Civil Rights Tour
A word from Ken -
Carolyn and I are blessed to be traveling with John Williams and the travel team from the Center for Racial Reconciliation at Fellowship Church in Monrovia. This site is set up for journaling, collecting images and sharing our journey with friends and family. I'll be posting new journal entries on Facebook.
- Ken Kemp
Video Overview
This six-minute video will take you on the highlights of our tour.
Center for racial Reconciliation
Fellowship Monrovia
Watch the video (scroll down on page)
John William's Facebook Post from June 24, 2019
Yesterday morning 22 people from different walks of life, different races and different churches embarked to join the Fellowship Center for Racial Reconciliation in its annual Southern Civil Rights Tour. The 8 day journey will take us to six states and seven cities: New Orleans, LA; Jackson, MS; Little Rock, AR; Memphis, TN; Selma & Montgomery, AL; and Atlanta, GA. The biblical disciplines that we will cover are Lament, Repentance, Confession, Love, Justice, Mercy and Reconciliation.
Some may ask why? John, why take a journey into the past? Shouldn’t we just leave those things in the past? My response, our response, is no because our past informs our present and can shape our future. Bryan Stevenson, a civil rights attorney and a committed Christian, challenges us “to get proximate to suffering and to understand the nuanced experiences of those who suffer from and experience inequality. Stevenson believes that “if you are willing to get closer to people who are suffering, you will find the power to change the world.” I would add that in order for us to truly be racially reconciled we must also get “proximate” with our country’s racial history.
So…we take this 8 day journey to get proximate with what James Baldwin called the “bloody catalogue of oppression.” I invite you to journey with us by praying for our team.
John's FACEBOOK PAGE
June 23-29, 2019
Southern Civil Rights Tour 2019
At Fellowship we want to be a church that stands at the forefront and leads in the conversation on race, reconciliation and justice. One way that we do this is by taking a multiethnic, intergenerational group through the south on a Civil Rights Tour, where we aim to deepen our understanding of our history so that we can more fully understand the gospel and what it means to be a follower of Jesus. This tour has proven to be a transformative experience!
