MICAH

Thanks to Joan Deming, Bob Goonin, Ashraf Ashkar, and Marie Gery for being our guest presenters during November Adult Faith Formation. Our deepest thanks for sharing heartfelt personal stories of encounters with challenging realities facing marginalized peoples under Apartheid Israel and on the southern border of the USA. 

MICAH will offer holiday gift items for sale this advent season. Look for opportunities to purchase handmade items from Palestine/ Israel in the months ahead. In case you might be interested in a 2026 Colors from Palestine calendar: please visit: https://resistanceart.com/gallery

MICAH is once again hosting nativity displays in the church narthex. Please contact us if you have a nativity you are willing to lend to the displays during the holiday season. https://photos.app.goo.gl/nqswMzBVgFz1ZTBZ9 (and attached to this email) micah@northfieldumc.org

United Methodists in UMKR respond to Israeli campaign targeting U.S. Christians with anti-Palestinian messages 

November 3, 2025 – United Methodists for Kairos Response (UMKR), the United Methodist grassroots movement for Palestinian rights and liberation, learned last month of an Israeli propaganda campaign that will target Christians in certain U.S. states. Using technology known as geofencing, they plan to identify members of certain congregations and the student and faculty of Christian colleges, to regularly expose them to propaganda filled with anti-Palestinian racist tropes and distortions of scripture. Read the full article here. 

Learn more about Kairos Response on their website https://www.kairosresponse.org/ 

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See Newsletter for Photo gallery of attached images: MICAH members join the community in public display of advocacy for Palestinians - October 2025