First Pres Restoring Justice

Join us in listening to Raymond Chang at Saturday's Panel on Faith and Racial Injustice: Pastor Raymond Chang is the president of AACC, a pastor, and writer. He regularly preaches God’s Word and speaks throughout the country on issues pertaining to Christianity and culture, race, and faith. He has lived throughout the world (Korea, Guatemala, Panama, Spain, China), traveled to over 50 countries throughout the world, and currently lives in Chicagoland, serving as a campus m...inister at Wheaton College. Prior to entering vocational ministry, Ray worked in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, and served in the Peace Corps in Panama. He is currently pursuing his PhD. He is married to Jessica Chang, who serves as the chief advancement and partnerships officer of the Field School. Click https://www.fpcberkeley.org/gcc-landing-page/ to learn more about the conference, speaking primarily to predominantly-white faith ccommunities to increase our commitment to the personal and collective work of racial justice in our churches and communities. #asianamericanchristiancollaborative #aacc #racialjustice #faithcommunity #complicitytocommitment #colorofcompromise #sfpresbytery #blacklivesmatter #antiracistchurch See more

Join us in listening to Dominique DuBois Gilliard at Saturday's Panel on Faith and Racial Injustice: Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of "Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores," which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard also serves as an adj...unct professor at North Park Theological Seminary and on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association. In 2015, the Huffington Post named him one of the Black Christian Leaders Changing the World. Click https://www.fpcberkeley.org/gcc-landing-page/ to learn more about the conference, speaking primarily to predominantly-white faith ccommunities to increase our commitment to the personal and collective work of racial justice in our churches and communities. #rethinkingincarceration #racialjustice #faithcommunity #complicitytocommitment #colorofcompromise #sfpresbytery #blacklivesmatter #antiracistchurch See more

Join us in listening to Alexia Salvatierra at Saturday's Panel on Faith and Racial Injustice: Rev. Dr. Alexia Salvatierra is the author with Dr. Peter Heltzel of Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World (Intervarsity Press). She is a Lutheran Pastor with over 40 years of experience in congregational (English and Spanish) and community ministry, including church-based service and community development programs, congregational/community organizin...g and legislative advocacy. She serves as Assistant Professor of Integral Mission and Transformational Development for the School of Intercultural Studies for Fuller Theological Seminary as well as Coordinator of a Professional Certificate program for Hispanic pastors and church leaders at Fuller’s Centro Latino. She coordinates the Ecumenical Collaboration for Asylum Seekers and serves on the leadership team of Matthew 25/Mateo 25 (a bipartisan Christian network to protect and defend families facing deportation in the name and spirit of Jesus.) She serves as a consultant (training, facilitating, organizing and leading strategic planning) for a variety of national/international organizations, including World Vision, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship and the Christian Community Development Association. She has been a national leader in the areas of working poverty and immigration for over 25 years, including co-founding the national Evangelical Immigration Table in 2011, the 2007 New Sanctuary Movement, the Guardian Angels project for unaccompanied migrant minors in 2014, and Matthew 25/Mateo 25 in 2016. Click https://www.fpcberkeley.org/gcc-landing-page/ to learn more about the conference, speaking primarily to predominantly-white faith ccommunities to increase our commitment to the personal and collective work of racial justice in our churches and communities. #faithrootedorganizing #racialjustice #faithcommunity #complicitytocommitment #colorofcompromise #sfpresbytery #blacklivesmatter #antiracistchurch

Next Sunday, we are excited to welcome Rev. Kamal Hassan as our guest preacher for World Communion Sunday, as well as our featured speaker for the Commitment to Racial Justice conversation that will follow the worship service. Kamal Hassan is the pastor of Sojourner Truth Presbyterian in Richmond, CA, who will be worshipping with us as our honored guests. "I firmly believe that the church must be engaged in efforts to mend the tear in our social fabric that has caused so man...y of us to focus solely on our individual needs and ignore the sufferings of others. To be true to our prophetic calling the people of God must act locally for justice, peace, and freedom, while also considering the global implications of our work. We must take seriously the urgent need to participate in the building of a new heaven and a new earth, because in a faithful and relevant church there is hope for the entire world." Click https://www.fpcberkeley.org/gcc-landing-page/ to learn more and register for the conference, speaking primarily to predominantly-white faith communities to increase our commitment to the personal and collective work of racial justice in our churches and communities. #faithfulchurch #propheticcalling #racialjustice #faithcommunity #complicitytocommitment #coclorofcompromise #sfpresbytery #blacklivesmatter #antiracistchurch

Congratulations to our dear brother, Dr. Francis Collins, recipient of the 2020 Templeton Prize! First Pres Berkeley embraces a theology of Vocational Mission: We are each and all called to fully participate in God’s redemptive story. Regardless of social or vocational contextand regardless of station or circumstancewe are each uniquely situated to be God’s agents of justice, love and redemption. In our acts of work and community, we declare our allegiance to the Risen Ch...rist. Both in word and in action, we proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is the essence of Missio Dei. There is perhaps no greater example of vocational mission than NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins. As leader of the medical science community and leader of this nation’s anti-CovID 19 effort, Dr Collins frequently uses his voice as a medical scientist and government leader to speak truth to power and, yes, proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Here, in his acceptance speech at the National Academy of Sciences, Dr Collins speaks boldly about our need to embrace truth, to return to the ancient and enduring truths of the Gospel, and to love one another. https://youtu.be/hL6Ua8nXR7Y

Meet Jemar Tisby, speaking to us the first night of the "Racial Injustice: From Complicity to Commitment" conference, along with pastor and national activist Michael McBride: Jemar (B.A. Notre Dame; MDiv RTS Jackson) an Author, Speaker, and President of The Witness: A Black Christian Collective, where he writes about race, religion, and culture. He also co-hosts the podcast "Pass The Mic," which amplifies dynamic voices for a diverse church. His writing has been featured in T...he Atlantic, the Washington Post, CNN, Vox, and the New York Times. He is the author of the New York Times Bestselling book, "The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism," which received the 2019 honors for Book of the Year from the Englewood Review of Books, and Best Religion and Spirituality Books from the Library Journal. Jemar is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Mississippi studying race, religion, and social movements in the 20th century and working with The Witness Foundation to raise $1,000,000 for an endowment to financially support the on-going work of Black Christian ministries. Click https://www.fpcberkeley.org/gcc-landing-page/ to learn more and register for the conference, speaking primarily to predominantly-white faith communities to increase our commitment to the personal and collective work of racial justice in our churches and communities. #racialjustice #faithcommunities #ComplicitytoCommitment #ColorofCompromise #SFpresbytery #BlackLivesMatter #antiracistchurch