At our Black History Month celebration last year, in a moving and memorable section entitled ‘Pioneers,’ elder members of St Edmund’s who had migrated to the UK retold their experiences. The word Resilience came through, as when faced with adversity they did not give up.
So on the last weekend of October this year, ‘resilience’ became the focus, as people were encouraged to consider what this word meant to them. The Saturday had an art focus, with artists, schools and the local community creating a word wall and their own drawings. Then on the Sunday, the community art was displayed around the whole church (bedecked with handmade flags of the nations and regions of the congregation’s members). Phillis Njuguna (one of our diocese’s Racial Justice advocates) joined to share her insights on diversity, inclusion and resilience.
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