How can we build genuine unity and reconciliation in the church in America? Or for that matter, the church in Rwanda, Congo, Togo, Kenya, India, Burma…? Using cultural or ethnic or gender identity markers to define ourselves off against each other will not promote deep reconciliation. Quite radically, and quite stunningly to our flesh, God reminds us that rich oppressor and poor oppressed, those with cultural power and those without, have now become the one people of God - now, all of us, are equally identified as “one in Christ” through our faith in Him, and through the unity achieved and purchased by the Cross and Resurrection of Christ. We are praying the 2020 Reconciliation and Justice Conference will fan the flames of our unity and heighten our witness of the reconciling power of Jesus Christ to a watching world.

- Barry Henning

Unity through the Cross: Forgiving as Christ Forgave Us
Reverend Barry Henning – Founding Pastor, New City Fellowship, St. Louis, MO

Identity Over All Others 
Reverend Irwyn Ince – Founding Director, Grace DC Institute for Cross-Cultural Mission, Washington, DC

Unity Through the Anointing and Gifting of the Holy Spirit:  One Spirit – A  Diversity of People and Gifting
Reverend Thurman Williams – Senior Pastor, New City Fellowship West End, St. Louis, MO 

Unity Through Worship:  Embracing Diverse Cultural Expressions of Worship 
Mary Higgins – Worship Director, Central West End Church, St. Louis, MO
Jim Ward – Pastor, New City Fellowship, St. Louis, MO

Panel Discussion – contact for audio – lisa@ncfstl.org 

Unity Through Refusing Condemnation While Speaking the Truth in Love:  How Mercy Triumphs Over Judgement
Reverend Joshua Charette – Pastor, Great Plains Gathering, Billings, MT  

Unity Through Embracing Our Diversity: Intentionally Reconciling Gender, Ethnic, and Cultural Diversity in the Kingdom
Denine Blevins – Program Director, African American Ministries PCA – Huntsville, AL
Suzanne Bates – Professor, Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, MO

Unity Through Preaching Reconciliation and Justice Themes in Scripture 
Tony Myles – Senior Pastor, New City Fellowship, St. Louis, MO