Helpful Tools
Election Season Prayers and Liturgy.
These prayers have been created and curated by Kansas Interfaith Action and are intended to be used by individuals and by faith communities in the days leading up to the election, inspiring people of faith to vote, and/or in the days following the election, allowing us to process outcomes.
What Can Faith Communities Do Legally?
Although 501C3 orgs are prohibited from directly endorsing candidates or parties, there’s still a lot that faith communities can do!
Talk about the issues from the pulpit and in adult education classes.
Speak about the issues that matter to your community - justice, equity, care for the most vulnerable, access to food, shelter, and other basic necessities - and then remind folks that elections are the way we have a voice as people of faith in our government. Encourage folks to vote for your shared values!
Take a stand on constitutional amendments and ballot measures.
Nonprofit orgs may legally express positions on ballot measures, constitutional amendments, and other policies put to a direct vote of the public, with care taken not to support any particular candidate or party’s position. (Learn more about lobbying under the Insubstantial Part Test.) There’s an important issue coming up in the Kansas Primary on August 4.
Check out more information here.
Get out the vote.
Communities of faith can and should mobilize their voters! The Voter Network provides lots of ways to GOTV in Kansas.
Looking for more? Check out these resources:
A helpful guide from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on “Being a Public Church.”
Sermon/Preaching Resources
Here are a couple of resources for sermons and liturgies around the topics voting, political action, and civic engagement from the Christian tradition.
Sermon Starters & Liturgical Resources from Texas Impact
Resources from Working Preacher
Why is it important to preach and advocate during the election season?
