Diversity Café

The Diversity Café group consists of people from churches, both urban and suburban and non-church individuals that have been meeting together for the past several years.

This community came together out of a perceived need for faithful men and women of different cultures and races to build relationships with one another and have candid discussions on race.

Martin Luther King, Jr. famously commented on the segregated state of Sunday morning. In this, Sunday morning obviously holds a mirror up to the week that follows it. Without intentionally coming together, this will not change and we will continue to live in the broken world of racial and cultural division.

Our mission going forward is to continue nurturing and expanding the relationships that have developed within this group.

We typically use a book study to assist in guiding our conversations. In one of the books we delved into — Roadmap to Reconciliation by Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil — she states that “…like Jesus and his disciples, we build small cadres of the Beloved Community that can infiltrate society and change it from the inside out over time.”

Love is a power that overcomes estrangement. Diversity Café is all about overcoming estrangement and living out Paul's words, "There is no more Jew nor Greek, male nor female, we are all one in Christ Jesus."