Happy #FreedomFriday, readers!
As you may be aware, we decided to spend this month introducing our team of Freedom Fighters. Each member of our LMDJ team has been answering the same five questions so you can get to know us. …
Category: Sankofa
Freedom to Fight
“I have been in some kind of fight – for freedom,
equality, basic human rights – for nearly my entire life.”
equality, basic human rights – for nearly my entire life.”
One week ago today we lost a hero. U.S. Rep. John Lewis was a living testimony of our
Sankofa: This is My Story Too
By Matt Ness, Co-Pastor of One Church, Louisville, KY
photo credit: Helen Salley
Last week I went on a three-and-a-half-day journey through the south. We slept two nights on the bus. There were as many emotions as there were miles. …
Sankofa: Go Back and Get It
by David Swanson, Pastor, New Community Covenant Church
Last weekend I participated in a Sankofa Journey, a three-day cross-racial bus ride through southern Civil Rights sites. Jon White and I did this same trip together six years ago and the …
Choosing Presence and Lament
by Abigail Heath, Sankofa Journey participant, Lafayette, IN
We pulled up alongside a beautiful, brick church, and I tried to imagine the scene of bloody chaos that played out there only a couple of decades ago. We walk inside and …
5 things to know before you go on Sankofa
by Nilwona Nowlin, Redemptive Artist
I’ve been on over 10 Sankofa Journeys, often multiple times in a year – and sometimes two in one month! (To learn more about why, read this.) As noble as that sounds, all those …
Leaning In
By Christine Moolo, Manager of LMDJ Ministry Services, The Evangelical Covenant Church
Leaning In. My thought-life did a 180 degree turn when I stepped on the Sankofa bus a few years back. Before I participated in the ECC’s Sankofa Journey …