Reconciliation Offering

Repairers of the Breach

“…you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of the streets to live in.” Isaiah 58:12 NRSV

Your financial gift to Reconciliation Ministry repairs the breaches that keep us apart. Your gift provides financial, educational, and experiential opportunities to combat the sin of racism and oppression toward restoring God’s limitless love.

The group had come to serve a small community of the South Side of Chicago by helping remove trash in open spaces. They came ready to work; they also came to learn about the convergence of economic, environmental, and racial justice in this area which houses over 50 landfills.

Decades of unregulated toxic waste dumping in this community made it the birthplace of the environmental justice movement. On this day the group sat at the feet of environmental justice advocates, listening to stories of how their activism resulted in successfully ending the practice of toxic waste dumping in their community.

The group was able to participate in this service-learning opportunity thorough a grant from Reconciliation Ministry. The group is committed to apply what they learned in their home communities, to become “repairers of the breach”; restorers of the streets where they and their neighbors reside.

Through your generous giving, we support the Church’s effort to share the liberating love of Jesus Christ. Reconciliation Ministry partners with each expression of the Church to strengthen our congregations for mission and to restore wholeness in a fragmented world.