Our Response to Racism.
Our Response to Racism.
These are just a few of the steps that we are taking so that this family is equipped to lead a vibrant, diverse, life-giving church that combats racism.
What we ask of you:
PRAY & FAST
Be slow to speak and quick to listen
Model your approach to this the way Jesus did
To better equip you, we’ve compiled a list of resources that we highly encourage you to invest in. Especially before commenting, posting or arguing on something you may not be aware of and may not have a biblical foundation.
Resources.
Studies.
The Church and the Racial Divide by Lifeway
Oneness Embraced with Tony Evans
The Color of Compromise with Jemar Tisby
Race, Justice and the Church with Eric Mason
Bloodlines with John Piper
Books.
Woke Church by Eric Mason
White Picket Fences by Amy Julia Becker
One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love by John Perkins
Self Portrait in Black and White by Thomas Chatterton
The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum
White Awake by Daniel Hill
Third Option by Miles McPherson
The Myth of Equality by Ken Wytsma
Insider Outsider by Bryan Loritts
One Blood by John M. Perkins
Divided by Faith by Christian Smith and Michael Emerson
High Definition by Derwin Gray
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Be The Bridge by Latasha Morrison
Stamped From The Beginning by Ibrahim Kendi
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Movies.
13th – Ava DuVernay
Hidden Figures – Theodore Melfi
Just Mercy – Destin Daniel Cretton
Selma – Ava DuVernay
The Hate U Give – George Tillman Jr.
When They See Us – Ava DuVernay
Fruitvale Station
Harriet
12 years a slave
Emanuel
Blindspotting
American Son
The Kaleif Browder Story
The Innocence Files
The Central Park Five
Our Leadership.
Pastor Rodrigo Vargas - born in Chile and migrated to the USA in 1980, was an illegal alien and experienced racism.
Pastor Sara Vargas - born in Houston, TX and raised in diverse Alief, TX to a white mother who worked with marginalized communities and a father with Portuguese descent.
Pastor Andra Morrell - born and raised near Ann Arbor, MI is African American and has had many experiences in numerous cultures through ministry and education.
Pastor Susan Wadley - born in and raised in Houston, TX to immigrant parents from Egypt, Africa with middle eastern descent.