Build a Reconciling Community:
Be an Agent of Racial Healing
Racial brokenness in the church pushes people away.
Draw people in by demonstrating the power of the Gospel
to bring reconciliation and racial healing.
Equip Your Leadership Team
Arrabon’s workshop track equips leadership teams to demonstrate the transforming power of reconciliation. Learn the skills, habits, and practices needed to build a reconciling community.
1. Foundation of a Reconciling Community
Gain pastoral skills to address the complicated emotions that often surface in conversations about race, class, and culture. Create a healthy foundation on which to build a framework for reconciliation.
2. Pillars of a Reconciling Community
Develop shared knowledge, language, and vision for how a reconciling community operates. Learn the story of race in America and how it relates to reconciliation in your context.
3. Building an Action Plan for a Reconciling Community
Develop a customized 3-year strategic plan for your organization to become a more reconciling community.
Each of these workshops are followed by consultation calls— supportive, shepherding conversations for senior leaders to discern how to navigate the difficult terrain of reconciling work.
“[After working with Arrabon]…we are able to navigate much more complex conversations without detonating a landmine every single time we talk.”
Prepare Your Community
Arrabon offers self-led, low-barrier, Bible study resources designed to cultivate the soul of reconciliation. These small group studies will help your community develop shared knowledge and language for discussion that is formed by Scripture and geared toward helping churches become reconciling communities.
About Arrabon
Arrabon is a spiritual formation ministry that equips the American Church to actively and creatively pursue racial healing in their communities by offering a discipleship process that results in a new action.
Arrabon’s approach has five key distinctives:
An emphasis on hope over shame
Language laced with shame may momentarily create a desire for change but acts as a demotivator in the long run. People cannot creatively reimagine and innovate when mired in feelings of shame. Instead, they must be motivated by a hopeful vision of the future
An emphasis on hope over shame
Language laced with shame may momentarily create a desire for change but acts as a demotivator in the long run. People cannot creatively reimagine and innovate when mired in feelings of shame. Instead, they must be motivated by a hopeful vision of the future
An emphasis on formation over information
Information alone doesn’t change people. To heal areas of racial brokenness, people must be invited into healthier ways of being and engaging in the world.
An emphasis on practice over theory
Churches need both sound theory and sound practice to experience transformation. An overemphasis on theory leads to a disconnect between knowledge and embodied action, ultimately leading to inaction.
An emphasis on the community over the individual
Individuals form communities, and communities form individuals. It is the responsibility of Christian communities to form people into reconciling communities.
An emphasis on peacemaking over partisanship
In polarizing times, people are tempted to fall into in-group vs. out-group thinking – labeling others as “for” or “against” them. The practice of peacemaking in the midst of divides is the place where spiritual maturity is tested and cultivated.
Be Equipped to Lead a Reconciling Community
Transform your organization spiritually, structurally, and culturally with the help of our team trainings.
We engaged Arrabon to help our congregation better understand its neighbors, but over time they’ve helped make our entire ministry healthier and more effective.”
Our work is shaped by years of practice
Our holistic approach to reconciliation guides leaders, communities, and culture-makers together on a path to transform their organization and heal racial divisions.
New Course
Group Study
A People, a Place, and a Just Society
Explore how God’s heart for justice is revealed throughout the entire biblical narrative with our new devotional-style group study.
Discover a biblical and historical vision for practicing reconciliation
Engage your community in learning and discussing where race, class, and the Bible intersect.
Create lasting cultural change
Discover new ways to innovate and create a culture of reconciliation.