Anti-racism event Sunday aims to spark conversation among church congregants
The Ohio Council of Churches, a Columbus-based ecumenical group of 17 Christian denominations statewide, is hosting an anti-racism event Sunday.
The virtual, prerecorded worship experience will be available on Facebook Live at 3 p.m.
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The Rev. Renee Wormack-Keels will host the service, which the council said will support Christians and other faith communities in the state in “demonstrating God’s love and vision of unity and justice.”
The council said in a release on the topic that congregations and other organizations can participate by designing their own service for the occasion; offering resources for members so they can understand God’s call to respond to racism; planning youth activities; and ringing their bell at 3 p.m.
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The council hosted the first Anti-racism Sunday event two years ago, Wormack-Keels said, and she hopes the service this year will spark conversations on racism. It can be difficult to have conversations about race, but congregations can do it, she said, especially with the help of resources like those available on the Ohio Council of Churches’ website.
“If you look historically, churches have been at the forefront of social justice movements starting with the civil rights movement,” Wormack-Keels said. “The civil rights movement came out of the Black Church. Churches have been at the forefront of standing up and standing out against the issue of racism.”
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