Good Trouble Mission Statement:
The Good Trouble Ministry seeks to challenge injustice and create
meaningful change that promotes civil liberties, voting rights, and social justice.
About the Good Trouble Ministry
The ministry of Jesus, as recorded in the synoptic gospels, was one of integrity and fidelity to the principles of love, compassion, and sacrificial leadership. Through word, example, and direct action, Jesus taught his disciples to practice and promote those values in order to address systems that oppressed the people, established inequality among groups, discriminated against individuals, replaced compassion with condemnation, rejected the “other” in society, and established barriers that kept some on the outside while promoting others.
With the spiritual foundation of Jesus’s ministry as a touchstone, the Good Trouble team takes to heart the words of civil rights activist and U.S. Congressman, John Lewis, to “make good trouble; necessary trouble” to address social, economic, and racial injustice, inequality in its many forms, and inhumanity wherever it is found. First Community Church has a variety of effective missions and ministries working tirelessly to help meet the needs of people in our community(ies) that arise from injustice, inequality, and inhumane treatment. The mission of the Good Trouble Ministry is to address the systemic causes of those issues. We make good trouble to promote actions, legislation, and institutions that advance equality, justice, and humane policies.
The Good Trouble Ministry seeks to bring about change by committing to non-partisan political activity and to modeling the principles of nonviolent advocacy and action. We are political in that we address systems of power and control but non-partisan in that we do not promote specific candidates or political parties. In addition to the principles and values found in the ministry of Jesus, we also commit to His example and the example of civil rights pioneers, by adopting a nonviolent approach to action and civil disobedience. Part of that work involves articulating a message of what we are for, not just what we oppose.
During the 2026 calendar year, the focus of our work falls into three “buckets”:
1) Promoting and preserving democratic and civil rights,
2) Election Education and Voters Rights,
3) Humane treatment of all our neighbors.
We invite all to join us in our Love Your Neighbor Rush Hour Rallies, voter education work, legislative advocacy, fellowship, and spiritual growth opportunities.
4.19.26