Our forefathers, Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, just to name a few, wanted to instill in us the meaning of unity. They wanted to tear down the barriers of racism and segregation. Christians learn and believe that God loves everyone. With that being said, I feel like any and everyone should be able to come to the church and learn together. All races, ethics, ages and genders should be able come together and learn about the word of God and Christianity. This project will attempt to bring communities and varieties of people together into the church, to bring togetherness of all people. According to David D. Ireland, in Church Diversity, he believes ”it 's a movement of God, pastors, ministry leaders, volunteers, congregants, and the community”,
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We should open our minds and our hearts will follow. The book, “The Skin You Live In”, discusses ways people can form a natural cross relationships with other races (Ireland). The author gives a few ways to do such. He lists, that we should become more comfortable with reaching across cultural and racial boundaries, develop healthy interracial friendships and help others embrace diversity. Some other ways, I think, we can begin unifying the world, are to start early with the children, by teaching them about people and not about race. We can also go out into the community and into shelters to have outreaches where all races and ages are welcome. Michael Emerson, a “peace” activist and Sociologist, is the leader of “The Multiracial Congregations Project”. He defines a multiracial congregation as one where no one racial group is more than 80% of the congregation. Using that standard, Emerson has found that only 8% of all Christian congregations in the U.S. are racially mixed to a significant degree: 2-3% of mainline Protestant congregations, 8% of other Protestant congregations, and 20% of Catholic parishes. This seems especially surprising since Jesus made an effort to cross cultural boundaries in his ministry, and Paul made Christianity the first voluntary multi-ethnic organization by insisting that Gentiles as well as Jews should be part of the growing Christian churches (Emerson). By reaching out to the community to get on one accord there is no reason why the people of the world shouldn’t bring that same togetherness back into the
We should open our minds and our hearts will follow. The book, “The Skin You Live In”, discusses ways people can form a natural cross relationships with other races (Ireland). The author gives a few ways to do such. He lists, that we should become more comfortable with reaching across cultural and racial boundaries, develop healthy interracial friendships and help others embrace diversity. Some other ways, I think, we can begin unifying the world, are to start early with the children, by teaching them about people and not about race. We can also go out into the community and into shelters to have outreaches where all races and ages are welcome. Michael Emerson, a “peace” activist and Sociologist, is the leader of “The Multiracial Congregations Project”. He defines a multiracial congregation as one where no one racial group is more than 80% of the congregation. Using that standard, Emerson has found that only 8% of all Christian congregations in the U.S. are racially mixed to a significant degree: 2-3% of mainline Protestant congregations, 8% of other Protestant congregations, and 20% of Catholic parishes. This seems especially surprising since Jesus made an effort to cross cultural boundaries in his ministry, and Paul made Christianity the first voluntary multi-ethnic organization by insisting that Gentiles as well as Jews should be part of the growing Christian churches (Emerson). By reaching out to the community to get on one accord there is no reason why the people of the world shouldn’t bring that same togetherness back into the