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March
4-7 is the next Sankofa trip with the Department of Compassion, Mercy, and
Justice. Superintendent Dick Lucco and Debbie Blue (Executive Minister for the
Department of CMJ) will be the facilitators of this trip. The GLC office
encourages the churches to ask people to go on this trip; it is an amazing
experience. For more information see below or go to http://www.covchurch.org/cmj/ministry/rr/sankofa-journey.
Jody
Eidnes
What is SANKOFA?
Sankofa is a West African word meaning
“looking backward to move forward.” The Sankofa journey, an intentional,
cross-racial prayer journey, seeks to assist disciples of Christ on their move
towards a righteous response to the social ills related to racism. This
interactive experience explores historic sites of importance in the Civil
Rights movement, sites of oppression and inequality for people of color, while
seeking to move participants toward healing the wounds and racial divide caused
by hundreds of years of racial injustice in the USA.
A Sankofa journey increases one’s
awareness, understanding and sensitivity for past struggles, victories and
continuing racist oppression existing in our country, how far we have come, and
how far we have yet to go.
Sankofa allows us the opportunity
to consider how together, we might better address racial righteousness in our
church, our nation, and our world.
On this 72-hour bus journey,
participants will travel to critical sites of past and present racial
injustice, such as Birmingham, AL, Memphis, TN, Albany, GA and Atlanta, GA.
They will meet and hear from persons directly involved in ministries of justice
in southern Georgia, visit places like the 16th Street Baptist Church, civil
rights institutions, the Martin Luther King Center, and more.
A Sankofa journey is not just
about information of the past and present, but seeks to be a journey for both
personal and corporate change – simply put, a journey of spiritual
transformation. Through sites visited, videos watched, and active processing of
the journey, relationships of trust are deepened in an environment of grace.
The Sankofa Journey moves beyond the classroom setting to an
interactive and intentional cross-racial partnership experience. The journey is
an essential building block in addressing racial righteousness. Participants
will explore and experience past sites of the Civil Rights movement, present
realities of injustice and oppression, a sampling of Covenant ministries living
out the Kingdom vision.
Jody Eidnes-
Office Administrator
Great
Lakes Conference
7001 N. Haggerty Rd.
Canton, MI 48187
Phone:
734-451-4670
Fax:
734-451-4672
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Website:
www.greatlakes.cc
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