Working Groups are now forming for the Reparative Justice Fund
News
- Presbytery of Baltimore Approves Groundbreaking Reparative Justice Fund
- Govans Presbyterian Church celebrates racial justice and new artistic milestone, WMAR News Baltimore, Feb 5, 2025
- A Joint Service and Covenant Between Govans and Knox Presbyterian Churches
- The Presbytery of Baltimore became a Matthew 25 Presbytery November 9, 2023
Baltimore Presbytery Policy on Dismantling Racism Training
Revised policy approved at 889th Gathering on November 14, 2020
Addressing Anti-Asian Racism, March 22, 2021
Dismantling Racism: A Continuous Journey
As the title suggests, this one-day workshop has evolved over time to meet the presbytery requirement for Teaching Elders, staff, candidates for ministry and certain Ruling Elders as established by the presbytery in 2018 and revised in 2020. The Dismantling Racism Team offers at least 2 workshops per year and is open to people of all racial and ethnic backgrounds. As a majority white presbytery, there may be times when workshops are organized by affinity groups (people who share the same racial and ethnic identity). The workshops are open to ruling elders and other congregational leadership who want to strengthen their own antiracist leadership.
The full day workshops are 8:30 am.- 4 pm. and move around to different host churches. Workshop dates are listed on the Presbytery calendar and registration is opened well in advance. In 2026 there will be 3 offerings: January 19th, Week of May 18th and Mid-October.
The Dismantling Racism: A Continuous Journey workshop is co-facilitated by Ruling Elder Charese Jordan Moore (Knox) and Dr. Sarah M. Doerrer, an Instructional Coordinator with the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Anne Arundel Community College (Maryland) and board member for the Forage Center for Peacebuilding & Humanitarian Education. The workshop has a strong focus on participatory learning, grounded in our faith and history, and developing individualized next steps as individuals and presbytery/congregational leaders. The day is broken up into 4 modules:
- Building a Foundation
- Equipping Ourselves
- Connecting Concepts to our Communities
- Moving from Knowledge to Action
For more information about this workshop or interest in other learning opportunities, or if you are interested in becoming a workshop facilitator or instructor, please contact Susan Krehbiel, skrehbiel@baltimorepresbytery.org.
Reform to Transform Sermon: The Encounter: When Justa Meets Jesus
Dialogue Sermon The Canaanite/Syphronecian Woman August 19, 2020
B’More Human Presentations
A Series of online discussions and presentations organized by the In The Loop Ministry Group
Guest Speaker: Dr. William Yoo
Keynote speech and Q&A discussion at 889th Gathering of the Presbytery of Baltimore.
William Yoo is Associate Professor of American Religious and Cultural History and Director of the Master of Divinity Program at Columbia Theological Seminary. He is the author of two books, American Missionaries, Korean Protestants, and the Changing Shape of World Christianity and The Presbyterian Experience in the United States: A Sourcebook, and is currently working on a book project that traces the history of Presbyterians in the United States.
Dismantling Racism Team
Lea Gilmore, Govans, Staff – North Baltimore
Bobby Hall, Faith, RE – North Baltimore
Jessie Lowry, Christ Our Anchor, TE – Bay Area Disciples
Guy Moody, St. John United, RE – West Side Story
Charese Jordan Moore, Knox, RE – In the Loop
Annette Snyder, Hunting Ridge, RE – In the Loop
Ray Meute, Jr., Highland, TE. Susquehanna Parish
Cat Goodrich, Faith, TE – North Baltimore
Chris Watson , Light St., TE – In the Loop
Harold (Hal) J. Bennett, Grove, TE – Susquehanna Parish
Jose Lopez Chapa, Fallston, TE – Susquehanna Parish
Susan Krehbiel, Presbytery, RE – Staff
