Faith Voices on Racism

How Can a Congregation Come to Terms with the racism of its past? Everyone is invited to a very special Zoom meeting with Rev. Dr. Donna Claycomb Sokol, sponsored by Missouri Faith Voices and Campbell’s Faith and Race Task Force. Rev. Dr. Claycomb Sokol is the senior pastor of Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church in Washington, DC. She led her congregation through a very meaningful process of wrestling with the racism of its past, culminating in a special service of repentance. To find out more about her congregation’s story, and what Campbell and Springfield can learn from it, please join the Zoom meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 29, on Zoom. Go to
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8497341195?pwd=UlFsZW5PazZleTkwUC91YjJDQWIydz09 

A Wesleyan Online Presence

Social media can be a place to share our faith while also finding likeminded persons who encourage us in our lives. Navigating these spaces, however, takes care and intention. Though he predated social media, John Wesley may have given us the simplest directive for how to interact on social media. “As Methodists, we know the rules: Do no harm, do good, communicate grace,” the Rev. Ryan Dunn, minister of online engagement for United Methodist Communications. reminds us. “If you do that, you’re fine.” View a video from United Methodist Communications on being mindful about social media interaction at https://www.umc.org/en/content/social-media-take-a-cue-from-john-wesley.