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Why Have A Reconciliation Mission Offering?

The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) has a history dating from the 1960s of sharing our resources to address the racism of our society and the racism within our own church. We have called this process the Reconciliation Mission.

We receive this offering in the fall and use the funds throughout the year to give grants to the anti-racism iniative to organize to dismantle racism and to offer grants to address the effects of racism.

The 2020 Vision adopted by our church names this work as one of the four priorities of our mission together as a whole church. This voluntary annual offering is the only source of funding for this ministry.

The form of this ministry may be changing, but the need for addressing racism has never been more obvious.

As our church grows and becomes more diverse, our mission of reaching people with the saving good news of Jesus will be compromised if we have not addressed the racism in our own church and in our communities.

This is not a time to pull back from this mission just when our church has begun to add so many new ethnic congregations. This is a time to leap forward in this work and reach deep in prayer and organizing to stretch toward the new church we are becoming together.