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.” 

Rev. Josh Hayden, First Baptist Church of Ashland

“Arrabon brought fresh language and a biblical perspective. The training Arrabon provides doesn’t play according to the rules of left or right, woke or conservative. I feel like Arrabon’s material is able to avoid being simplified or dumbed down by those games.”
Pastor Jeff Schneider, Boulevard Presbyterian Church of Oak Park, IL

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.”

Rev. Josh Hayden, First Baptist Church of Ashland, VA

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.

Online Anytime
  8 weeks

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.

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What are we aiming for in the work of reconciliation?

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Help us build more reconciling communities

Toxic polarization is tearing apart communities. We can make a difference with your help.

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