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.

Create a plan for your church

“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

Equip Your Leadership Team

Create a plan for your organization

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. DISCIPLING FOUR COMPLICATED EMOTIONS

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. FOUNDATIONS 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. CREATING 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 is followed by a “pastoral pause.” Pastoral pauses are supportive, shepherding conversations for senior leaders and their teams to have a safe place to discern how to navigate the difficult terrain of reconciling work.

Prepare your community

Arrabon offers self-led, low-barrier Bible study resources designed to cultivate the soil of reconciliation. These by providing a shared knowledge and language for discussion formed by Scripture geared toward helping churches practice biblical reconciliation.

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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 (Learn more)

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 (Learn more)

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 (Learn more)

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 (Learn more)

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 (Learn more)

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 (Learn more)

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.

Create a plan for your church

Be Equipped to Lead a Reconciling Community

Transform your organization spiritually, structurally, and culturally with the help of our team trainings.

Explore Organizational Change

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.