The Gathering Experience

The Gathering creates worship experiences that address social injustice through womanist preaching and action and cultivates healing, learning, and growing fellowship for people who are churched, unchurched, de-churched, hurt by the church, and sick of church. They prioritize racial equity, LGBTQIA+ equality, and dismantling patriarchy, misogyny, and sexism.

P.R.I.D.E. Programs (Positive Racial Identity Development and Embodiment), provide safe, accessible space for Blackwomen (over 50) and girls (ages 15-21) who are cisgender and LGBTQIA+, living with HIV, survivors of sexual trauma and sexual exploitation to experience authentic dialogue, build community, reclaim their stories, and be reoriented toward a wholistic trauma informed theology. Through spiritual and theological processing groups, educational classes, reading cohorts, and mini-retreats facilitated in Harriet’s Haven located at Northway Christian Church, P.R.I.D.E. will create opportunities and experiences that facilitate the flourishing of Black women and girls.

Mission Area: Intergenerational

Grant Amount: $10,000