Help ReconcilingWorks welcome the newest Reconciling in Christ (RIC) community:
Lutheran Campus Ministry of Bemidji in Bemidji, Minnesota.
Their welcome statement reads:
“Lutheran Campus Ministry of Bemidji is located on land and water that is the current and ancestral homeland of the Ojibwe and Dakota.
We recognize that each of us is a unique creation made in the image of God. We celebrate and give thanks for the many diverse gifts that God has bestowed on us. We proclaim ourselves to be an Open and Affirming congregation to all of God’s community welcoming into our ministry persons of every race, culture, age, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, ability, and economic status. We commit ourselves to embracing the work of anti-racism, social and economic justice, and environmental care.
We believe that through our openness we all grow in our faith through Christ’s teaching to love one another as God loves us.“