The National Day of Racial Healing is being celebrated by the ELCA on January 21, 2025. We are thrilled to be partners in this important online event as we work towards building a community, church, and world that celebrates all of its children without caveats or exceptions. 

What is the National Day of Racial Healing?

Hosted by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), the National Day of Racial Healing builds on the work of the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation community partners, who champion the knowledge that to have racial equity, one must first have racial healing.

 

• “Racial healing is the experience shared by people when they speak openly and hear the truth about past wrongs and the negative impacts created by individual and systemic racism. Racial healing helps to build trust among people and restores communities to wholeness, so they can work together on changing current systems and structures so that they affirm the inherent value of all people.” 
• “Racial equity is the condition where people of all races and ethnicities can live in a society where a person’s racial identity does not determine how they are treated nor predict life outcomes. Achieving racial equity requires both systems transformation and racial healing” 

The ELCA is focusing its day in two areas: raising awareness of the need for racial healing and inspiring collective action to build common ground for a more just and equitable ELCA and world. The day will feature presentations and panels that center the voices of ELCA leaders of color.

When is it? Tuesday, January 21, 2025 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m CST. 

Who is invited? This event is open to ELCA rostered ministers, lay leaders and members of all ELCA synods, congregations, colleges, universities, seminaries, separately incorporated ministries and antiracism teams, as well as the church’s affiliate organizations and ecumenical and inter-religious partners. 

Where is it? This event will be held virtually.

How do you sign up? We're so glad you asked! To register, just click the link below and sign up on the ELCA website. This event is COMPLETELY FREE to registrants.

Register now!

To support early registration for this historic event, Augsburg Fortress is excited to announce 4 drawings to those who register by a certain date. Winners will be notified via their email used at registration. Only three left! Register now!

• Congratulations to Pastor Christina in Ohio on winning the Joe Davis 5-pack which includes Remind Me Again and Facilitator Guide, Unearthing Us and Facilitator Guide, and We Rise Higher.
• If you register by January 3, you will be entered to win the Kids’ Book Collection which includes God’s Holy Darkness, If My Hair Had a Voice, Lupita’s Brown Ballet Slippers, Mother God, and Brown Boys Rule.
• If you register by January 10, you will be entered to win the Mouth House Trio which includes Call to Allyship, Ashes to Action, and See Me, Believe Me. 
• If you register by January 17, you will be entered to win the MLK Jr mini collection which includes Strength to Love, 30-Day Journey with MLK Jr., Coretta: The Story of Coretta Scott King: Commemorative Edition, and Black Power and the American Myth 50th Anniversary Edition.

 

 

 

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