Opening & Welcome

  • You are safe here
  • Invitation to be present and breathe

Reflection (with background music)

  • The Kingdom is Yours (Common Hymnal)
  • Daughters of Zion (Porter’s Gate)
  • I need you to Survive (Hezekiah Walker)

Breathing Exercise

Opening Prayer (written by Erina Kim-Eubanks)

May the Spirit who is Breath 
Fill our lungs with the air of new life
So that all God's children can breathe without violence and fear.
May the Spirit who comes with fire
Burn down institutions propped up by evil and oppression
And set our hearts ablaze with God's justice and righteousness.
My the Spirit who brings new utterances
Empower our voices to speak, pray, and protest
In ways that usher in heaven, and troubles the masses.  
May the Spirit who shakes the earth
Rattle our world
So that we cannot go back to life as we knew it.
May God's Spirit fill us
Empower us
And amaze us this day,
As witnesses to the coming of a new world
And the birth of a new humanity.
Amen.

Introductions

  • Share name, pronouns, location
  • What kind of nerd are you?

Discussion Questions

  • What do you need to say or process today? How can we hold space for you?
  • How are you feeling?
  • Reading a poem by Lauren Ileana Sotolongo
  • What do you need? From us? In general?

Communion

Matthew 26:26-28

Concluding Prayer

Isaiah 58:6-12 (NLT)