The TWK Anti-Racism Coalition and Signposts are co-sponsoring a retreat, The Long-Haul Journey for Justice and Love, with Dr. Catherine Meeks, November 21 – 22 at NaCoMe Camp and Retreat Center in Pleasantville, TN (3232 Sulphur Creek Rd, Pleasantville, TN 37033).

The goal of the retreat is to enable participants to unite the habits and practices of racial healing and anti-racism in the Beloved Community. This retreat will focus on making our lives pilgrimages of hope and resistance with habits, practices, and a community that sustains the work of justice and love over the long haul.

The cost of the retreat is $40.

To register go to https://bit.ly/3TH7XMf . Once you register you will receive instructions for making payment.

Dr. Meeks has devoted her life and career to the work of racial healing and anti-racism. She is the author of 8 books including critically acclaimed, The Night is Long but Light Comes in the Morning: Meditations on Racial Healing (2022) and her most recent work, The Quilted Life:

Reflections of a Sharecropper’s Daughter (2024),

Dr. Meeks is the recipient of many awards in her 34 years of service and work. Included in her list of awards are the W.E.B. DuBois Award for Distinguished Community Service, the Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter Award for Community and Campus Partnership, and the President Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement and Service Award. Dr. Meeks has been awarded 3 Honorary Doctor of Theology degrees including her most recent from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University.

Dr. Meeks was the founding Director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing in Atlanta, Ga, and currently serves as the founder and Director of Turquoise and Lavender Institute for Transformation and Healing.

If you have any questions please email Larry Chitwood at Larry.Chitwood@twkumc.org.