Mark your calendars for this important day together for February 20, 2025 for Interfaith Advocacy Day. More details and registration coming soon. 

We have a full slate of opportunities for you to grow your advocacy skills and learn about our policy priorities, as well as an all-liaison meeting. Learn more below: 

• December 8th 2-4pm: Seattle Cluster Meeting (more info below)
  
  
• January 5^th 4-5pm: Advocacy 101, Register Here
  
  
• January 9^th 12-1pm: *Legislative Preview, Register Here
  
  
• January 12^th 4-5pm: *Legislative Preview, Register Here
  
  
• January 15^th 12-1pm: FAN All Liaison Meeting: Organizing Your Faith Community for Advocacy, Register Here
  
  *Please note that we have two time offerings--evening and afternoon--for the Legislative Preview. The content will be the same for both.

SEATTLE FAITH ACTION NETWORK CLUSTER GATHERING 

    Sunday December 8, 2:00-4:00 pm

    Quest Church, 1401 NW Leary Way, Seattle

Join us for a gathering of faith community members and people of conscience in the Seattle area. This will be a time to:

• meet with our new Executive Director Dr. Joyce del Rosario
• strengthen relationships of solidarity for mutual support, resistance, and joy
• share FAN's policy priorities and hear yours for the 2025 legislative session, and
• collaborate on planning for justice advocacy, education and public action.

    Please REGISTER HERE

In 2019 the Washington State Legislature passed the Keep Washington Working Act to protect the rights of immigrant communities from unnecessary contact with ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and CBP (Customs and Border Protection). Attend the upcoming WAISN Know Your Rights with ICE training so that you are aware of these rights and can coach others. Register here for the next bilingual training being held on Friday, December 13 from 6-8 PM over zoom.

Register here

Participation in the course offered by Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary builds the skills and confidence of leaders and potential leaders to respond to urgent realities of climate change, and especially its racial and economic justice dimensions.  With weekly coaching and leadership development, program participants will understand themselves as leaders, expand capacity to enroll others in collective action, and understand the roles of teams in creating change.  The course is led by a truly talented team of three community organizers with extensive experience in both faith-based and secular venues. 

-The application deadline has been extended to 12/18/2024.

-To apply: application link. 

-Tuition is $300 for this one semester course.

-Learn more here

For questions about the course, please contact collabwithvia@gmail.com.

FAN would like to invite you to the Fig Tree's Eastern Washington Legislative Conference on Saturday, January 25, 8:30-3pm. We are pleased to help plan this event with the Fig Tree, Spokane NAACP, Earth Ministry/WAIPL, and Catholic Charities of Eastern Washington. This year's theme is "What does it mean to be prophetic?" Register here

Event highlights:

• Keynote Panel with Indigenous leaders on river health and salmon restoration.
• Youth Advocate Panel
• Policy briefings from FAN's Policy Engagement Director, Kristin Ang, Earth Ministry/WAIPL, and Washington State Catholic Conference.
• Issue workshops, including an Advocacy 101 workshop from FAN Eastern Washington Regional Organizer, Brianna Dilts, and AC Churchill of Earth Ministry/WAIPL

Register here

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