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This is the page for the Justice & Equity Ministries of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Lancaster, PA
(www.GoodShepherdLancaster.org)

This is the online space for the Justice Ministries of the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Lancaster, PA. Do you have a heart for justices and a desire to be part of a group who is working for justice in our community and beyond? Join us and discover a community that values relationships, justice for the oppressed, and love for one’s neighbor. The Towards Racial Justice small group:

*Participates in ongoing learning about racism to better understand how it is embedded in the policies and practices of society and organizations, and the impact these inequitable policies have on people of color.
*Participates in ongoing learning to uncover and take action on our implicit biases and embedded ways of seeing the world that create inequity, division, and injustice.
*Participates in organized action to seek justice and wellbeing of ourselves and our neighbors

10/20/2026

Check out this 1933 Land Acknowledgement -- Lancaster County Historical Society was doing good work.

Read more here: https://unchartedlancaster.com/2026/10/20/the-marietta-you-cannot-see-forgotten-graves-burning-churches-and-a-hidden-history/?fbclid=IwY2xjawVEk99leHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBWJyaWQRMUx4eWJFSThCR1NIQ3FmTUlzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEebm6kCVaEWzA5tBeP2reGj6-gpJiOSb1WLGi37oVuSWWpiTxFpRmdxBIo6d4_aem_soBU-2zviu8hWZZVX0fNhQ

10/20/2026

Let's keep showing up and doing the work!

Racial Justice as Evangelism

10/06/2026

Here's an opportunity for action...

Handwritten postcards to real voters who skip midterms. A community-funded get-out-the-vote campaign. A project of Signs of Justice.

10/06/2026

This is horrendous!

10/03/2026

Good Shepherd is in the house! An Evening of Music and Art with Gerry McCritty at the PAVAA Gallery

10/03/2026

As you are getting your home ready for Halloween, please bear in mind...

Any "decorations" that show h@n9in9 are inappropriate in a society committed to loving your neighbor. Please consider the extent to which they look like the scene of a lynching and how that might impact Black and brown families in your neighborhood.

An alternative is to hang a ghost from invisible fishing line. This gives the ghost a more ethereal sense without creating a potentially triggering display.

Thank you for your consideration.

Click the article below for helpful context. (T.W.: GRAPHIC PHOTOS AND UPSETTING EXAMPLES OF ACTUAL OCCURRENCES OF LYNCHING are contained in this article.)

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A History of Racism: Understanding how White Americans used lynchings to control Black people Posted by TheGuardian | Oct 23, 2020 | The City of Milwaukee has one documented case of a lynching, involving George Marshall Clark in 1861. For the following 14 years until 1875, eight lynchings took place...

10/03/2026

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🌽🍎🌽 Come on out tomorrow, Saturday, October 3rd, 10am-3pm and JOIN US for the annual Maize & Snitz Festival!

🌽🍎🌽Visit Lancaster Longhouse during the festival for special demonstrations as well as Native artists, performers, vendors, and historians, including a special presentation by our Reckoning with Lancaster Summer Scholars.

🌽🍎🌽 1719 Museum
1849 Hans Herr Drive
Willow Street, PA 17584 United States
BUY YOUR TICKETS HERE: https://mennonitelife.org/event/maize-snitz-fest-2026/

10/02/2026

More opportunities for learning...the Reckoning With Lancaster project:

A community engagement project at Franklin & Marshall College exploring indigeneity, settler colonialism, and the land question. Reckoning with Lancaster WHY RECKONING? WHY NOW? Our project explores Indigenous community and settler colonialism in a context of erasure—a region and state that has no...

10/02/2026

Here is a "Decolonization" reading list...

“What is Decolonization? If settler colonialism is the elimination of the Native, decolonization is the structural and legal elimination of settler privilege and settler domination.” – Dr. Nick Estes “Representation alone cannot solve the problem of white privilege in LIS any more than (self...

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750 Greenfield Road
Lancaster, PA
17601

Website

https://www.goodshepherdlancaster.org/racialjustice/

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