Tim Hoekstra

God, Unite us. Make things clear. Bring justice. Have mercy. Release peace, hope and love. Amen. #6oclockprayer #globalprayer #chicagoprayer #noonprayer #blacklivesmatter – at La Grange Park, IL

God, Unite us. Make things clear. Bring justice. Have mercy. Release peace, hope and love. Amen. #6oclockprayer #globalprayer #chicagoprayer #noonprayer #blacklivesmatter

What if today was a day of lament for the truth that there was never, and in many ways there still isn’t, independence for all human beings? #blacklivesmatter #nativepeople #indigenouspeople

God, Unite us. Make things clear. Bring justice. Have mercy. Release peace, hope and love. Amen. #6oclockprayer #globalprayer #chicagoprayer #noonprayer #blacklivesmatter – at La Grange Park, IL

God, Unite us. Make things clear. Bring justice. Have mercy. Release peace, hope and love. Amen. #6oclockprayer #globalprayer #chicagoprayer #noonprayer

God, Unite us. Make things clear. Bring justice. Have mercy. Release peace, hope and love. Amen. #6oclockprayer #globalprayer #chicagoprayer #noonprayer

Learn about housing policy inequality and economic policy inequality - if we develop a willingness to make significant lasting changes in the years ahead, we will need to look underneath to law and policy, etc. read to listen, learn without needing to agree with everything.

Important to understand how we got here - at least in part - understand intentional decisions by white dominant leadership. Or we keep status quo going!Read this book a couple years ago and in it again.

God, Unite us. Make things clear. Bring justice. Have mercy. Release peace, hope and love. Amen. #6oclockprayer #globalprayer #chicagoprayer #noonprayer #blacklivesmatter

Westside Chicago clean up - Laramie a d Lake! Quite a crew!!!

One of the very first things I remember African-American Pastor - The Rev. Clarence Hilliard - saying to so many of us 22 years ago as our churches started in relationship was “We need to learn from history or it is bound to repeat itself.” Listening and learning again!

The books I am hanging out in these weeks.

God, Unite us. Make things clear. Bring justice. Have mercy. Release peace, hope and love. Amen. #6oclockprayer #globalprayer #chicagoprayer #noonprayer – at La Grange Park, IL

God, Unite us. Make things clear. Bring justice. Have mercy. Release peace, hope and love. Amen. #6oclockprayer #globalprayer #chicagoprayer #noonprayer – at La Grange Park, IL

Look at our 6k for water route in Riverside, IL !!#6kforwater

Getting ready for our World Vision 6k - the average distance to walk to a water source in Africa - thousands of us doing it today in unity! We walk so that they walk less and receive the fullness of life! #6kforwater

Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ;give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous and all for your love’s sake – at La Grange Park, IL

God, Unite us. Make things clear. Bring justice. Have mercy. Release peace, hope and love. Amen. #6oclockprayer #globalprayer #chicagoprayer #noonprayer

What an important time to read or reread this book by Soong-Chan Rah!!! This is a time for lament and reflection in order to gain appropriate wisdom as we ask the questions “Is this the world and church that want moving forward? Are we willing to allow these ongoing injustices ?”