks. You're invited to email Pastor Ken if you have items to donate and arrange to meet in the church parking lot. Easy peasy!

It's that time of year! The Southwest Conference United Church of Christ is preparing for the 2021 Annual Meeting. Shadow Rock is in covenant with the Southwest Conference and with the national setting of the UCC. Stay tuned for links to watch worship (Friday, April 23 is our own Rev. Liana Rowe preaching) and workshops. We're grateful for connections and partnerships and for board members who are serving as our delegates this year!

Shadow Rock's 2021 Lenten Offering is directed to RIP Medical Debt. Our offering at Shadow Rock will join gifts from other Southwest Conference churches and the Conference Executive Board to provide local debt relief within our conference's geography: Arizona, New Mexico, El Paso TX, and the Navajo Nation. Make your gift securely online here or write Lent Offering/RIP Medical Debt on the memo line of your check.