21 Day Equity Racial Justice Challenge
Many Americans are feeling racial tension, anger, pain and fear. The news has plenty of examples of racial injustice. Across the country and throughout this nation’s history, millions more who are not in the daily headlines know the pain and the fear of having routines of daily life, along with their hopes and dreams, curtailed by racism and injustice.
This is nothing new. If we’re honest, most of us will admit we’ve lived within a society rooted in systemic racism our whole lives.
There is a growing awareness among Presbyterians that racism is a crisis that must be addressed. The PC(USA) and the Presbytery of Donegal and we at Westminster are strongly committed to the struggle for racial equity and justice. We believe the church should lead in the effort to dismantle structural racism.
Many ministry colleagues and friends who are persons of color have said they are worn out trying to convince white congregations there is a problem. They are in pain and feel the church as a whole could be a force for good and change if it really wanted to. They point to societal transformation the church has accomplished in the past and is still affecting today. They wonder why the same energy cannot be put into the fight against racism.
Join Westminster as we journey together with other Donegal Presbytery congregations to learn more about issues of race and racism in this country and how we can be a force for antiracism in our community and world. This updated 21-Day Race Equity Challenge can also be found on the Donegal Presbytery website.
Here is how the challenge works:
- Over 21 days, pick one, from the resources listed below. There are multiple resources from which to choose.
- Diversify your understanding by doing something from different categories: Watch, Read, Listen or Notice.
- Share your reflections on our Facebook Group or through this form.
- Pray for the places where you are challenged, and for those you are learning about whose lives may be different than yours.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr
Lord, we thank you for your church, founded upon your Word, that challenges us to do more than sing and pray, but to go out and work as though the very answer to our prayers depended on us and not upon you. Help us to realize that humanity was created to shine like the stars and live on through all eternity. Keep us, we pray, in perfect peace. Help us to walk together, pray together, sing together, and live together until that day when all God’s children will rejoice in one common band of humanity in the reign of our Lord and of our God, we pray. Amen.