A Letter from Lindy

 Hi Pilgrims,
 
I am in Queens, New York as I write this letter to you. Three days into a week-long training with community organizers from around the country. I was humbled to be invited by Durham CAN Lead Organizer Ketty Thelemaque to be one of several Durham Pastors to participate in this year's IAF National Training.
 
I am joined by the Lead Pastors from Watt Street Baptist and Duke Memorial Methodist Churches, along with Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. Training Sessions include defining power, the use of power, consent, identifying community interests, broad-based organizing, and how to effect change by engaging the powers structures and systems in our community. In case you are curious, here are some of the readings we are engaging: 

• Melian Debate: Thucydides

• Importance of Being Unprincipled, John Herman Randall, Jr. 

• I’ve Got the Light of Freedom, Chapter 8, Charles Payne

• From Protest to Politics by Bayard Rustin 

• How Democracies Live: The Struggle for Equality Amid Diversity, Danielle

 Allen, Foreign Affairs September/October 2022 
 
I am excited to bring back my learning to help deepen Pilgrim’s Core Team and expand our network of engaging and organizing around the issues that confront the city of Durham as we seek to be a just community for all. God calls Pilgrim to be the hands and feet of Christ in the world, and as we participate in ushering in God's Kin-dom on Earth as it is in heaven, grateful am I for this opportunity, along with my Durham colleagues, to engage in the important faith- centric and justice-oriented work of community organizing.

grace and gratitude,
 
Pastor Lindy

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