Design for Cultural Exchange and Racial Reconciliation Among Children
2020-21: This project will help shape the racial consciousness of children and youth in a way that would orient them toward loving their neighbor rightly. The project is also a call to churches in their community to a new or renewed sense of commitment to racial reconciliation, and a way to create spaces for cultural exchange within its preschool between children and leaders of color by providing a teaching opportunity for an immigrant or Native Spanish Speaker.
2021-22: This project will continue work to help shape the racial consciousness of children and youth in a way that would orient them toward loving their neighbor rightly. This is a renewal grant.
Ronnie serves as the director of the Strengthening Ministry with Children Coordination Program at Indiana Wesleyan University. He was formerly pastor of REAL Community Covenant Church and led the DREAM Preschool Academy.
Congregational and Community grants provide support for urban pastors, churches, faith-based community organizations, and theological institutions to share resources, ideas, and practices for life-giving ministry in cities across North America. Typically, we invite those who have not previously had access to resources or grant funding. This inaugural cohort of grantees included organizations working with children and youth, capacity building for a community. ministry, support for community healthcare, and research on congregational responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Congregational and community grants provide support for urban pastors, churches, faith-based community organizations, and theological institutions to share resources, ideas, and practices for life-giving ministry in cities across North America. Typically, we invite those who have not previously had access to resources or grant funding.
