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     As a member of Racine Interfaith Coalition (RIC), an organization of eighteen diverse, multi-racial religious communities, Christ Church provides its members a variety of opportunities to get involved and make Racine a better place to live for all of its people.  RIC chooses its campaigns based on input from one-on-one conversations with people in member churches. Currently two local campaigns are underway.
bulletThe Senior Site Campaign involves getting public and corporate officials to recognize the need for a permanent comprehensive Senior Citizen Center in metro Racine. Once a site, either an existing building or a piece of property, is obtained, grant money can be used to create the facility. Get involved!

RIC Senior Site Meetings are held the 2nd Monday of each month at Christ Church at 6:30 p.m.

bulletSacred Ground was established to create a safer more vital neighborhood where residents can live and raise their families free of drugs, prostitution and crime. The short-term boundaries for this project High Street on the North, Erie on the east, State Street on the south, and Northwestern Avenue on the west, involve seven RIC congregations. Get involved!

Sacred Ground Meetings are held the 4th Thursday of each month at St. Patrick's at 7:00 p.m.

RIC has joined sister organizations in Milwaukee (MICAH), the Milwaukee suburbs (HOSEA) and Kenosha (CUSH) to form WISDOM, a regional faith-based organization seeking justice and common good in Southeastern Wisconsin. The 90 congregations, representing 14 religious denominations, have taken on three issues which affect people throughout the region. These WISDOM issues are:
 
bulletEducation ( a call to reform state funding for public schools to alleviate the crisis which exists)
 
bulletAODA (a call for more state funding for alcohol and drug treatment because statewide there are not enough treatment facilities or treatment programs for the uninsured or under-insured)
 
bulletImmigration (a call to reform the negative attitudes toward immigrants in this country and the dishonorable way they are frequently treated)

 

GET INVOLVED! GET INVOLVED! GET INVOLVED!
For more information on any of these topics, please call:
Nancy Holmlund (886-3602) or the RIC office (635-9532).