Ask Congress to defend investments in refugee resettlement while urging the administration to restart fair, unbiased refugee admissions.

Since January 20, the Trump administration has resettled only a small number of refugees – a few dozen white South Africans, as well as approximately 70 refugees admitted through ongoing litigation and under waivers to the refugee ban – while stranding over 120,000 conditionally approved and vetted refugees, some of whom have been waiting for years for resettlement. At the same time, the administration has slashed funding for refugee processing, admissions, and resettlement. 

The ELCA’s social message on Immigration states: “We draw on the best of our nation’s traditions as a refuge and haven for the persecuted and destitute when we affirm that ‘we support a generous policy of welcome for refugees and immigrants.’” This tradition stretches back to the years following World War II, when one out of every six Lutherans in the world was a refugee or displaced person, and Lutherans in the United States resettled tens of thousands of refugees in the United States. It continues today through the many Lutheran congregations, communities and ministries that welcome and support refugees.  

As Congress debates the fiscal year 2026 (FY26) budget, ask Congress to defend federal investments in refugee processing, admissions and resettlement services. Ask your representatives to urge the administration to set a refugee admissions goal of 125,000 in FY26 and to ensure refugee admissions prioritize the most vulnerable, regardless of their country of origin, race or faith tradition. 

Customize this message with your faith convictions and connections to refugee resettlement in your community. Thank you for speaking out in support of refugee resettlement! Learn more here about ELCA’s strategy to welcome, accompany and support immigrants and refugees in our communities.  

Nevada cities are banning homeless encampments in record heat. With too few shelters, people are being punished just for surviving.

This isn’t compassion. It’s cruelty.

As people of faith, we stand with our unhoused neighbors.
✊ Join the fight for housing justice.

Rural communities in Nevada and across the U.S. are losing access to healthcare at alarming rates. Between 2019 and 2024, small towns lost nearly 2,500 physicians and 3,300 practices closed, leaving patients with 11% fewer options for care (KNPR).

Independent doctors are being hit the hardest — their numbers have dropped by 43% in rural areas. For Nevadans outside Reno and Las Vegas, that means longer drives, delayed checkups, and fewer specialists close to home.

The reasons are clear: low reimbursement rates, high malpractice costs, limited residency opportunities, and financial pressures that make rural practice unsustainable.

What Nevada needs: more residency slots, fairer reimbursement, loan-repayment incentives, and support for rural practices. Healthcare is a matter of justice — and no community should be left behind.

Critical programs that protect the integrity of our air, soil, water, and the habitats that sustain all living creatures are at risk.

As Congress considers a budget for 2026, proposals across the government would make deep cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds, Superfund cleanup and environmental justice programs—rolling back progress on safeguarding public health and creation care. These cuts could result in increased pollution of our air, contamination of our water and degradation of the habitats creation calls home. As people of faith, we are called to steward creation so that all life may flourish. Programs that protect clean air, restore soil health, provide safe drinking water and safeguard habitats for wildlife are essential for the well-being of our neighbors, human and nonhuman alike.  

As the ELCA social statement Caring for Creation: Vision, Hope, and Justice cautions, “Our current practices may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner we know.” 

Join us in asking Congress to ensure their budget negotiations reflect the vision of creation flourishing! What do you see locally? Customize this message to increase its effectiveness. 

HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!

The Nevada Public Utilities Commission is ruling on NV Energy’s rate hike request:

Rates will go up

• Starting April 2026: new daily demand charge (your bill will depend on your highest daily use).
• Solar customers: current customers are safe, but new ones will see changes.
• Low-income families: no discount yet, but solutions are being studied.

We’re fighting to make sure community voices are heard and families aren’t left behind.