News & Upcoming Events
at UCRP
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Immigration in Rogers Park
- Know your rights
-- What to do if ICE comes to your door
- Differences between ICE [Immigration and Customs
Enforcement] and Customs and Border Protection [CBP]
Both ICE and CBP are in Rogers Park.New appointee as our District Superintendent
plus an old UCRP pastorNew statue display on the corner of Ashland and Morse shows the gravity of UCRP’s mission
The current Lifeline phone number 1-800-273-8255
July 16 new 988 dialing code to operate through the existing National Suicide Prevention LifelineUCRP Resiliency Fund: Helping those in our community
Need Food?
Care for Real Pop-Up Pantry is available on TuesdaysAlternative Call to 911 UPDATED - Now 24/7
Call 800-FACT-400 [800-322-8400] instead of 911
Volunteers needed for Rogers Park Food Pantry Pop-Up
United Church of Rogers Park is partnering with Care for Real to bring a food pantry pop-up to Rogers Park. The pantry, working with the Greater Chicago Food Depository, will provide bulk groceries for anyone who needs them in Rogers Park. We are tentatively scheduled to begin providing food on Tuesdays from noon to 2pm, but we need volunteers to help distribute the groceries and mostly need volunteers on Thursdays 8:30 am to noon.
Help feed your neighbors by sharing your time, energy and enthusiasm where it counts.
Let's find out where you fit in.........
PREPARATION DISTRIBUTION**
Thursdays 8am to 12pm Tuesdays 10am-3pm
Sort food/ stock shelves, Greeting/Registration
tables and pre-pack bags Stock tables
...................Vigorous physical activity involved.................
........................Cleaning and Maintenance...........................
.......................Work in the wonderful Outdoors.................
If you can help please email Sabrina Bermingham at the office at unitedchurchofrogerspark@gmail.com or call the church office at 773-751-2600
**Volunteers are especially needed on Thursdays. Thursdays are a much smaller group of volunteers (usually under 10 people) if you are more comfortable helping behind the scenes.
Organizing for Housing Relief
There are a few ways you can help with efforts to provide housing relief.
Phonebanking with ONE Northside for a rent/mortgage holiday and demanding CHA release the 2,000 vacant units they have. The phone banks will happen on Tuesdays from 10am to 1pm and Wednesdays from 5:30 to 6:30. You will be given training your first time. If you are interested please let Pastor Lindsey know at longlin55@gmail.com
Tenants rights training, including organizing your building. Let Pastor Lindsey know if you are interested in this work.
Write to the incarcerated
Now, more than ever, it is important to reach out to our incarcerated siblings as jails and prisons enact strict policies around visiting. A simple letter can help people feel less isolated and alone. If you would like to participate, reach out to Kate Hemingway at hemingwaykathryn@gmail.com
This week we have a special request. On May 8, the Chicago Tribune posted a story about a 22 year old man who was waiting to be transferred to home monitoring, but was unable to do so due to lack of resources. If you'd like to write to him directly, his address is below. Please use the church address as your return address (1545 W. Morse Ave, Chicago, IL 60626).
Christopher Crane
20200312133
PO Box 089002
DIV-EM-Electronic Monitoring-General
Chicago, IL 60608
