On the Second Sunday of Easter Pastor Dries will share a sermon on Acts 4:32-35 focusing on economic justice and fair treatment in the workplace, especially as it relates to wages. In worship we will hear from College of Wooster sophomore Dylan Hamilton about the Living Wage Campaign on the campus of The College. To learn more about poverty in Wayne and Holmes County you can listen to the presentation, "Poverty and Dehumanization" by Bobbi Douglas, Executive Director of Liberty Center, given at Westminster on Sunday, March 22, 2015. The Office of Public Witness of the Presbyterian Church (USA) wrote the following in an Action Alert, "Raise the Minimum Wage", dated July 23, 2013:
"The Presbyterian Church has a long history of supporting the rights of workers to earn fair wages, good benefits, and safe working conditions. Indeed, in recognizing the value and dignity of work, the 2008 Social Creed for the 21st Century, adopted by the PC(USA) and our ecumenical partners, says:
“In faith, responding to our Creator, we celebrate the full humanity of each woman, man, and child, all created in the divine image as individuals of infinite worth, by working for…
Employment for all, at a family-sustaining living wage, with equal pay for comparable work.
The rights of workers to organize, and to share in workplace decisions and productivity growth.
Protection from dangerous working conditions, with time and benefits to enable full family life.
Indeed, our biblical tradition also reminds us that the livelihood of workers is a responsibility of the community; for the prophet Malachi, echoing earlier laws and prophets, prophesies, 'Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against… those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien, and do not fear me, says theLordof hosts.' (3:5)"
The system of low-wage work in the U.S. ensures that those who are vulnerable and have little will stay that way. Low-wage work cannot support a family, nor provide workers with the necessary supports to climb out of poverty. A job should keep workers out of poverty, not in it!
As part of his salvific ministry, Jesus said, “the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor.” In the tradition of the Savior who came to bring good news to the disheartened, dispirited, and disenfranchised, we must support social justice for all God’s children."
On the Second Sunday of Easter Pastor Dries will share a sermon on Acts 4:32-35 focusing on economic justice and fair treatment in the workplace, especially as it relates to wages. In worship we will hear from College of Wooster sophomore Dylan Hamilton about the Living Wage Campaign on the campus of The College. To learn more about poverty in Wayne and Holmes County you can listen to the presentation, "Poverty and Dehumanization" by Bobbi Douglas, Executive Director of Liberty Center, given at Westminster on Sunday, March 22, 2015. The Office of Public Witness of the Presbyterian Church (USA) wrote the following in an Action Alert, "Raise the Minimum Wage", dated July 23, 2013:
