Faith-in-Action is a youth ministry project that focuses on the formational concerns of African American, Native American, and Latinx youth on the margins of the United Methodist Church experience. 

Our program brings visibility to communal and formational exigencies that vary across context by empowering youth (ages 13-17) to organize and facilitate dialogue and civic engagement initiatives cross culturally. 

Our youth leaders and mentors will explore commemorative sites of faith and social justice from the Civil Rights Era in Atlanta, Alabama, North Carolina, and Washington DC. They will be given the opportunity to participate in transformational leadership workshops hosted by the Racial Justice and Healing Academy.  They will gain hands on experience planning, organizing, and sustaining racial equity work in the United Methodist Church. 

Faith-in-Action will recruit and train 6 mentors from Gammon Seminary School and Candler School of Theology. 

Minimum criteria for recruitment: 

• Must be a Seminarian 

• Must have a 2.7 GPA or higher

• Must have an established history of volunteer service work or community activism 

• Must be able to commit to three overnight trips and a minimum of 18 service hours per month

Itinerary 

• Montgomery Alabama (February 18)

• Birmingham and Selma Alabama SCLC Civil Rights Heritage Tour (March 4-5)

• Methodist College Crawl: Clark University, Morris Brown, Emory (April 4-6)

• Spring Pow-Wow Conference of Native American Ministries (Date TBD)

• National Center for Civil and Human Right; MLK Jr. Civil Rights Walk Tour (May 20)
  

• Civil Rights March for Economic Dignity (May 27)

• Greensboro North Carolina June 24-25

• Washington DC July 27-29