Episode II: Building Up a New World: Texas: Color Splashing in the Margins

Episode II: Building Up a New World: Texas: Color Splashing in the Margins

Episode II: Building Up a New World – Texas: Color Splashing in the Margins featuring Rev. Yadi Martinez

At our core, we are dedicated to advocating for the well-being of the youth we engage with. Our main objective is to establish secure and welcoming environments for LGBTQ+ teenagers and their allies, fostering a sense of support and empowerment.

With a splash of colors, the margins become a canvas of endless possibilities. We are driven by our commitment to social justice, racial equity, and ecological mindfulness.

Join us as we listen to our BIPOC siblings share their narratives, experiences, aspirations, and visions for a more equitable society.

Featuring: The Rev. Yadi Martínez-Reyn (M.Div.), ordained by the United Church of Christ, is a bilingual Latinx gender non-binary artist, a borderlander, and founder of Color Splash Out, a BIPOC led non-profit organization dedicated to creating safe and brave spaces for LGBTQ+ Youth and their ally friends. Rev. Yadi was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley in the frontera of Brownsville and Matamoros Mexico. Rev. Yadi serves as a Co-Pastor at First UCC in 2nd Life.

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More About This Five-Week Series:
The needs are great, and the stakes are high in the work of justice building. The good news is most of our local churches are already equipped more than they know.

In fact, many local churches might find renewal and growth by revisioning and reprioritizing what it means to be engaged in ongoing justice work and using a more intersectional analysis as to where they will have a transformative impact.

For the past two years, Rev. Tracy Howe designed a fellowship to train a handful of leaders and nurture the support necessary for sustained engagement in the complex and urgent issues facing our world.

Through this leadership program, 5-Fellows worked to develop organizing strategies, programming, and educational opportunities regionally, according to the specific needs and contexts in which the fellows live.

Come and learn more about their experiences and glean from the wisdom of their dedication to building congregation and community engagement!

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Nurture the Soul is a weekly webinar sharing practical, educational, innovative and formational resources and engaging critical topics for local churches and people of faith. Produced by Justice and Local Church Ministries of the United Church of Christ, we faithfully focus on care and education for the people of God, and create opportunities to gather, learn, engage and digitally worship together. From cultural and community organizing to congregational leadership, from worship and theology to resourcing small and rural churches, from ministry with youth and children to wide ranging justice issues, featuring guest artists, authors and key leaders, Nurture the Soul stays current to how the Gospel and our faith is alive in this time. This is a space for connection, community, and nurture. Together, we can bring our church, our community and the world, towards the world God imagines for all of us.