An interactive training offered to your congregation or conference that will introduce the foundation of understanding systemic racism and the Gospel’s call to be actively antiracist.

This training can be offered for both Youth and Adults.

Working with you and within your context we can create interactive trainings that will meet you where you are with specific learning goals. For example we have led “Theological Foundations of AntiRacism”; Justice Informed Pastoral and Congregational Care.”; “Distinguishing Whiteness from Core Identity”; Deeper Dives into the Histories of Specific Locations.

Both youth and adult trainings can be designed.

Consultation for congregations wishing to transform their own policies and practices to embody antiracism.

This is for congregations that have already done introductory work to understand racism.

The collective will work with congregational leaders to determine their readiness for this process.

During the Lenten season of 2024, the SEMI Synod BRRICK Team led a six week Anti-Racist Teach-in. We met each week at Zion Lutheran Church in Ferndale where we broke bread with each other then on Zoom we brought in powerful black voices from around the ELCA to lead us in various discussions that took theological topics we would have learned in catechism and approached them from an anti-racist perspective, and finally each night ended with evening prayer. You can see the flyer below with all of our topics. As well, all of our sessions were recorded and you can find those recordings on our YouTube channel.