Wildewood Christian Church in collaboration with the Oklahoma Disciples Foundation Inc. would like to invite you and your youth congregants to participate in a one day symposium at Wildewood Christian Church for 9th-12th graders entitled: Removing the Walls Together: A Racial Healing Symposium.

Each week brings more unsettling news stories about race relations in our country. Recent high profile racial incidents justify a great need for faith based racial healing throughout the country and we believe youth groups in the Christian church and area schools can bring a fresh perspective and response to this conversation. We can undertake this healing process collectively as we acknowledge the truth of past wrongs and yet build new, authentic relationships capable of transforming our communities and shifting our national discourse.

During this one day activity, the interracial youth participants will:

  • Discuss current news events and watch a short film on diversity
  • In a safe environment, we will delve more deeply into the youth’s personal experiences with race in their schools, in their homes etc. and discuss what they can do; through the love of Jesus Christ to challenge and change these inequities.
  • Anonymously document the proceedings for distribution throughout the faith based community.

We are preparing for 30 youth; therefore, please let us know as soon as possible if you would like to participate in this extraordinary event. Please call 405-478-0781 or e-mail [email protected] for registration.

  • Event: Removing the Walls Together: An Interracial Youth Reconciliation/Racial Healing Symposium
  • Date: Saturday, September 28, 2019
  • Time: 10:00a.m. – 1:00p.m.
  • Place: Wildewood Christian Church, 6900 N. Kelley Avenue, OKC 73111

Large Conference Room – Lunch and T-Shirts provided

Our mantra: “All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, And gave us the ministry of reconciliation: God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And He has committed us to the message of reconciliation.”- The Apostle Paul, II Corinthians 5:18-19 (NIV)

Rev. Dwayne Rodgers
Senior Pastor