Holding Up Your Corner Participant Book

Holding Up Your Corner: Guided Conversations About Race is a unique, conversation-based experience that pastors facilitate for their communities. The resource includes everything pastors need to organize, host, and lead the events:

- a one- or two-day Conversation, hosted by the church, including people from the congregation and the wider community

- people from various backgrounds gather for large-group presentations and small-group discussions

- includes

multiple video Conversation Starters from pastors and others across the

US who share their own experiences, fears, and realizations about race

- face to face conversations lead to radically new understanding

- each

community determines the outcomes of their own Conversations, which may

include new relationships and ministries in the community The Promise for Participants:

Our

lives change when we sit with one another and converse. When we share

our own stories and listen to another. Real, honest, vulnerable

conversation leads to empathy. It fosters our understanding and

sharpens our convictions. It breaks down barriers and builds surprising

new relationships. Conversation leads to change.

Gather with

diverse people from your community for a series of guided conversations

that will empower you individually and together to embody God's promises

of hope and justice for all.