Freedom Church of the Poor is starting soon! Tune in live via our Facebook page or follow along in this thread. #FreedomChurchOfThePoor
🎵 The day's gonna come when I wont march no more! Ciara Taylor starts us off with leading us in the song, "Hand In Hand"
The reading for today's service
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I set you apart;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
biblegateway.com/passage/?searc… #Bible #FreedomChurch
"God needs prophets to respond to modern exploitation, to build, to plant, and to sow the seeds of a new world upon the ground of the old" - Zac White, Freedom Church Of The Poor.
Exploring history through the lens of organization of the dispossessed. Lessons from the Watts Uprising.
"We are brothers and sisters, and whatever pains you pains me." - Rev Dr Martin Luther King JR #MLK
"#MLK showed up for the community in Watts, just as he showed up for the sanitation workers in Memphis... He understood that although the struggle did not look the same in Watts as it did where he is coming from,
the Watts struggle was important." Ciara Taylor, @KairosCenterNYC
We are closing out with Rev. Lindsey Oliver's "Set It Off" You can find the song in our #WeCryJustice Arts Companion kairoscenter.org/resources_cpt/…
Join us for upcoming events including a new bi-weekly 30min conversation series, It's Kairos Time! RSVP to join us LIVE this Tuesday, August 23rd at 7PM for a conversation about the role of devotionals w/ @AndrewJWilkes, @GabbyCWilkes @LaborReligion! bit.ly/ItsKairosTime
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