A year ago, Sima Al Ghawaly, The Ministry Project Coordinator at St Joseph’s Center in Bethlehem, Occupied Palestinian Territories, wrote these words of gratitude for our support of the Humanitarian Relief project we continue to support today.

Therefore, be it resolved, that the General Conference of The United Methodist Church be called to repentance for its implicit and explicit participation and profit gained by slavery of African Americans in the United States.

Last month, three United Methodist Churches worked across racial and District (geographic) lines to demonstrate the transformative power of building Beloved Community through a forum on Faith and Reparations. The collaboration by Buena Vista UMC (a historically Japanese-American church in Alameda), Easter Hill UMC (a historically Black church in Richmond), and Epworth UMC (an intentionally multiracial church in a historically racially exclusive white neighborhood in Berkeley)

On Saturday, May 17th, Epworth will join with Easter Hill [in Richmond] and Buena Vista United Methodist Church [in Alameda] to host a groun