Beloved Community Learning Opportunity: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Sonoma County | Church of the Incarnation

Over the next couple of months, you will hear more about a new ministry being developed here at Incarnation called Beloved Community. You will be invited to book studies, like the Lenten Book Study as well as field trips and community opportunities to engage with our neighbors. This event is our first invitation please join us Thursday February 23 at Healdsburg Community Center 6:30-8:30pm to learn about the Diversity, equity and Inclusion in our community.

Beloved community: A community of people who help one another to grow into all that they were created to be; where each person is as committed to the other’s flourishing and to the flourishing of the whole as they are to their own; and where the members are willing to sacrifice their own comfort and even their lives for the sake of the other and for the dream they share. (pg. 25 Church Cracked Open, Stephanie Spellers)

For more details see below:

The City of Healdsburg is hosting a series of 5 conversations that focus on diversity, equity and inclusion. These conversations are intended to encourage understanding about the current reality in the community.

All sessions will be held at the Healdsburg Community Center Multi-Purpose Room (1557 Healdsburg Avenue).

The first session was on January 26 and focused on the Indigenous Community.
The second session will be on February 23 from 6:30-8:30 pm. The title is "Is the Dream Alive and Well in Healdsburg?" and will provide the contemporary and historical experience of the African American Community in Healdsburg and Sonoma County.
The third session will be on March 9 and is titled "Living Together: Housing and Planning for a Better Healdsburg."
The fourth session will be on March 30 and is titled "Labor Days: Migrant and Service Community Experiences in Healdsburg."
The fifth session will be on April 27 and is titled "Contemporary and Historical Experiences of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander Community in Healdsburg and Sonoma County.

We are planning to attend the conversation on February 23rd. If you would like to join us, please let us know. We can carpool or meet you at the event.

On the journey to the Beloved Community,

Daphne Vernon ([email protected])

Miriam Casey ([email protected])

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