{"id":1599,"date":"2021-07-21T14:10:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T18:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belmontumcrichmond.org\/bumc2\/?page_id=1599"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:57:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:57:58","slug":"race-and-reconciliation-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.belmontumcrichmond.org\/bumc2\/race-and-reconciliation-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial Justice Network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As part of Belmont’s heritage of racial reconciliation, the Racial Justice Network is offering a gathering via zoom on the first Thursday of each month at 7:00 PM. This Network brings people together to discuss racial justice concerns and the current issues of the day regarding racial justice and opportunities on how we can make a difference in this area. Please contact MaryKaye Cochran at 804-521-1124 if you are interested in joining this effort or email her at racialjnetwork@gmail.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Racial Justice Network in partnership with the Cornelius Corp https:\/\/corneliuscorps.org\/<\/a> will be offering a conference titled: “Resisting Racial Justice in the Way of Jesus”. This will be held on February 28, 2026 at Belmont UMC and will offer a time for worship, learning, and sharing in the area of spiritual formation, non-violent direct action and conversations. The keynote speaker will be Rev. Ben Campbell, Richmond Hill founder and civil rights activist. A flyer for this event is below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A link to the Virginia Conference race relations video series is below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/vaumc.org\/racerelationsvideos<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of Belmont’s heritage of racial reconciliation, the Racial Justice Network is offering a gathering via zoom on the first Thursday of each month at 7:00 PM. This Network brings people together to discuss racial justice concerns and the current issues of the day regarding racial justice and opportunities on how we can make a difference in this area. Please contact MaryKaye Cochran at 804-521-1124 if you are interested in joining this effort or email her at racialjnetwork@gmail.com. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1599","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.belmontumcrichmond.org\/bumc2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.belmontumcrichmond.org\/bumc2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.belmontumcrichmond.org\/bumc2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.belmontumcrichmond.org\/bumc2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.belmontumcrichmond.org\/bumc2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.belmontumcrichmond.org\/bumc2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"https:\/\/www.belmontumcrichmond.org\/bumc2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1599\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.belmontumcrichmond.org\/bumc2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}