In general, riding the wave of God’s justice at work in the world, the Center for Mission & Justice is meant to help local churches come to awareness and action in the things of God’s justice in the context of the neighborhoods throughout the New England District. Such endeavors might include but not be limited to: immigration and the movement of peoples, the sanctity of human life at all levels and in all seasons (birth/health/death, etc.), stewardship of God’s creation, socio-economics, unjust disparities of people groups (race, religion, gender, etc.), the discapacitation of humans (incarceration, trafficking, addiction, etc.), child welfare (fostering, adoption, etc.), human conflict, and access to necessities of life (clothing, food, housing, education, health care, etc.).

The quest to restore God’s justice is characterized as highlighted by Jesus in his Nazarene sermon (Luke 4:14-30) and in the judgment parable of Matthew 25:31-46.