"A Shot Toward Tomorrow" A BCDVI Health Equity Campaign
A campaign initiated to appropriately address vaccine hesitancy within faith based communities and advocate for equitable access to preventive medical and intervention protocols during the COVID pandemic. This campaign is designed to explore medical mistrust due to historical injustices experienced by vulnerable communities and to provide information that fosters well-being and public health. For more information about campaign events, [email protected]
The Black Church and Domestic Violence Institute (BCDVI), a national educational ministry, was founded in 1997 to address the cultural chasm between communities of faith and the violence against women movement. BCDVI supports clergy training to provide culturally competent education on intimate partner violence and other public health crises.
The Rev. Aubra Love, Founding Executive Director, is an ordained minister whose standing is held in the Central Atlantic Conference of the United Church of Christ. A public theologian, pastor and movement ethicist for more than 25 years, Rev. Love is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and the Morehouse School of Religion at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, GA.
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"A Shot Toward Tomorrow"
Clergy Leadership Conversation for COVID Protocols
Sunday, February 19, 2023, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
A virtual offering after morning worship services
For three years, our pastors and wellness ministries have been challenged to develop protocols that ensure safety for congregants seeking to return to the sanctuary. Even as some may regard the pandemic as a past crisis, our health and wellness ministries continue to share cases of hospitalizations and serious COVID-related illnesses.
This conversation is a community-building workshop to resource clergy, laity and health and wellness ministries seeking practical steps in congregational care regarding protocols for infectious disease.
Getting to Yes! Michigan
https://www.gettingtoyesmichigan.org
Getting to Yes, Michigan is a program that aims to increase knowledge and acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines. Churches across Michigan are taking part in this important effort to reach out to their community members. Resources are available online for church leaders desiring to increase vaccination rates within their congregations.
Two years after Covid vaccines rolled out, researchers are calling for newer, better options
Despite the success of mRNA vaccines, researchers think a new generation of Covid vaccines could provide broader, longer-term protection in the future. Two years after the first Covid shots went into arms, a growing chorus of researchers is calling for a new generation of vaccines that provide broader and more long-term protection against the disease. (more)
Greater than COVID Campaign - https://www.greaterthancovid.org/
Doctors, nurses, researchers and community health care workers provide facts and dispel misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines, in English and Spanish, in this FAQ video series from KFF with the Black Coalition Against COVID and UnidosUS. A series for parents and caregivers about the COVID-19 vaccine and children is presented with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Visit: https://www.greaterthancovid.org/ for more information for your family and community.
Sermon by the Rev. Aubra Love
Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, Washington DC, October 2022
"Easy Does It"
Scriptures: 2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c, Luke 17:11-19
By a show of hands, how many of you lost someone to Covid over this pandemic period? Let me see by show of hands. Yes, I lost cousins, who were close to my age. Thank you. Put your hands down, now. God, in your tender mercies, please tend the hearts of your people. (more)