This Sunday is one of my favorites on the Christian calendar. It's called "Pentecost Sunday." It's the day where Christians commemorate the move of God's Spirit to empower the followers of Jesus after his crucifixion. I must confess that I've always loved Pentecost Sunday because it's a time where extra emphasis is placed on churches to get outside of its walls and do something for the holistic salvation of its community.
I used to get frustrated sitting on the pews Sunday after Sunday hearing about an all powerful God and then walking out into the neighborhood after worship services to see the effects of a community that was oppressed by the powers of this world. "Can't the church do something about this?," I'd often ask myself.
This is one of the reasons why I love serving in The Black Church Food Security Network. We are actually doing something about food apartheid. We're doing something about a century of systematic oppression toward Black farmers. We're doing something about the massive land-holdings and assets of churches that are sitting underutilized from Monday to Saturday.
And the beautiful thing is that we're not doing it alone.
We're doing it with so many of you!
If you work alongside or support The Black Church Food Security Network, you should know that you are a part of something big and beautiful. In our newsletters from month to month, we show the "the Pentecost power" of God at work in every day people all over the country. Together, we are standing in our power to confront a system that keeps people hungry and build a new system that centers the needs of people and the planet too.
May we all continue to experience Pentecost power in our time as we work together through the ministry of The Black Church Food Security Network.
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