Samaritan Ministry 2023 Gala — The Arc of Change: Celebrating Next Steps East of the River

Samaritan Ministry 2023 Gala — The Arc of Change: Celebrating Next Steps East of the River

Samaritan Ministry of Greater Washington invites you to its 37th annual Gala, The Arc of Change: Celebrating Next Steps East of the River, on Saturday November 4th at the the Town Hall Education Art Recreation Campus (THEARC) West. The Gala takes place from 5:30 to 8:30pm and includes a cocktail reception, sumptuous hors d’oeuvres, silent and live auctions, annual awards, and plenty of onsite parking. Space is limited, so we encourage you to purchase your tickets now — or become a sponsor, which will entitle you to complimentary tickets, among other benefits. And if you can’t attend, we hope you’ll contribute to the Gala’s success by making a donation! Proceeds will fund Samaritan’s NEXT STEP program, a mutual ministry which employs intensive casework, coaching and other support to empower the DC-area’s returning citizens, homeless and unemployed to transform their lives. For more information, go to https://bit.ly/SMGWGala2023.

Author Talk: “For the Culture: A Genealogy Handbook for the Kool Kids”

Author Talk: “For the Culture: A Genealogy Handbook for the Kool Kids”

Not everyone can create a family tree; however, everyone has a family story. Join the Crummell-Cooper Chapter, UBE, in conversation with historian and genealogist, Aungelic Nelson, a member of St. Luke’s-DC, as she guides us through her book specifically written for young people of color. Learn the beginning steps in finding information about your family, to include free resources. Learn the importance of documenting all you can, even though you might have a “family shrub.” This is an opportunity for the young and the sages to learn together, so bring the young folk. This event is online and free.

Reparations: Discover, Verify, Share – Investigating Your Parish’s History with Racism

Reparations: Discover, Verify, Share – Investigating Your Parish’s History with Racism

Graphic reads Learn, Verify, and Share: Reparations: How to Investigate Your Parish's History with Racism

In this brief video, archivist and parishioner at St. Thomas’, Croom, Franklin Robinson, Jr., discusses three steps that can help congregations investigate their parish’s history with institutional racism. “Discover, verify, and share,” he says, and “…Engage in truth telling, not truth judging.”

This fall, the diocese will host Repairing the Breach: A Symposium on Reparations to continue our shared work in reckoning with our diocesan history of participation in anti-Black racism. To help prepare congregations and leaders for the symposium, we’ll continue to share videos about reparations and we invite you to participate in the two-session course offered through the School for Christian Faith and Leadership, Repairing the Breach Course: An Exploration of Reparations.

Reparations: A Process of Grace, Relationship, and Creativity

Reparations: A Process of Grace, Relationship, and Creativity

Reparations A Process of Grace, Relationship, and Creativity

“Our diocese,” the Rev. Peter Jarrett-Schell explains in this video, “has spent two hundred years bound to a history of racial oppression. Reparations is the slow process of freeing ourselves from the gilded cage of white supremacy, melting it down, and making something new. It is a process of grace, relationship, and creativity.”

This fall, the diocese will host Repairing the Breach: A Symposium on Reparations to continue our shared work in reckoning with our diocesan history of participation in anti-Black racism. To help prepare congregations and leaders for the symposium, we’ll be sharing more videos about reparations in the Bulletin and invite you to participate in the two-session course offered through the School for Christian Faith and Leadership, Repairing the Breach Course: An Exploration of Reparations.