COLLECTION RECIPIENT on JANUARY 4: FRIENDS OF SABEEL OF NORTH AMERICA
Our First Sunday Collection for January will benefit Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA), “a Christian Voice for Palestine.” FOSNA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, ecumenical Christian organization that seeks justice and peace in the Holy Land through education, advocacy, and nonviolent action.
Of FOSNA’s many programs, none are more impactful than their witness delegations of US Christian leaders to Jerusalem and the West Bank. John Noble joined one such delegation in Spring 2025. With background knowledge gained from his experience, John will join our service and stay for the breakout session to represent FOSNA’s funding needs going forward for future delegations.
Funds collected will support FOSNA’s contribution to several delegations in 2026, providing orientations before delegates travel safely to Palestine and opportunities for advocacy and community-building upon their return. FOSNA’s support of these delegations before and after the trips allows their partners at Sabeel Jerusalem to focus on getting delegates to and from Palestine safely, creating transformative programming on the ground, and building relationships with diverse communities.
Most importantly, contributions will help FOSNA build a national network of peacemakers who have returned from these witness and solidarity delegations having built relationships with Muslim, Christian, and Jewish partners on the ground.
Past delegations have represented interfaith leaders and advocates from a variety of social justice movements. In 2026, FOSNA plans delegations for various denominational leaders, librarians and archivists, and young adults active in racial justice movements. Learn more about FOSNA’s contribution to these witness and solidarity delegations at https://www.fosna.org/delegations. To learn more about FOSNA generally, click here.
Checks can be made payable either to “Friends of Sabeel North America” or “DMIEC” with “First Sunday” in the memo line
Checks should be placed in the January 11th Collection Basket or mailed to DMIEC,
P.O. Box 30065, Des Moines, IA 50310.
To be included in the amount DMIEC sends to the organization First Sunday checks must be received by DMIEC by January 20th; if you elect to contribute to the First Sunday recipient after that date, please mail your check (made payable to the organization with “DMIEC” in the memo line) directly to Friends of Sabeel North America, P.O. Box 3192, Greenwood Village, CO 80155, and, if comfortable, let DMIEC’s Social Justice Committee Chair Kathy Eastman know the amount to assist in recording our community’s giving.
