We commit to working towards reconciliation as we follow the example of Jesus whose life and mission modeled reconciliation, peacemaking and bringing justice.“We confess that we have failed in our love and care toward our Indigenous neighbours.My own church community also made a statement of reconciliation even though the Mennonite Church in BC did not run residential schools, we too have benefited from the dispossession and marginalization of indigenous people: “We carry immense sorrow for having contributed to this tragedy,” said a member of the Catholic women religious. Marie Wilson, a member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). “Great harms were done and indeed crimes were committed,” said Dr. I had been listening hard all morning, feeling again the enormity of 150,000 aboriginal children taken away from their homes and placed in residential schools across the country - more children than there are people in the city of Abbotsford where I live - children who were taken from their families, brothers and sisters separated, forbidden to speak their language, their names replaced with numbers, too many physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually and sexually broken and abused. Last Saturday I went looking for the Sacred Fire. For BC, it was the sacred teaching on honesty. Each of the TRC National Events is dedicated to one of these teachings. Notice the TRC logo in the upper left corner which is a circle of seven flames that represent the seven sacred teachings: love, respect, courage, honesty, wisdom, humility and truth. Keep watch in the coming years for the next move of God in this organization.Photos of the Sacred Fire are not permitted, but this was a sign pointing the way. Farrow Institute for Black Preaching and Education is preparing women and men for the ministries in which God has called us. In our sacred community, our visiting professors and Circle⭕️ scholars go deeper in their understanding of black preaching, interpretation, and exegesis, womanism, transformational leadership, and more! In the Fall of 2021, we welcomed the #Brotherhood into our #community, with the Just for The Men⭕️ and our beloved undergrads in the AOPMorehouse⭕️. PhoeniX⭕️ which gathered women and men to re-imagine their preaching, ministry, and leadership gifts so they could ready themselves to soar to the next level. In 2021, Circle Nation expanded and inaugurated two NEW circles⭕️. Farrow Institute for Black Preaching and Education. Farrow has created under her non-profit, The Kelly U. Circle of SacredFire⭕️ is the first of many educational programs Dr. The “Alpha Circle” gathered a diverse population of 20 women to focus on #theCircle⭕️’s three fundamental principles: Preaching through the Black Church Context, Preaching with a Womanist Ethic, and Preacher as Person leadership development.

Farrow created and inaugurated Circle of SacredFire⭕️, a preaching intensive designed to prepare women of color in ministry in black preaching, womanism, and leadership development.

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