Dear friends,

 

I missed you last Sunday and hope you are well and enjoying this “Spring Break” week if you are someone for whom that is relevant! As I shared last week, I traveled both to NH for a boundaries and self-differentiated leadership class and then to CT for the final gathering of my two-year PINNE fellowship– the Pastoral Innovation Network of New England. Both were rich opportunities of reflection that have already begun to infuse my ministry at A2U2 in small but meaningful ways. 

 

I am excited to be together on Sunday for a very special service entitled “A Pastor, a Rabbi, and a Priest Walk into a Sweatshirt Factory…” Five of my colleagues from the Greater Portland Multifaith Organizing Group will join us at A2U2 to share their reflections on some of the organizing and solidarity work we did together during the ICE surge in January. We’ll hear from Rev. Jane Field (Presbyterian), Rabbi Rachel Simmons (Conservative Jewish), Father Mike Seavey (Retired Catholic Priest), Rev. Devin Green (Interfaith), and Fritz Weiss (Quaker layleader). It’s rare to get so many clergy together in one place on a Sunday morning! 

 

During those frigid and harrowing weeks of January’s “Operation Catch of the Day,” we didn’t save anyone. We didn’t fix anything. There were no heroes. What we did do was we joined a movement, showed up when and where we were asked, and learned a whole lot in the process… about our faith, our organizing, and the ways in which we are all connected. I hope you’ll join us in person or online for what will surely be a powerful and faith-filled hour of story-sharing. 

 

Until we are together, may you be well. 

 

In faith,

Rev. Tara