Commission for Intercultural Ministries

Our Vision

Striving to reflect the diversity of heaven by living into the long-term commitment to racial healing, reconciliation, and justice of Beloved Community in the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California.

Our Mission

Our mission is to build the Beloved Community within the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California. With partners, we are identifying and prioritizing needs within the diocese and developing initiatives to address those needs, to make Beloved Community part of the culture and fabric of our congregations.

Examples of these initiatives include Sacred Ground and racial healing and reconciliation training; the diocesan Racial Justice Audit; public policy advocacy; Tule Lake Concentration Camp located within our diocese; Indigenous ministries and land acknowledgment; immigration ministries; Latino/Hispanic ministries; African American ministries; reparations, and the Rainbow Ministry.

Who We Are

As followers of Jesus, we are lay and clergy volunteers committed to embodying our Baptismal Covenant to strive for justice and peace, and to respect the dignity of every human being. We are inspired by the King Center philosophy to “envision the Beloved Community where injustice ceases and love prevails.”

The labyrinth represents the self-reflection and examination we must do individually and as a community, guided by the Holy Spirit to become God’s Beloved Community.