Tuscaloosa, Alabama
2022
To promote genuine grace-filled hospitality in worship through a more racially, culturally, and intergenerationally sensitive worship experience that is sustained and perpetuated through a message of love, adaptability, and social engagement during the worship experience.
Summarize your grant project and how it will address a need in your worshiping community.
To promote genuine hospitality in worship through a more racially, culturally, and intergenerationally sensitive worship experience that is sustained and perpetuated through a message of love, adaptability, and social engagement during the worship experience.
What two questions might you ask about worship in the coming year that will generate theological reflection and shape your project?
- Giving the social context, what is meaning worship for a contemporary society?
- How can we construct a worship service that reflect the practice of hospitality that we see in the life of Jesus?
How will your project impact the worship life and habits of the congregation?
The impact of worship will be to have an integrated, culturally and intergenerationally worship experience that will change the habits of the congregation to a vital worship environment for everyone from all backgrounds that walk through the doors to worship.
What might be your greatest challenges (or challenging opportunities)?
Confronting and bringing down the racial barriers that separate us and still exist in our communities.
What do you hope to learn from the Grants Event and other grant recipients?
We hope to learn how to deepen our knowledge based on hospitality in vital worship as well as educate others how to provide hospitality to other races and cultures. We wish to learn from other grant recipients ideas and projects on how they see worship according to biblical practices and ideas on bringing down racial barriers.