Profile avatar
nextchurch.bsky.social
We’re a network of leaders across the Church supporting & equipping congregations, developing leaders, and strengthening connections. Radically Inclusive 🌈 Committed to Work of Antiracism ✊🏼✊🏾✊🏻 www.nextchurch.net
41 posts 451 followers 146 following
Regular Contributor
Conversation Starter

And we thought 2020 was the lentiest lent that ever lented. Go gently, friends. You are not alone. 💜

Well-meaning antiracism programs and studies aren’t moving the needle. In a time when everything feels overwhelming and dread freezes our action, the one place we can affect change is within ourselves.💜🌿

We aren't going away quietly, nor is our commitment to the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion for all people. Register for the zoom link --> bit.ly/roundtable-conversations

The stakes are too high for performativity. How are you actively curating justice and wholeness?

We’re at APCE this week and giving thanks for all the educators out there. If you are in Memphis, come by our exhibit hall table and grab our special edition educator sticker! 💕 #APCE

Thinking about how much we need community in these days. We are really looking forward to November and planning with intention. Have you saved the date for our National Gathering? 📆 nextchurch.net/2025-nationa...

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

We’ve been thinking a lot about moral courage and clarity of values when stepping into the pulpit over here. Anyone else?

It’s like we’ve lived a whole year these last three days. How’s everyone doing? 💙

Did someone say it’s National Sticker Day? Sure, we’d love to celebrate our stickers, thank you for asking. Which one is your favorite? Maybe we will send one your way, just for our new Blue Sky friends. 🥰

Oh what a year it has been! We are holding onto the memories. 🫶🏽

Merry Christmas from our crazy crew to yours! ❤️💚

We are having a National Gathering this fall. You should join us!

Hey, we did a big thing! 🎉

We cannot ‘policy’ our way into relationships Wordsmithed policy, if celebrated as an end in and of itself, is not a step on the journey toward a new way of being, says Larissa Kwong Abazia. @nextchurch.bsky.social #pcusa #AntiRacism

Today and every day, we are grateful for you. It really is better when we go together! 🩷💚

🌳 These are extraordinary times. In response, Anna Kendig Flores and @larissalka.bsky.social are creating space alongside People of Color. Together, the group will explore individual and shared stories; consider coalition building among our communities, and breathe new ways of being into reality.

A must read on racial reconciliation.

Y’all. Our parents, @pcusa.bsky.social, have entered the room. Everyone be on their best behavior.

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we grieve the lives lost because of hate and violence. We renew our commitment to stand alongside our trans siblings. You matter to us. You are loved deeply. You are a sacred, beautiful Child of God. 🩷🤍🩵 #transdayofremembrance

Clear our schedules. We’ll be tending to our wounds all day from this personal attack.

Learning is the point. 🌱 Check out our free resource--> bit.ly/Cultivated-Ministry #cultivatedministry #learning #assessment

Checking in. How’s everyone’s Sunday afternoon naps going?

👋 Hi new and old friends! We don’t know what we are doing here yet, but we know it’s better when we go together, so here we are fumbling along with you to learn a new thing!

I havent seen one yet, so i started a PCUSA starter pack. It’s tricky to remember everyone to add and my brain is aged. I’ll add anyone not there yet. Leave handles below. go.bsky.app/5DHoHC3