Whatever happens with the national election the day prior, let's gather to hold sacred space together and continue our healing journey toward creating beloved community. We invite you to bring all of your emotions, and we will begin / continue to process those both individually and collectively in healthy ways.
Join us online via Zoom for one hour on Wednesday, November 6, with a focus on Holding Sacred Space. If you would like additional prayer following this gathering, we will have a number of people available to pray with individual participants in breakout rooms for up to an additional half hour.
ELCA Coaching is collaborating with Rev. Brenda Smith (ELCA), Deacon Tammy Devine (ELCA), and Rev. Candy Holmes (MCC) as we discern where Spirit might be collectively leading us as people of faith. We began gathering online with faith leaders in March of 2020 to wrestle together with Being Church in a global pandemic, which transitioned over the summer of 2021 to Courageous Leadership, as COVID revealed our perceptions and misconceptions about most things in life. Jesus is our primary model as we move toward Creating Beloved Community: Healing Together, gathering the first Wednesday of each month (with additional bonus Wednesdays) for the next year as we learn together and experiment in community with a variety of spiritual practices and focus areas (such as healing, liberation, decolonization, and much more), while also creating a template for faith communities to use in their own contexts.
We believe this is in attunement with our call as Christians from:
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Scripture and our expanding understanding and expression of love for ALL of our neighbors
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MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail and Vision of the Beloved Community
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ELCA Teaching, and especially our "connection to all of life"
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ELCA Truth and Healing Movement (as facilitated by Indigenous Ministries and Tribal Relations)
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Dr. Shawn Ginwright's The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves
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And so many other diverse voices and sacred ways we engage with each other and with the world.
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To answer some commonly asked questions about these regular gatherings:
"Why are you still meeting?" "Don't become too familiar with loneliness. Community is a risk, but liberation depends on the collective. Who can you trust to hold you?" -- Cole Arthur Riley, author of Black Liturgies
Login information can be found below and on the ELCA Coaching website: https://www.
Recordings from prior gatherings can be found here: https://www.
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