Health care access, town hall meetings, misunderstandings and angry confrontations are the news this month. We've compiled information to help you sort it all out.

First consider that Christian traits include truth-telling, caring for the 'least of these' and reconciling people who have different points of view. We're not working on health care out of self-interest. That's why we get a different hearing than the many lobbyists in Washington, D.C. and the folks arguing in print and person.

Second, here are resources.

Choose a Sunday to Pray, Reflect and Act. Use these MCC resources to advocate for health care for all.

Encourage your congregation to write letters to legislators. Jim Schrag, Mennonite Church USA executive director, wrote letters to 100 representatives and 20 senators, promising they would also receive contacts from congregations. Here is information to help you make those contacts: <http://peace.mennolink.org/resources/healthcare/index.html>

We are preparing health care access educators willing to come to your congregation to help you sort through information (contact SusanML@MennoniteUSA.org) and, in early September, large conference calls with experts. Be sure to subscribe to MennoLink.peace.news <http://www.mennolink.org/email/reg.cgi?grp+menno.org.peace.news> so you receive timely updates. (MennoLink.peace.news has an average weekly volume of nine emails of information about current events, advocacy opportunities and Mennonite happenings. Anyone may join; only staff may send messages. We encourage every Mennonite Church USA congregation to have one person watching the list. Subject lines are descriptive; open only what you care about.)

Adequate health care is a human right. Let's work for the best plan possible.