MORE Justice is a growing network of faith-based congregations that are culturally, economically, racially, geographically, and religiously diverse – coming together to fulfill our scriptural mandate to “do justice” and make the Central Midlands area a more just place to live for all people.
Member congregations like Our Lady of the Hills work together to empower marginalized people and act powerfully to address serious community-wide problems through direct action.
We seek to transform the systems that cause suffering by holding our local officials accountable for resolving these inequities and injustices. In past years, we have worked on issues such as Gun Violence prevention, Addressing Mental Health, Food Insecurity, and Affordable Housing for Midlands Communities.
What is Justice? How does it differ from Faithfulness or Mercy?
Faithfulness brings us closer to God. Church communities express faithfulness in many ways – worship services, scripture classes, prayer groups, etc.
Mercy helps individuals in need directly. Most Churches provide food and clothing collections, soup kitchens, rent assistance, or hosting refugees. These are examples of using Mercy to help individual people.
Justice, on the other hand, holds our leaders accountable for the fair treatment of all people through their policies and practices. A Justice network allows us to achieve community changes that individually we cannot. We need power to do justice, and our power lies in large numbers of organized people. It is people who put our elected officials into office, and it is that same people power that can hold them accountable to make real change in the Midlands. This is why we need Our Lady of the Hills parishioners to actively participate and provide people power.
