Join us each week to stand in peaceful solidarity with immigrants and demand an end to the cruel and authoritarian tactics being used against our communities. Together, we’ll lift up stories, music, and prayer as we call for an end to the inhumane detention of our neighbors and for the constitutional rights and protections due to all people.

This is a peaceful, non-partisan event.

Sign Up Here.

Our power is in our response to hate and division. Join a growing number of people of faith equipped with the knowledge and tools to identify threats to our democracy and to lead and take action through the Every Voice, Every Vote Campaign. In the training, we will learn the signs of democratic backslide and how to bring others along to the movement for free and fair elections. Join us to ensure that every eligible voter has a say in the decisions that impact our lives so we can, together, create a safer and better future for ourselves and our communities.

Join us each week to stand in peaceful solidarity with immigrants and demand an end to the cruel and authoritarian tactics being used against our communities. Together, we’ll lift up stories, music, and prayer as we call for an end to the inhumane detention of our neighbors and for the constitutional rights and protections due to all people.

This is a peaceful, non-partisan event.

Sign Up Here.

Join us each week to stand in peaceful solidarity with immigrants and demand an end to the cruel and authoritarian tactics being used against our communities. Together, we’ll lift up stories, music, and prayer as we call for an end to the inhumane detention of our neighbors and for the constitutional rights and protections due to all people.

This is a peaceful, non-partisan event.

Sign Up Here.

On Saturday, August 1, 2026, thousands will gather in Chicago for The Fierce Urgency of Now: A National March into Marquette Park, a multi-faith, multicultural public witness commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Chicago Freedom Movement.

Led locally by IMAN in partnership with dozens of community-rooted organizations, and led nationally by Powered By Faith, this mobilization is a call to action grounded in moral clarity, cultural power, and collective resolve.

Join us on August 1 in Chicago as we honor the legacy of the Chicago Freedom Movement and rise together for the fierce urgency of now.

Join scholar and organizer Anwar Omeish at 6pm on Wednesday, July 29th (virtual, RSVP here) to explore primary sources from the Chicago Freedom Movement. From music to photos to flyers to meeting notes, we'll explore what these materials tell us about the movement—and the lessons they might still offer us 60 years on.

Join us each week to stand in peaceful solidarity with immigrants and demand an end to the cruel and authoritarian tactics being used against our communities. Together, we’ll lift up stories, music, and prayer as we call for an end to the inhumane detention of our neighbors and for the constitutional rights and protections due to all people.

This is a peaceful, non-partisan event.

Sign Up Here.

Join scholar and organizer Anwar Omeish at 6pm on Thursday, July 23rd in-person at the University of Chicago to explore primary sources from the Chicago Freedom Movement. From music to photos to flyers to meeting notes, we'll explore what these materials tell us about the movement—and the lessons they might still offer us 60 years on.

SAY NO to an ICE detention center in Winton, NC! Keep Rivers Correctional Institution closed!

A lawsuit filed by ACLU-NC revealed critical details about ICE's detention expansion plans, including that GEO Group, a private, for-profit prison corporation, proposed reopening the Rivers Correctional Institution in Winton, North Carolina as an ICE detention center. Local community advocates have observed increased activity at the former prison.

Currently, one person is dying weekly in ICE custody.

We say no to detention centers! The conditions and operation of ICE detention centers are inhumane, violating standards of human dignity. People are held without due process or access to legal support. People are subject to unsanitary conditions, inadequate/inedible food, violence, mistreatment, and withholding of medical care. ICE detention is marked by the lack of due process and a pattern of abuse and violence.

During this vigil we will collectively stand up for human rights, show up for community members who are being unjustly targeted, and raise awareness about the detention and deportation of immigrants that is happening quietly and insidiously outside of the public eye – right here in North Carolina. With the June override of the Governor's veto of Senate Bill 153 by the NC General Assembly, every undocumented person in NC is suddenly in much greater danger.

Please join our Freedom Vigil, organized by your fellow community members in solidarity with our friends, neighbors, and community members who are being unjustly detained, deported, and/or have lost their life. By signing up, you will help us build our collective power as we add our vigil to the ever expanding map of Freedom Vigils occurring every week across the country.

During this time when ICE is lawlessly tearing families apart and engaging in human rights abuses at detention centers, our vigil offers a peaceful, powerful way to oppose these cruel attacks on immigrants and show those who are detained, and their families, that they are not forgotten. Let’s raise our voices together, shining a light on the family separations, the detentions in horrific conditions– where some people are literally held in cages– and the deportations happening quietly out of the public eye.

We have chosen to be outside the Fairfax Courthouse adjacent to the Fairfax County Jail, and near the Sheriffs Department. We hold the monthly vigil on the 4th Wednesday of every month form 10:30 am to noon.

This will be a peaceful, family-friendly event. We have signs for volunteers to hold with the names of those who have died ICE related deaths. While you are welcome to bring a sign of your own making, please help us hold the victim signs 'first' to show our honor/respect.

Together, our voices will rise as we build momentum and increase the public pressure to stop the deportations, shut the detention centers, and end the inhumane attacks on immigrants. Thank you!!

Join us each week to stand in peaceful solidarity with immigrants and demand an end to the cruel and authoritarian tactics being used against our communities. Together, we’ll lift up stories, music, and prayer as we call for an end to the inhumane detention of our neighbors and for the constitutional rights and protections due to all people.

This is a peaceful, non-partisan event.

Sign Up Here.

Join the Faithful Witness Campaign for our monthly formation series designed to equip us for faithful witness as we offer spaces to both meditate and move together.

Meditate – A monthly virtual gathering where we pause together to meditate on God’s Word and engage spiritual practices that prepare us for faithful presence alongside our neighbors. Read more about it here.

Join us each week to stand in peaceful solidarity with immigrants and demand an end to the cruel and authoritarian tactics being used against our communities. Together, we’ll lift up stories, music, and prayer as we call for an end to the inhumane detention of our neighbors and for the constitutional rights and protections due to all people.

This is a peaceful, non-partisan event.

Sign Up Here.

The Workers Circle has been organizing Florida people of faith and conscience to hold weekly vigils outside Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious state-run detention camp that has been headlining news for its inhumane conditions. Join us for this important moral witness.

Sign Up Here.

On Sunday, June 28th at 5 pm ET, we will gather in Washington, D.C., with the Latino Christian National Network for a service of Lament and Hope that celebrates the contributions of immigrants to our country.

The Workers Circle has been organizing Florida people of faith and conscience to hold weekly vigils outside Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious state-run detention camp that has been headlining news for its inhumane conditions. Join us for this important moral witness.

Sign Up Here.

Family, we need each other right now! Join us this Friday for an interactive online conversation and song with organizers and community leaders doing the good work, facilitated this week by Lu Aya of Songs in the Key of Resistance and The Peace Poets.

Come and weave your heart, your song, your love, your wisdom with the communities waging dignity on the frontlines of the struggle for migrant justice from across the country!

We will gather and sing songs from the Free Families songbook, get updates from Florida, Texas and California and explore together how we can infuse work we already doing with potent healing cultural practices and/or activate new weekly gatherings in your local context that open the flow of mutual aid that's practical and physical but also emotional and spiritual.

Can't wait to see you! Gratitude!

Join Sojourners for a behind-the-scenes conversation on our June special issue, A Christian Response to America’s 250th Birthday. Together with editors and contributors, we’ll explore truth-telling, civic renewal, American exceptionalism, and what it means to follow Jesus in a nation still struggling to live up to its promise of “liberty and justice for all.”

Read about the event in full on Sojourners.

The Workers Circle has been organizing Florida people of faith and conscience to hold weekly vigils outside Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious state-run detention camp that has been headlining news for its inhumane conditions. Join us for this important moral witness.

Sign Up Here.

Family, we need each other right now! Join us this Friday for an interactive online conversation and song with organizers and community leaders doing the good work, facilitated this week by Lu Aya of Songs in the Key of Resistance and The Peace Poets.

Come and weave your heart, your song, your love, your wisdom with the communities waging dignity on the frontlines of the struggle for migrant justice from across the country!

We will gather and sing songs from the Free Families songbook, get updates from Florida, Texas and California and explore together how we can infuse work we already doing with potent healing cultural practices and/or activate new weekly gatherings in your local context that open the flow of mutual aid that's practical and physical but also emotional and spiritual.

Can't wait to see you! Gratitude!

The Workers Circle has been organizing Florida people of faith and conscience to hold weekly vigils outside Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious state-run detention camp that has been headlining news for its inhumane conditions. Join us for this important moral witness.

Sign Up Here.

Family, we need each other right now! Join us this Friday for an interactive online conversation and song with organizers and community leaders doing the good work, facilitated this week by Lu Aya of Songs in the Key of Resistance and The Peace Poets.

Come and weave your heart, your song, your love, your wisdom with the communities waging dignity on the frontlines of the struggle for migrant justice from across the country!

We will gather and sing songs from the Free Families songbook, get updates from Florida, Texas and California and explore together how we can infuse work we already doing with potent healing cultural practices and/or activate new weekly gatherings in your local context that open the flow of mutual aid that's practical and physical but also emotional and spiritual.

Can't wait to see you! Gratitude!

The Workers Circle has been organizing Florida people of faith and conscience to hold weekly vigils outside Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious state-run detention camp that has been headlining news for its inhumane conditions. Join us for this important moral witness.

Sign Up Here.

Family, we need each other right now! Join us this Friday for an interactive online conversation and song with organizers and community leaders doing the good work, facilitated this week by Lu Aya of Songs in the Key of Resistance and The Peace Poets.

Come and weave your heart, your song, your love, your wisdom with the communities waging dignity on the frontlines of the struggle for migrant justice from across the country!

We will gather and sing songs from the Free Families songbook, get updates from Florida, Texas and California and explore together how we can infuse work we already doing with potent healing cultural practices and/or activate new weekly gatherings in your local context that open the flow of mutual aid that's practical and physical but also emotional and spiritual.

Can't wait to see you! Gratitude!

Our Mission

The Freedom Church of the Poor is a spiritual and political home for movement leaders. We believe in the fundamental dignity and value of all life and in a world of abundance where all can thrive. We gather as a community of faith to support and care for each other. We commit to realizing the abundant world God promises by identifying, developing, and uniting leaders who will build a movement to end poverty led by the poor. In this community and through our commitment to this struggle we also seek to re-discover and share a vision and practice of religion that is rooted in truth, justice, and love.

The Workers Circle has been organizing Florida people of faith and conscience to hold weekly vigils outside Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious state-run detention camp that has been headlining news for its inhumane conditions. Join us for this important moral witness.

Sign Up Here.

Family, we need each other right now! Join us this Friday for an interactive online conversation and song with organizers and community leaders doing the good work, facilitated this week by Lu Aya of Songs in the Key of Resistance and The Peace Poets.

Come and weave your heart, your song, your love, your wisdom with the communities waging dignity on the frontlines of the struggle for migrant justice from across the country!

We will gather and sing songs from the Free Families songbook, get updates from Florida, Texas and California and explore together how we can infuse work we already doing with potent healing cultural practices and/or activate new weekly gatherings in your local context that open the flow of mutual aid that's practical and physical but also emotional and spiritual.

Can't wait to see you! Gratitude!

Our Mission

The Freedom Church of the Poor is a spiritual and political home for movement leaders. We believe in the fundamental dignity and value of all life and in a world of abundance where all can thrive. We gather as a community of faith to support and care for each other. We commit to realizing the abundant world God promises by identifying, developing, and uniting leaders who will build a movement to end poverty led by the poor. In this community and through our commitment to this struggle we also seek to re-discover and share a vision and practice of religion that is rooted in truth, justice, and love.

The Workers Circle has been organizing Florida people of faith and conscience to hold weekly vigils outside Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious state-run detention camp that has been headlining news for its inhumane conditions. Join us for this important moral witness.

Sign Up Here.