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RECONCILIATION MINISTRIES
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Regional Reconciliation Grants
The Reconciliation Committee of Northern California-Nevada provides grants to congregations seeking to empower marginalized communities or foster relationships with marginalized communities. In this way, we hope to help the congregations of this region live out Jesus' first public act of ministry when (Luke 4:17-19): He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." We receive grants in February and June. The following is the link for grant applications: Grant Application.pdf
Lodi United Congregational Church blessing their new community garden on April 22, 2010, thanks to a regional Reconciliation Grant. (The garden is known as the Garden of EDEN: Everyone Deserves Enough Nourishment.)
Please watch the following video to learn about one of our recent reconciliation grant projects--translation equipment for broader participation in region-wide events: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwd74hCg51I
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Award
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Each year, the CCNC-N recognizes the great achievements for justice that have been contributed by Disciples in this region. The people who win the award (by nomination) exemplify the qualities of Dr. King.
Document to nominate a person for the MLK Award
Ben Fraticelli, recieving the 2010 MLK Award. Picture courtesy Cindy Fields. |
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In addition to the MLK Award, our region's reconciliation also gives out an annual MLK scholarship to a college student from the region who exhibits a commitment to living out Dr. King's legacy in their lives and in their communities. The application deadline is in October. Follow this link for the MLK Scholarship Awards Application.
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2010 MLK Scholarship Recipients: Daniel Fields and Robin Stiles receiving their scholarships at the January 2010 MLK Worship hosted by Raynor Park Christian Church.
Previous Award Winners are:
- 2007: Robert Lemon, who gave his life's ministry to justice, including the migrant farm workers' movement with Cesar Chavez, even when his commitment to justice cost him his church.
- 2008: Sandy Perry, who in partnership with new Disciples church Community Homeless Alliance Ministries and First Christian Church of San Jose continues to march and speak and write and coordinate mass actions for justice in the South Bay.
- 2009: Carl and Esther Robinson, who have worked for justice for migrant farm workers and all those on the margins, including GLBT people, even when it cost them their church.
- 2010: Ben and Marianne Fraticelli, whose lives of Reconciliation and Racial Justice span 4 decades and three countries including work to empower Urban youth in Oakland, farm workers in the Central Valley, and youth throughout the CCNC-N.
The Disciples 20/20 Vision and Reconciliation
The Christian Church of Northern California-Nevada recognizes that God calls us to embrace the diversity of the world around us! Likewise, we recognize that in the course of our church's history, we have fallen short of that call, and that the sin of racism and other forms of oppression keep us from being in full relationship with our God. For that reason, the CCNC-N has embraced the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)'s 2020 Vision to become an anti-racist, anti-oppressive, pro-reconciling church by the year 2020! Below is information on the ways we're striving to achieve this dream of God's realm on earth.
Reconciliation Team Members:
Don Carter, Pastor, Antioch Christian Church (co-chair)
Jan Warren, Lafayette Christian Church (co-chair)
Vy Nguyen, Church World Service Asst. Regional Director for
Northern CA-NV and Arizona, First Christian Church Oakland
Leon Baccheus, Pastor, Health & Human Services/Outreach,
Tapestry Ministries of Berkeley
Sandy Perry, Outreach Minister at CHAM Deliverance Ministry
Neal Kentch, Pastor, Cottage Way Christian Church in Sacramento
Paul Gaffney, Chaplain, Marin Interfaith Council
Inquiries can be directed to Sandhya Jha, sandhya@ccncn.org,
Minister of Transformation and Reconciliation for CCNC-N
Regional Reconciliation Committee. From left to right: Paul Gaffney, Don Carter,
Neal Kentch, Jan Warren, Sandy Perry, Leon Bacchues, and Vy Nguyen.
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