Join PDS Black Alumni, Friends, and Family for a reception in the Princeton Public Library Community Room.

65 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ 08542

No registration necessary. Join on zoom using this link: https://zoom.us/j/94405040254

This webinar is hosted by Theology, Formation and Evangelism in the Presbyterian Mission Agency and is part of our Scattered Church ministries.

Two congregations came together in partnership around the invitation of Matthew 25 to have courageous conversations and to take steps towards dismantling structural racism. They were transformed!

We will hear from these churches, one predominately white and one historically black, that developed a small group model for conversation and action, all during the pandemic and on zoom! Leaders from Nassau Presbyterian Church and Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey will be present to share their story and best practices as you learn to translate this model to your own context.

A template for this small group ministry partnership has been created and will be available as a FREE download during this webinar. Background, tips for creating your own ministry and sample lessons and resources will be included. There will be break-out groups and a Q and A.

All church leaders are welcome to attend.

In 1962, James Baldwin wrote an essay for The New York Times Book Review entitled, "As Much Truth as One Can Bear." He insisted that the nation leave behind its preoccupation with innocence and confront its failures. And this required that we "describe us to ourselves as we are now." What would that involve today? How might we think about our current crisis and what we need to do now to reimagine America? Baldwin had it right in 1962: the trouble is deeper than we wish to think, because the trouble is in us.