Full Name
Colleen Bernu
Job Title
Blanket Exercise Team Facilitator
Company
Together Here Ministries
Speaker Bio
Blanket Exercise/Together Here Ministries Bio/Description
Together Here Ministries creates space for transformational change by engaging in learning, listening, and relationship building between diverse people groups and communities within the Northeast Minnesota ELCA Synod. Together Here prepares our synod to walk with our racialized and marginalized neighbors in a process of learning, listening, and relationship building grounded in truth-telling and the reconciling love of Christ so that transformational change and healing can occur. Together Here consists of the Advisory Board and two ministry teams: The Bridge Building Task Force and the Racial Justice Team.
The Bridge Building Task Force was created in response to the Northeastern Minnesota Synod Resolution 17.1, our synod’s commitment to partner with our Ojibwe neighbors as we repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery. The Racial Justice Team was formed in 2020 as a Bishop’s initiative in response to the needs for social reform. The work of the Racial Justice Team is guided by the ELCA’s Strategy Toward Authentic Diversity adopted in 2019 by the Churchwide Assembly.
Together Here is committed to engaging in the ministry of mutual accompaniment through a process of learning and listening as we build authentic relationships between members of our congregations and members of Native American communities.Together Here is dedicated to forming resources and new ministry partnerships in order to allow for the process of truth-telling, listening, and healing between communities to occur.
Together Here Ministries creates space for transformational change by engaging in learning, listening, and relationship building between diverse people groups and communities within the Northeast Minnesota ELCA Synod. Together Here prepares our synod to walk with our racialized and marginalized neighbors in a process of learning, listening, and relationship building grounded in truth-telling and the reconciling love of Christ so that transformational change and healing can occur. Together Here consists of the Advisory Board and two ministry teams: The Bridge Building Task Force and the Racial Justice Team.
The Bridge Building Task Force was created in response to the Northeastern Minnesota Synod Resolution 17.1, our synod’s commitment to partner with our Ojibwe neighbors as we repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery. The Racial Justice Team was formed in 2020 as a Bishop’s initiative in response to the needs for social reform. The work of the Racial Justice Team is guided by the ELCA’s Strategy Toward Authentic Diversity adopted in 2019 by the Churchwide Assembly.
Together Here is committed to engaging in the ministry of mutual accompaniment through a process of learning and listening as we build authentic relationships between members of our congregations and members of Native American communities.Together Here is dedicated to forming resources and new ministry partnerships in order to allow for the process of truth-telling, listening, and healing between communities to occur.
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