UCC 360 Anti-Racism Program

ANTI-RACISM SAVE THE DATES:

• Have you engaged in previous anti-racism or racial justice training?
• Are you ready to take your antiracism education a bit deeper, within a United Church context?

If you answered yes to both questions, this may be for you:

UCC 360 Anti-Racism Program

with antiracism educator Rev Alcris Limongi

An in-depth 4.5 hour course offered over three weeks,

sponsored by the tri-regional councils of Antler River Watershed (ARW), Horseshoe Falls (HF) and Western Ontario Waterways (WOW).

Save all three dates for this workshop with facilitator Rev. Alcris Limongi:

Wednesdays Feb 26, March 5 and March 12, 2025 @ 6:00-7:30 PM Eastern

Session I: A 360 View of the United Church of Canada

Session II: A 360 View of your immediate context (your church or regional council context)

Session III: A 360 View of Yourself, and developing your Antiracist Personal Purpose (APP)

This is a three-session program, so plan to attend all three dates. If you have to miss a session a recording of the session will be available, but will not include breakout discussions.

Bio: Rev. Alcris Limongi

The Rev. Alcris Limongi was born in Venezuela and has been a member of the United Church of Canada since 1996. She has served the Church in different capacities. She was a Th.D. candidate in NT at Emmanuel College and the Racial Justice, Gender Justice and Sexual Minorities Program Coordinator at the General Council Office. She also was the Liaison to the UCW National and to Affirm United. She was the staff lead for the GC40 Commitment to Inclusion, and has served as facilitator of the UC Racial Justice Mandatory training since 2009. As an Ordained Minister she served at Parkdale United Church in Ottawa for five years and currently is part of the Center for Christian Studies in Winnipeg staff team as Program/Educator.

She offers both experience and perspective from our national denomination structures a well from a local-congregational community and based ministries.

Rev. Alcris trained in Courageous Conversations about Race with the Pacific Educational Group. The focus has been identifying systemic racism and racial differential gaps, as well as facilitating Courageous Conversations.

Her own identity as a racialized woman in Canada, her life experience between marginality and privilege in different ways, combined with a sound theological education, and personal and theological commitment to justice, have helped her develop a particular lens, what she calls “the gift of her brown eyes” to the Church. Her passion is to encourage racial majority and minorities to engage together identifying, naming, interrogating, interrupting and dismantling racism. She is a teacher/preacher/facilitator with creativity, flexibility, and openness to respectfully listen and learn from cultural differences. She adds “English is not my native language, which is both strength and weakness. It is a strength because with language I also bring different perspectives of defining and understanding reality”.

This is not an introduction to anti-racism, but is intended for people who have engaged in some previous anti-racism training. If you are not sure if your previous anti-racism work has prepared you for this session, contact Thérèse Samuel tsamuel@united-church.ca

Registration information coming soon.