Is there a connection between race and discipleship? What does it mean to move from being color-blind to color-courageous? How do these ideas relate to our Christian faith? Join the NSGP churches as we explore these important questions!
5-6:15pm - Book Talk & Reception: Hear from author and ministry leader, Michelle Sanchez, as she shares about her work around discipleship and race. We’ll host an interview and Q&A session, followed by a reception. Books will be available for purchase and may be signed by the author.
5-6:15pm - Color-Courageous Kids: While the grown-ups are upstairs in the book talk & reception, we’ll be offering children’s discipleship programming downstairs for ages Pre-K to 5th grade. Kids will engage in activities and crafts centered around Michelle’s picture book, God’s Beloved Community. A simple dinner will be provided. Our nursery will also be available throughout the evening with volunteers. All children’s volunteers will be CORI-checked.
6:30-8pm - BIPOC-Only Dinner: If you are Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color, we invite you to stick around after the reception to share dinner with other BIPOC members of the NSGP churches and an open conversation with Michelle Sanchez and local ministry leaders. Come hungry and ready for conversation! Dinner is free and will be catered by La Victoria Taqueria (a BIPOC-owned restaurant.) Childcare is provided. Please register so we can plan for food and childcare volunteers!
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Michelle is passionate to see disciples be transformed as they transform the world. She serves as Executive Minister of Make and Deepen Disciples for the Evangelical Covenant Church. She has also served on the advisory board of the Institute for Bible reading, ministered to international students with Cru in New York City, and engaged in three global gatherings of the Lausanne Movement.
Michelle earned an M.Div. and Th.M. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, completed spiritual direction training at Boston College, and studied the life and times of Jesus at Jerusalem University College.
After majoring in international business at NYU, she worked as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs.
A regular columnist with Outreach Magazine, Michelle and her family live in the greater Chicago area. Michelle is the author of a trilogy of books that provide Christ-centered racial discipleship for all ages: Color-Courageous Discipleship, Color-Courageous Discipleship Student Edition, and the picture book, God’s Beloved Community.