Community Outreach

Q: Are you interested in living out your faith and love for all creation?

United offers a plethora of opportunities to live out your faith, embody God’s love, and allow for hope to emerge throughout Santa Fe and the world.

Upcoming Outreach Opportunities:

Provide a dish for our monthly dinner at St. Elizabeth’s Shelter, next on December 15th, January 19th, and February 16th.

Join the Adult Mission Trip to Southern Arizona and Northern Mexico on January 15-21. Speak with Brandon Johnson (988-3295 or unitedsfbdj@aol.com) for more details.

Volunteer to help with the Overflow Shelter from February 7th to 13th.

Take part in our Annual Alternative Gift Market (on Sundays, Nov. 29 and Dec. 6) to to give a gift of change that will not just add more stuff under the Christmas tree. Gifts include feeding the hungry, restoring forests, educating rural children, and meeting many other global needs. There will also be opportunties to help local programs and purchase organic free-trade coffee and chocolate!

United Church Santa Fe currently sponsors church-based outreach ministries with volunteers and financial support:

  • Salazar-Agua Fria School Partnership
  • Adult Mission Trips
  • Annual CROP Walk
  • Santa Fe Alternative Gift Market

United also helped start and continues to support community-wide organizations:

  • Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity.
  • St. Elizabeth’s Shelter for the Homeless
  • Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families

In addition, the church also provides financial support for a number of other organizations, such as:

  • Youth Shelter & Family Services
  • The Hospice Center
  • Bread for the World
  • NM Coalition to End Homelessness
  • Food for Santa Fe
  • SF Rape Crisis Center
  • Pastoral Counseling Center
  • “Our Church's Wider Mission” of the United Church of Christ

The church has also been a leader in advocacy for human rights for GLBT persons, as well as legislation for education and health care for all.

Many of our members serve on nonprofit boards including our Senior Minister, Talitha Arnold, who currently serves on the Bioethics Committee for St. Vincent’s Hospital. She was a founding member of the city Children’s and Youth Commission, President of Habitat for Humanity, and the Ministerial Alliance.











“... but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?”
Micah 6:8