Pittsburgh FRIENDS is 'n akroniem wat ons 'n prentjie gee van wat dit werklik beteken om 'n ware vriend te wees. Ons is 'n First Responders-inisiatief wat verseker dat ons buurman se diversiteit standhou.
Ons is 'n multikulturele verteenwoordiging van stemme in ons gemeenskap uit verskeie politieke, rasse- en kulturele identiteite met 'n fokus op die bou van die Koninkryk van God deur idees uit te ruil en hulpbronne te deel.
Opsetlike en moedige gesprekke beïnvloed ons harte en gedagtes deur betekenisvolle dialoog te skep tussen diegene in verskillende gemeenskappe. Gesonde gesprekke help om politieke gapings, rassegapings, teologiese gapings en aktiwiteitsgapings te oorbrug.
Werklik outentieke verhoudings is die raamwerk om die rasseskeiding te oorbrug. Ons bou brûe tussen kulture, kerke en gemeenskappe met die Here Jesus Christus in die middel. Ons sterk outentieke verhoudings bind ons saam as een.
Om ware diversiteit te bring en aan ons stad te behoort is harde werk en vereis aktiewe deelname. Ons werk om mekaar te verstaan en by te staan. Ons vier ook fees en geniet die lewe saam met mekaar.
SPESIALITEIT MOEDIGE GESPREKKE / DIALOOGGROEPE
Die GRACISM-taakspanspanne is toegewy aan die skep van veilige ruimtes om mure van verdeeldheid af te breek deur middel van opvoeding, gesprek en genesing.
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simply to be friends and to pray together. Usually this means walking across the street. If we don’t find a way to be friends and to love each other, then any notion of unity for one churchness simply won’t work. Everyone must move out of their comfort zone and grab someone else’s hand!
We have to have ONE heart and ONE mind. We have to be fitly joined together—with an intolerance for division among us– the Church. We must take out “self” - such as my church, my ministry, my members – and let us truly be The Lord’s Church!
- although in many buildings! We are THE CHURCH. The church is organic and is like a jewel – seen through different expressions in the community. The key is that Christ must be the center of it all because it’s His light that shines bright!
We are better together means laying aside our prejudices and preferences to join hands across our racial and cultural diversity to serve the common good in our cities’ neighborhoods, where our diverse identities do not disappear but bow to the cross of Christ that runs through every relationship.
to become more ONE. And while there are many paths to fulfill the dream of Jesus, the preeminent step we must all take is to trust in, respond to and embrace the presence of God’s Spirit with us always. Divine Providence reminds us that what we do we must do in the name of our God, for His honor and glory and in response to His grace and power working in and through us