Thank you, Saguaro, for your faithfulness in donating needed clothing over the past two years, and assembling dry milk packets for so many children who likely haven’t had milk for quite a while.

It is necessary to temporarily stop accepting clothing donations at the church while I travel and have surgery. However, the need continues, so please consider taking your donations to St. Mark’s church, 736 E. 2nd St., Mon.-Thurs. 9 am-12 pm. If you are interested in volunteering, send an email to volunteers@casaalitas.org. 

There are many ways you can help that can be adapted to your availability and interests. You will make God’s love real.

Muchas gracias.

- Cheryl Shearer

Saguaro CC and FCC Tucson are hosting three weeks of Be The Neighbor groups. Saguaro CC is providing the leadership with Pastor Kelley and FCC Tucson is providing their hospitality center for groups to stay. 

On May 8, General Minister and President Rev. Terri Hord Owens with Rev. LaMarco Cable, President of Global Ministries (Disciples of Christ and United Church of Christ), and Rev. Chis Dorsey, President of Disciples Home Missions, joined their voices with other leaders across the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) to denounce the rising violence against LGBTQIA persons in a Pastoral Letter Addressing the Unjust Rise of Anti-LGBTQIA Legislation in the United States.

Read the full statement HERE.

For resources, solidarity, and action, see this page from the Disciples LGBTQ+ Alliance.

This Mothers Day, many will celebrate the women in their lives with flowers and kind words. Let us also consider the mothers, grandmothers, aunts, siblings, and daughters across the world facing rape and other gender-based violence daily. We know young ones are also subject to such harm and tribulation.

Join Disciples and the World Council of Churches for Thursdays in Black to build awareness and resistance to permissive attitudes toward rape and violence.

Wear black on Thursdays, take a selfie, and tag it with #ccdocThursdaysinBlack

Your gifts to the 2023 Pentecost Offering, received this year on Sundays, May 21 and 28, help ensure our movement continues to embody the Disciples of Christ vision: to be and to share the Good News, witnessing, loving and serving from our doorsteps to the ends of the earth.

Half of your gift supports the local new church movement through your region’s ministry. The other half supports New Church Ministry efforts across the United States and Canada to equip, train, and empower new leaders. 

So, thank you. For participating in the new thing God is still doing — just as in the beginning.

Please give generously to the Pentecost Offering.

Hearty Soup!! Hearty Soup!! 

Help us restock the Community Food Bank by bringing cans of hearty soup! All through April- help us collect cans of hearty soup! There is a bin outside the sanctuary to collect them. 

Questions? Contact Heidi Sims