Gratitude, Hope, and the Work Still Before Us
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Dear Friends of Faith and Justice, In a year filled with so many reminders of our world‘s need for more faith and justice, we took time as a team to reflect on our work in the world. This process led to a refined vision and mission, which we are excited to share with you now! We trust you‘ll see how this renewed clarity guided our activities over the past year and is now shaping our sense of the work that lies ahead. Our Work in 2025F&J Fellowship and Network: At the heart of our community this year are 68 fellowship cohort participants from 17 states across the United States. They meet regularly to build relationships of trust and mutual support—creating space to ask difficult, honest, and deeply probing questions. It‘s a simple yet profound formula: learning in community fosters understanding and transformation across lines of difference, time and again, year after year. Beyond our cohorts, more than 200 people are part of the broader Faith and Justice Network, engaging at their own pace with access to rich, high-quality theological resources. Learning from Gen Z: This year, we also launched a new college track, welcoming students and recent alums from Claremont McKenna College, Pomona College, Scripps College, and Point Loma Nazarene University. These emerging leaders are not only engaging our curriculum but serving as program consultants, helping us imagine new pathways for the future. Vocational Discernment: Our members and alums are current students of theology at Duke, Princeton, and Vanderbilt. They are also artists, scientists, social workers, and tech professionals who are putting their learnings from Faith and Justice to work across diverse fields and industries. Many Leading Voices, One Ongoing Focus: Once again this year, we had the honor of hearing many remarkable teachers at our gatherings in San Francisco and Nashville, including Hahrie Han (Johns Hopkins), Paula Stone Williams (TEDx), Yii-Jan Lin (Yale), Angela Parker (Mercer), Reem Assil (award-winning Bay Area chef), Jeff Chu (Travel+Leisure), Yara González-Justiniano (Vanderbilt), Brian McLaren (Center for Action and Contemplation), and Yolanda Pierce (Vanderbilt). And there is much more ahead! We hope many of you will join us in Berkeley for our winter gathering with Pádraig Ó Tuama. More details here! We have many more exciting developments to share with you in the coming weeks. For now, we‘d like to extend a special invitation to support the next phase of our work. A New Chapter in 2026In 2026, we will pursue independent nonprofit status, with our deepest gratitude to City Church San Francisco for two decades of extraordinarily fruitful partnership (you can read the fuller history here). As we seek to lift many voices, we also invite many hands to sustain our shared mission.
If you feel called to consider a financial gift, you would be joining a diverse community of valued partners who work together so that each contribution has greater reach and impact. Support from foundations, churches, educational institutions, and program tuition makes up the majority of our operating budget—approximately $365,000, or 88%. That leaves the final 12%—$50,000—that we are seeking to raise from members and friends of Faith and Justice. Your gift now helps strengthen our infrastructure and staff capacity as we prepare for the next chapter of our work. Though this amount represents a smaller portion of our overall budget, it is no less essential. While many grants are restricted to direct program costs, your generosity sustains our team and creates space for innovation. If Faith and Justice has encouraged, challenged, or accompanied you in any way this year, we would be deeply grateful to hear from you. And if you’re able, a year-end gift of any amount—large or small—helps us finish the year strong. Here are a few giving levels to help you consider impact:
Each gift, at any level, reflects a powerful shared commitment. Thank you for being part of our community as we pursue a theological imagination for the common good—together. With gratitude, Peter Choi
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