Astoria Presbyterian Church

Join tonight for community, for comfort, for a welcome distraction. Come and go as you please.

Rabbi Rachel Goldenberg and Rev. Thia Reggio stand with Court Square Justice and our shared community No Matter What...

A message for the world. Thank you Leslie Carrera-Rudolph!

It's National Voter Registration Day! Do your part: -check your registration -request a ballot -make your plan to vote (early voting in NY is 10/24-11/1)... Make your voice heard! Share this video from Court Square Justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmuS7x2x9b4,

Shana Tovah to all who celebrate! We're grateful for our friends at Malkhut and send blessings to you as you enter the High Holy Days. https://www.malkhutqueens.org/p/high-holy-days-20195780.htm

In the voices and actions of the NBA and the Milwaukee Bucks, there are prophetic overtones. Like the prophets, they refuse to allow business as usual to continue while justice is flouted. God's words to Ezekiel (the prophet who used both his actions and his words to bring attention to injustice) come to mind: "O mortal, do not be afraid of them, and do not be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns surround you and you live among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words, and do not be dismayed at their looks. 7You shall speak my words to them, whether they hear or refuse to hear..." https://www.nytimes.com//nba-boycott-bucks-magic-blake-sho

Join the walk or join in prayer for this witness to Black Lives in Queens and everywhere!

This was the focus of worship this past Sunday in conversation with Matthew 13, the weeds and wheat. We commend it for study.

We will continue to gather virtually and practice sacred distancing as an expression of our love of our neighbors. We encourage you to practice compassion by maintaining distance, wearing masks, and washing your hands. https://www.nytimes.com//coronavirus-churches-outbreaks.ht

God dwell with us in this imperfect nation. Teach us to see with new eyes the hungry child you have told us to feed; the widow alone you have told us to care for;... the poor working mother, struggling to feed her family, with only a mask to protect her; the prisoner of a system that criminalizes some in favor of others; the sick in body, mind and spirit, with no access to care, whose lives you’ve placed in our charge; the ones we pass over, judge, exclude, exploit, diminish. God, break open our hearts so that we may no longer participate in inequities that cause poverty, illness, hunger, imprisonment, and even death to our own kin. Give us the strength to face the hard truths and make right the wrongs that we know you long to forgive. God, resurrect a spirit of hope and freedom in this nation that extends to all her children fullyand beyond ourselves to all our human family. Make real the promises that can only be fulfilled when all are loved, all are cared for, all are free. God make us a nation worthy of your blessings, thriving in your peace, born of justice. We pray in your many Holy names. May it be so. https://www.usnews.com//religious-leaders-to-invoke-freder

If you have young children who are wondering about COVID-19, here is a free book to download that is clear, human, and hopeful...

On June 20, right between the primaries and the conventions, we rise together. Join us at June2020.org! The Mass Poor People's Assembly & Moral March on Washing...ton is going digital! On June 20th, we will hold the largest digital and social media gathering of poor and low-wealth people, moral and religious leaders, advocates, and people of conscience in this nation’s history. A global pandemic is exposing even more the already existing crisis of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and militarism, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism. On June 20, the 140 million poor and low-wealth people across this nation will be heard! WATCH the broadcasts on the #PoorPeoplesCampaign FB page: FB.com/anewppc & June 20 website: june2020.org The event will be rebroadcast on June 20th & 21st, at 6PM ET. The increasing urgency of a broad movement led by the poor and most impacted is more apparent every day. Now is the time to organize towards collective action to enact a moral agenda that lifts all people by challenging the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, militarism, ecological devastation, and the distorted moral narrative that ties it all together. The fact that there are 140 million poor and low-income people in the richest country in the history of the world is morally indefensible, constitutionally inconsistent, and economically disastrous. ***************** The broadcast on June 20th and June 21st will be interpreted into Spanish and ASL (American Sign Language) and will be open captioned in English. ASL interpretation will be visible on-screen for the Digital Mass Assembly and March on all digital & TV network platforms. A second ASL Interpreter only-view live-stream will be available in the Deaf Poor People’s Campaign Facebook group and Facebook page showing a larger view of the ASL interpretation. Open Captioning in English will be available on all digital and TV network platforms. We are aiming to make June 20th, 2020 as accessible as possible to our entire Poor People’s Campaign family. The Campaign’s leadership nationally and in the state coordinating committees is made up of poor people, clergy and moral leaders, and advocates bringing people together across lines of division. Our Leadership includes Deaf and Disabled folks as well as leaders who communicate in a number of languages. Speakers on June 20, 2020 will speak to the issues facing poor people in particular who are Deaf and Disabled and point to our demands for disability justice in the Moral Agenda. This Campaign is built by leaders from the bottom up. We know that we always have more to learn regarding accessibility, disability justice and defeating abilism. If you have any questions or feedback about accessibility on June 20th, 2020 please email us at [email protected]. "Copyright Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival 2020"