RMN board member Mary Gladstone-Highland shares insights about the evolution of Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN) to promote intersectional justice , the important role of Reconciling Congregations to support welcoming and inclusion, and what that means to her own congregation of Dearborn First UMC.

Four profiles of activists fighting for race equality in health care, commerce, environment, and historic identity, representing only a fraction of the countless Black individuals fighting for equality throughout our nation’s history.

Motor City Wesley, brings community, creativity and conspiracy to Lent, impacting lives of college students and young adults while striving to bring goodness to the community in which it serves.

These profiles of poets, composers, world leaders, abolitionists, and activists is only a symbolic fraction of the countless achievements of Black individuals throughout history.

John Wesley’s Covenant Prayer helps us renew our commitment to God. Dearborn First UMC’s Covenant helps us to live it out.

Each day our Dearborn First Youth and their adult counselors will have the opportunity to serve alongside Detroit neighbors on projects of economic, environmental and community justice. Each afternoon Motown Mission staff will help our team reflect theologically on issues like poverty, injustice, resiliency and beloved community. Each evening our team will return to their homes for COVID-safe accommodations.

Dearborn First UMC is a long-time supporter of JFON-Michigan, providing free, immigration legal services to those in need. Read how JFON continues to stand with immigrants, despite the pandemic.

How to reconcile race relations? That’s a question Dearborn First UMC will seek to answer in 2021 - one step at a time. This edition covers Step 3: Normalization.

Our church regularly asks young people to take the faith of their childhood and make it their own through Confirmation. $100 projects might be another way that we can take Confirmation to new levels.

As we come upon Black History Month, self-education is an important next-step to reconciling our understanding of, and approach to race.

Renovation at Dearborn First UMC is underway to better equip spaces for ministry.

How to reconcile race relations? That’s a question Dearborn First UMC will seek to answer in 2021 - one step at a time.