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Pilgrimage Through the Pandemic

A Series for Learning, Reflection, and Transformation

DurhamCares invites you to join us for four conversations dealing with some of the ways COVID-19 has impacted the community.  These conversations will feature directly impacted people and experts in their field sharing their experiences, reflections, data and research.  Our overarching question is the one that frames the Durham Pilgrimage of Pain and Hope: how is your story, the story of Durham, and God’s story being played out in the midst of this pandemic?  Other guiding questions, inspired by the practice of pilgrimage, will be: Whose story is being told and whose story is not being told?  Where do we see places for lament and where do we see hope?

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DurhamCares Pilgrimage Through the Pandemic

DurhamCares invites you to join us for four conversations dealing with some of the ways COVID-19 has impacted the community.  These conversations will feature directly impacted people and experts in their field sharing their experiences, reflections, data and research.  Our overarching question is the one that frames the Durham Pilgrimage of Pain and Hope: how is your story, the story of Durham, and God’s story being played out in the midst of this pandemic?  Other guiding questions, inspired by the practice of pilgrimage, will be: Whose story is being told and whose story is not being told?  Where do we see places for lament and where do we see hope? Following each conversation, a study guide will be sent out for further reflection and discussion. Register for upcoming webinars and watch past webinars at www.durhamcares.org/pilgrimage-pandemic.

Register today: 

April 30th, 11am – Facts from the Frontline: COVID-19 Healthcare and Research

Edwina Gabriel, RN – Director of Nursing at Lincoln Community Health Center

Thomas Denny, MSc, M.Phil – COO of Duke Human Vaccine Institute

Sarana Spalding-Markham, ANP – Geriatric Nurse Practitioner at UNC Hospitals

Robin Hanes-Featherstone – Shaw University, COVID-19 Survivor

Watch the Recording and Download Study Guide Here

 

May 7, 11am – Policy and the Pandemic: Government Responses and Their Impact

Jeremy Collins – Director of Public Relations, Office of the Governor

DeDreana Freeman – Durham City Council Member

Tony Hayes – Tribal Chair of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation

Miriam Valle – Programs and Operations Coordinator, DurhamCares

Watch the Recording and Download Study Guide Here

 

May 14, 11am – COVID-19 and Racism in Contemporary and Historical Context

Gina Chung – Educator, Community Activist and Organizer

Alexandra Valladares – City of Durham Human Relations Commissioner and Durham School Board Member

Dr. Charles Johnson – Chair, Department of Public History, North Carolina Central University

Ivan Almonte – Advocacy Director and Media Host of Bull City Lawyer

Griselda Alonso – Activist and Organizer

Watch the Recording and Download Study Guide Here

 

May 21, 11am – COVID-19 and Local Responses in Housing, Food, and Small Business

Georie Bryant – DurhamCares, Symbodied Consulting, Communities in Partnership

Drew Doll – Religious Coalition for Nonviolent Durham

Russell Pierce – Housing for New Hope

Amber Harper – AmberLynn Beauty

Ashley Harper – Harper’s Parlour

Register for this Webinar