"July TGIP Monthly Peace: Race, Borders, and a Call to Contend" from San Diego, California, United States - The Global Immersion Project "Welcome to the TGIP monthly newsletter" for Wednesday, 27 July 2016The Monthly Peace"We heard stories, wept, prayed, learned, and wrestled with what it means to see, immerse, contend and restore in our own lives. We built nothing... Other than a new way of seeing the world around us and our place in it."
Read a reflection from Jen Bradbury on the latest student Immigrants' Journey Learning Lab here.
Upcoming TGIP Events
Over the past year, we have been honored to expand further into creative partnerships with leading academic institutions, introducing TGIP’s Everyday Peacemaking framework alongside intelligent and passionate students and leaders. Jer Swigart will be at the University of Northwestern-St. Paul in August to explore how TGIP can assist them through curriculum, experiential learning, and reimagining service learning. In September, Jon Huckins will be at Westmont College to offer a lecture entitled "Global peacemaking as discipleship: Lessons from Welcoming the Stranger" and will lead a faculty forum on peacemaking and immigration.
To learn more about our academic partnerships, check out the current issue of Advance magazine from the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities. Our friends from CCCU joined TGIP for an Immigrants’ Journey Learning Lab last winter, and share compelling reflections of their experience. If you are connected with an academic institution and would like to explore ways to partner with TGIP, contact us here.
1) eCourse: We recently launched our very first eCourse, Developing Uncommon Friendships. In this eCourse, TGIP co-founders Jon Huckins and Jer Swigart challenge common perspectives and offer a practical guide for developing uncommon friendships. Throughout this five-week course, you will go on a journey that will equip you to See, Immerse, and Contend with and for those whom you have othered. Ultimately, you will learn to develop collaborative relationships that lead to tangible restoration. It's a self-paced eCourse, so take it on your own timing for as long as you need (with lifetime access).
2) LISTEN: The Liturgists podcast on Black and White in America. Michael Gungor and Science Mike talk with Propaganda and William Matthews about race, racism, and white supremacy in America.
3) READ: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. A stunning account of the rebirth of a caste system that has left many African American men behind bars. The New Jim Crow tells a truth our nation is reluctant to face.
4) LINKS: As the racial divide widens between blacks and whites in the US, it is time we begin listening long to one another. Here are four important sermons delivered on July 10th and in the immediate wake of a violent week in which black and white lives were prematurely extinguished. Each preacher is a friend and participant in the Everyday Peacemaking movement. We invite you to join us in listening to the pain, the wisdom, and the exhortation of these four preachers: two black and two white.
News from Around the World
Race has been heavy in the news these days. With multiple shootings of black men by police officers and multiple police officers shot, tensions are high and people are angry, hurt, frustrated, and unsure where to go from here. This is a chance for us to step into the space and practice the work of peacemaking in a very tangible way. As Krista Tippet said,"How do we stand before pain? Could we just hold that question, in a space between injury and reaction, together?"
The organization Black Clergy United for Change (BCUC) was founded in December 2015 following the tragic death of Jamar Clark in Minneapolis. It's a collective of black clergy committed to the work of racial justice and social transformation in urban communities and abroad. They are about social justice, community engagement, and networking with pastors.
Everyday Peacemaking Practices: CONTEND
CONTEND - Everyday Peacemakers contend for the flourishing of others not by getting even, but by getting creative in love. Contending requires that we stand in front of any bulldozer that is flattening people. Whether the “bulldozer” is a local or systemic injustice or an abusive relationship or addiction, we are called to tangibly stand in its way to free the abused from the oppression of the abuser.
Jesus contended for our flourishing not through military overthrow, but through suffering and self sacrifice. What or who are you being called to contend for today? What might it cost you to do so?
Here's a heroic story of a young girl who was shot in the head for proposing that girls should get an education. Not only did she survive, she went on to CONTEND for the rights of women world-wide not with guns, but with books and pens.
Meet TGIP Financial and Communications Coordinator, Melissa Wilcox.
Melissa is the Administrative Director for Thresholds and the Financial and Communications Coordinator for The Global Immersion Project. She graduated with a degree in Psychology and now uses that on her two little boys and adventuring husband. Melissa writes at her blog, Notes from the Messy Beautiful, and has contributed articles to Relevant and Incourage. She grew up overseas in Hungary, and has lived in southern California ever since. Melissa has worked in administrative roles for about eight years, and loves systems and spreadsheets. When she isn’t working, she can be found walking around the neighborhood with her boys or studying personality tests. Melissa resides in San Diego with her family and an intentional community of people.
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