The ELCA’s Truth & Healing Movement is an opportunity for this church to increase our understanding of our colonizing impacts on Indigenous people in the past and present. There will be opportunities to learn, raise awareness and engage in other ways to impact hearts and lives across this church. We believe that the truth, and our knowing and embracing it, is the first step toward healing for all of us.
At the gathering of Sunday morning worship, we will be offering a land acknowledgement as part of our welcome.
“We acknowledge the presence of God having existed before this region’s conquest in ages past, on land once belonging to the Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Tonkawa and Jumanos peoples; land where we now live, move, and have our being, striving to honor the land and lifting up histories beyond our own.”