Pursuing God's Justice, Enacting God's kingdom
In this episode, Jeanine Winfrey shares her own immigration story from Vietnam and how it fuels her work. Jeanine represents DACA clients and people seeking asylum in the US. She discusses the intersection and challenges of her immigration work, and her faith hope for the …
For our Vineyard congregation on the south side of Chicago, we recognize the many effects of generational poverty in our larger community which have been perpetuated through years of unjust systems that exploit the poor from so many heart-breaking angles.
By Stacie Seaman Introduction: Engaging sex trafficking is the work of the church regardless of size and location. However, it is a justice issue that often appears daunting or distant from the small, rural church. It feels like sex trafficking is an issue better suited …
THEOLOGY AND WORSHIP A worship leader and professor of Old Testament, Dr. Beth Stovell says that caring for the poor and marginalized, ending poverty is not something on the periphery of what we do as Christians. Rather, it’s deeply woven into how scripture imagines worship. …
Session 4: Dismantling Barriers in Our Churches: Ethnic, Cultural and Socio/Economic, Beth Wood and Panel Beth Wood shares her approach to naming and dismantling the barriers that create “otherness” in our churches. She incorporates wisdom from her work with NAIITS, an Indigenous Learning Community. Recorded …