This update is from Curtis May, director of The Office of Reconciliation & Mediation (ORM), an independent ministry, which partners with GCI on projects of mutual interest.
ORM and its 28 chapter leaders continue to reach out to churches both inside and outside of GCI. We recently held reconciliation workshops in Portland; Vancouver: Detroit; Phoenix and Beaumont, California (where we had a particularly lively gathering). Due to the nature of our ministry, ORM works both interdenominationally and internationally.
On January 24, ORM’s editor Neil Earle interviewed the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s close friend and colleague Dr. James Massey. Dr. Massey is an accomplished scholar and author of 18 books. He formerly served as the Dean of Chapel at Tuskegee University and during the turbulent 1960s he pastored in Detroit. Dr. Massey stated emphatically that people “must know that we are one, then the commitment to fix our experiment in democracy will surely follow.” For a full report on this interview, click here.
I invite you to learn more about ORM at atimetireconcile.org where you will find upcoming ORM events, information about ORM local chapters and ideas for celebrating Black History Month.
