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Northeast United Methodist Church

6 days ago

Good morning!

We hope this email finds you cozy and warm! We hope you join us for worship at 10:15am this morning. We will be processing the events of the week and reflecting on how we can follow Jesus through healing the wounds of white supremacy through becoming a community of transformation.

We are still worshipping online or by phone only. Please join us by following the steps below:

Join online:
1) Anytime after 10:00am, click here: us02web.zoom.us/j/863764547
2) Enter Meeting ID: 863 764 547
3) You will be placed in a Waiting Room until the Worship host is ready.
4) A password should not be required. If that changes last minute, you will receive a text and email with the password.
5) Worship will begin at 10:15am.

Join by phone:
**This is not a toll free number, so please call from a phone that is able to call distance as part of your plan. Otherwise, please reply to this email and we will figure out another way for you to connect!
1) Anytime after 10:00am, call: 1-312-626-6799
2) Enter Meeting ID: 863 764 547
3) You will be placed in a Waiting Room until the Worship host is ready.
4) Please click mute on your phone.
5) Worship will begin at 10:15am.

We look forward to worshiping with you soon! You are so loved, and we are praying for you! ...

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Northeast United Methodist Church

1 week ago

Beloved church family,

Two days ago, we witnessed yet another cry of white rage, misogyny, domestic terrorism, and white supremacy. It was unopposed, even after the organizers and inciters were very clear about their aims days in advance. Most participants have still not been arrested and asked to account for their actions. This is a stark and disgraceful contrast to the mass arrests and swift and violent response of police to BIPOC protesters in cities all over the United States - including our own.

As we continue to bear together the trauma of this latest act of terrorism, we want to give voice to our church's continued commitment to you and to our community:

White supremacy is largely a creation birthed from the darkest impulses of Christianity. It is our faith tradition that conceived it, and it is our responsibility as white Jesus followers to end it. Let us cultivate resilience and courage to not see Wednesday’s insurrectionists as wholly different from us, but as expressions of what is deeply rooted in all of us. At Northeast UMC, we will continue to work towards being a community that transforms people into disciples of Christ who have the capacity and courage to create a culture that works to abolish white supremacy. It first starts with being able to acknowledge and listen to our bodies and hearts, and it cannot be done in isolation - this work requires community. We hope you join us on Sunday as we consider what that looks like.

Most importantly, to help you process this trauma and pray about how to go forward, we leave you with the prophetic resistance of BIPOC voices:

How are you processing the violence in D.C. that unfolded Wednesday? - MPR News episode with Resmaa Menakem, BraVada Garrett-Akinsanya, and Qorsho Hassan (listen at mprnews.org)

“...things are not getting worse
they are getting uncovered
we must hold each other tight
and continue to pull back the veil
See: we, the body, we are the wounded place…

...we are our only relevant hope
we are our only possible medicine

a body is always a body
wounded, festering, healing, healed
we choose each day what body we will shape
with the miraculous material we’re gifted
let us, finally, attend to the wound
let us, finally, name the violence
let us finally, break the cycle of supremacy
let us, finally, choose ourselves whole
let us, finally, love ourselves
whole.” - adrienne maree brown (full poem here)

From Stacey Abrams on 1/6/21: “While today’s terrible display of terror and meanness shakes us, let’s remember: @ossoff, Jewish son of an immigrant & @ReverendWarnock, first Black Senator from Georgia, will join a Catholic POTUS & the first woman, Black + Indian VP in our nation’s capital. God bless America.”

From Senator-Elect Rev. Warnock’s victory speech: “... In the words of Dr. King who grew up just a few blocks from where I’m sitting right now, 'We are tied in a single garment of destiny. We are caught up in an inescapable network of mutuality. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.’ I remember my dad, in this moment. He used to wake me up every morning at dawn. It was morning, but it was still dark. It’s dark right now. But morning comes and Scripture tells us that weeping may endure for the night, the joy comes in the morning. Let us rise up. Greet the morning and meet the challenges of this moment. Together we can do the necessary work and win the future for all of our children.”

As we at Northeast UMC face these coming days with fear and hope, we would like to leave you the words of black liturgist Cole Arthur Riley (instagram.com/blackliturgies). She prays:

“God who remembers,
They think we will forget. We cannot. Thank you for being a God who keeps account of every evil thing. A God who calls us toward habits of memory for both death and liberation. Forgive us for how we've discarded and diminished the evils of the past as some fractured end note in the book of American glory. Help us to remember all that made us, that the beneficiaries of injustice and exclusions would look in the mirror and be unable to perceive their reflection apart from those dark histories that have placed them in front of that particular mirror in that particular neighborhood. Help us to remember those ancestors from whom this land was taken and those whose backs were broken to build up a fortune and society that would never embrace them. How long will the arms of death and injustice see themselves as heroes? It seems that whiteness alone can never be trusted to tell its own story. Have mercy and hand us the pen.”

Yours in grace,

Pastor Trevor Maine & Pastor Leah Challberg ...