Service for Racial Justice
Monday, August 15, 2016 - 7:00pm
This new worship experience, “Service for Racial Justice” envisions a multi-ethnic worshipping community that actively works towards greater understanding on issues of racism and white privilege through listening and mindfulness as we gain greater insight and understanding. Our desire is to cultivate the "Beloved Community," facing racism locally, while having a national impact, through contemplation and action.
This service came about from the desire to continue the spirit that was experienced on Monday night, July 11 when Westminster hosted a “Service of Grief, Protest, and Pursuit of Change” in partnership with The Wooster/Orrville NAACP and area churches . This service was organized in response to the unjustified killings by law enforcement officers in the United States as well as the senseless execution of five police officers in Dallas, Texas by a lone gunman at a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest march. Read the article Many faith traditions call for peace that was published in the Wooster Weekly News.
For now we are planning to have the service on the third Monday of each month (time might change) beginning August 15 at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 353 East Pine Street.
For more information contact Pastor Andries Coetzee.
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