Anti-RacisT

Action Plan Commitment

PRAYER

Possibilities for action steps include:

  • Participate in prayer walks and prayer vigils in both communities.

  • Pray for the concerns of the African American community regularly.

  • Invite your cross-cultural partner to become a prayer partner.

  • Invite your partner to special prayer events being held at your church.

  • Invite your small group to pray for bridging the racial divide.

Building relationships

Possibilities for action steps include:

  • Attend a African American worship service.

  • Have lunch with your partner in their community.

  • Advocate for dual membership with your partnering church.

  • Discuss the learning you’ve been doing on race with your partner.

  • Introduce and spend quality time with your partner and your family members. Plan an activity together on a regular basis.

Learn & proximate

Action steps include:

  • Read The New Jim Crow, The Color of Compromise, I Bring the Voices of My People or Divided By Faith.

  • Watch “Just mercy,” “13th, “”I am Not Your Negro, “ or “When They See Us.”

  • Host movie nights or book clubs around the above selection or others.

  • Participate in a local or national virtual JustUS Conversations.

  • Race & Grace Monday Prayer Initiative with 24/7 Prayer Network.

  • Hold a service to lament for complicit participation in radically unjust systems.

Financial redistribution

Possibilities for action steps include:

  • Patron African American-owned businesses and restaurants.

  • Sponsor and/or support a charity event for a Black nonprofit.

  • Become a financial supporter of an African American-led nonprofit.

  • Give to a justice fund that will receive ongoing donations.

  • Support a teacher financially in an under-resourced school district.

Advocate for racial justice

Possibilities for action steps include:

  • Attend aN African American worship service.

  • Have lunch with your partner in their community.

  • Advocate for dual membership with your partnering church.

  • Discuss the learning you’ve been doing on race with your partner.

  • Introduce and spend quality time with your partner and your family members. Plan an activity together on a regular basis.

Organize & Mobilize

Action steps include:

  • Actively participate in Urban Education and Housing Reform Initiatives.

  • Seek out Policy Champions in your geographical location seeking systemic and structural institutional transformation. (Ex: Social Change: https://socialchange.site)

  • Join and participate in organizing meetings lead by community groups in your city.

  • Attend community organizing training.

  • JustBUSINESS: Empowering the Church to generate racial equity in employment by leveraging the social capital within churches and establishing new networks of connection between churches or different races.

FOr additional information, please contact:

Rev. J.D. Ward | Co-founder

Email: jdward@rewireteam.org

Phone: 650-814-3503