The NAACP has always had a strong relationship with the religious community — one of its closest allies for nearly a century. The NAACP Stockton Branch Religious Affairs Committee collaborates with Religious Leaders within the community to conduct religious affairs workshops, educate pastors, churches and religious leaders on the history and programs of the NAACP, present moral and ethical interpretations of the civil rights struggle and the church’s relationship to the struggle for all denominations.

The Religious Affairs Committee shall include ministerial and lay religious leaders who are members of the branch. It shall: (1) promote an educational program designed to give a moral and ethical interpretation to the civil rights struggle; (2) interpret the work of the Association to organized religious groups of all faiths; (3) enlist the support of such organized religious groups for membership, fund raising and the struggle for equality and full civil rights; and (4) provide resource assistance for religious education and social action activities associated with the improvement of race relations.

The purpose of the Religious Affairs Prayer Breakfast is to promote prosperity and good health throughout the community and encourage local congregations to be involved. The Religious Affairs Committee recognize community advocates for their hard work and dedication to the civil rights movement. The Religious Affair Committee’s criteria for Awards: 

• Health Award: Acknowledge an individual as a premier advocate for civil rights and equal opportunity. The committee will recognize the community leaders' track record of major accomplishments in the health industry and applied knowledge to secure their surrounding community’s outlook. This highly considered person has created a program that has made improvements to the community’s health disposition, reached specific goals, and the program has demonstrated the ability that allowed them to address other critical health challenges within the community. 
• Education Award: Acknowledge an individual as a premier advocate for civil rights and equal opportunity. The committee will recognize the community leaders’ capability of establishing community awareness of the necessary intellectual, economical and psychosocial obligation that promotes and supports the core as well as the overall well being of the youth’s educational curriculum, standards, and safety. 
• Community Advocate Award: Acknowledge an individual as a premier advocate for civil rights and equal opportunity. The committee will recognize the community leaders' ability to create projects/programs, positive impact within the community, to uplift and service others, and volunteer activities. 
• Shepherd Award: Acknowledge an individual as a premier advocate for civil rights and equal opportunity. The committee will recognize the Theological leadership and advocacy ability to encourage a group of people to live by a moral and ethical standard of living, promote growth and unity resulting in an established successful community place of worship
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Acknowledge an individual as a premier advocate for civil rights and equal opportunity. The committee will recognize the community leaders’ accomplishments and contributions throughout the community over a span of 25+ years, and has consistently worked for the betterment and development of the community.