January 17-19, 2020
"Crossing Color Lines: From Exclusion to Belonging in our Divided Urban World"
with Professor David Leong of Seattle Pacific University (read bio here)
As part of our all-church effort to engage with our surrounding community, we are delighted to announce that our 2020 Meekhof lecturer will be Dr. David Leong. His expertise is in encouraging churches to cross lines of race, class and culture and to envision a future of belonging and hope.
Despite the technology boom and rapid economic growth of cities like Seattle, we are in many ways more segregated by race and class than we have ever been before. Some of these divisions are obvious, while many others remain below the surface of what we notice in our daily routines. In the midst of significant demographic and cultural shifts around us, what does the local church have to offer a world where the social logic of homogeneity tends to pull us into comfortable clusters of sameness? Together we will explore the history of urban-suburban divides in housing and education, and also reflect on the possibilities of cultivating communities where Christian imagination moves us toward our neighbors in faith, hope and love.
Friday, Jan. 17 7:30-9:00 p.m. Lecture - "Patterns of Exclusion: How Cities have Divided Us from One Another"
Saturday, Jan. 18 9:30-11:00 a.m. Lecture - "Communities of Belonging: The Possibilities of Transgressing Boundaries"
Sunday, Jan. 19 8:45 a.m. Adult class - "No Community without Proximity: Place and Hospitality in the Local Church"
10:00 a.m. Worship/Sermon - “A Peculiar People: The Strangeness of Christian Community"
You are welcome to get more information about the Meekhof Lecture series here.