Please join us for our annual celebration of the holiday season with food, song, and fellowship on Sunday morning, December 7, from 9:15 - 10:30 am in the Meetinghouse community room. Please bring a breakfast dish to share and your singing voice!
The Adult Spiritual Education Committee will host a one-hour Reading Between the Lines (formerly known as Bible Workbench) on First Day, Dec. 7, from 9-10 on Zoom. We’ll discuss Matthew 3:1-12: the link between the verbs “crying out,” “preparing,” and “making” when a “new thing is being made.” The facilitator will send the zoom link through the Newslist a few days before the session.
The Racial Justice Team is planning a two-session workshop on “Learning to Have Courageous Conversations in Multi-Racial Settings.” A team from Coming Together Virginia, one of our partner organizations for 2025 and 2026, will lead the sessions on the mornings of Jan. 31 and Feb. 7 at the Meetinghouse. As RFM deepens its interaction with multi-racial groups, we strive to ensure that our communications are beneficial, not harmful.
As part of our commitment to racial justice, RFM volunteers contribute to student learning at
Richmond’s Elizabeth Redd Elementary School. The student population is 96% economically
disadvantaged and 94% minority (56.6% of the students are African American, and 34.2%
Hispanic/Latino).
The working group attached to the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy is supporting that group’s mission to influence public policy on racial equity, justice reform, economic justice and
health equity.