Who's at the Table

Denominations, networks, and partners organizing together.

MPS includes both longstanding and emerging denominations within the broader Mainline Protestant tradition, Peace Church traditions, and the advocacy and organizing networks that partner alongside them.

At the table

Partners

  • Alliance of Baptists
  • American Baptist Home Mission Society
  • American Friends Service Committee
  • Baptist Joint Committee
  • The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
  • Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
  • The Episcopal Church
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
  • Faith in Action
  • Faith in Public Life
  • Gamaliel Network
  • Indiana Organizing Project
  • Latino Christian National Network
  • National Council of Churches
  • Sojourners / SojoAction
  • United Church of Christ
  • United Methodist Church

Additional denominational and ecumenical partners are actively engaged in conversation with MPS and are expected to join the table as the initiative unfolds.

Partners seated around a long table in discussion
A participant listening during a session
Leadership

Led by experienced faith and organizing leaders.

Principal Convener

Michael-Ray Mathews

Strategy, relationships, and overall direction.

Operations Lead

Alia Zaki-Ludwig

Operational backbone and stewardship of the convening process.

Lead Organizer · Detention Center Accountability Campaign

Michael Woolf

Organizing clergy and congregations into sustained accountability work.

Communications Coordinator

Hojung Lee

The wider coalition

The seven streams of Powered by Faith.

MPS is one of seven faith streams organizing in coordination across the coalition.

  • Black Church
  • Catholic
  • Evangelical
  • Jewish
  • Loosely Affiliated
  • Mainline Protestant
  • Muslim
Consulting partners

Strategy, research, and communications support.

Organizing, campaign & political strategy

Give Light Consulting

Matt Hammer, Principal

Research and collateral design

Hattaway Communications

Media and narrative strategy

The Raben Group
Faith in Democracy
Freedom Road

There is room at this table.

Bring your congregation, your network, your moral voice into this moment.