​The “Organizing” Part of Community Organizing

I’m so grateful to Trinity’s Greater Cleveland Congregations (GCC) Core Team for leading a campaign of one-on-one conversations to help us discern where Trinity’s passion and capacity for social justice is strongest.

These conversations are vital to the plan that we’ll be shaping over the coming years. Though it’s led by our GCC core team, we are taking a far broader approach than GCC itself: we are asking, at a very open-ended level, what you think are the greatest community social justice needs, and where the people of Trinity have the most interest and capacity to make a meaningful commitment of time and energy.

We have set April 30 as the closing date for these conversations so we can begin to shape a plan. We compiled a list of folks to call, either who have worked with GCC in the past or who we think might be interested, to make our initial conversation list. But if you would like to be a part of this and have not received a call, simply reach out to me or to the Rev. Adrienne Koch.

If you’re passionate about witness and advocacy, now’s the time to get involved, and all you have to do is have a conversation with a fellow member of Trinity about what’s on your heart. Social justice starts at the one-to-one level with meaningful conversations like this. If you’ve been contacted by a member of the GCC Core Team, I hope you’ll respond, and have a good conversation with them before the end of April.

Trinity has a long history of commitment to making Cleveland and the surrounding area a place where justice and dignity are essential parts of our life together. If we want to be impactful, we must start with the “organizing” part of community organizing: following up and following through so that we can work together to make God’s love a reality in this world. Don’t miss this chance to make your voice heard!

Faithfully,

The Very Rev. Bernard J. Owens