Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People Archives

‘COVID at the Margins’ begins Monday

Posted May 8th, 2020

A new discussion series on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color — and how faith communities can address the problem — kicks off Monday on Facebook Live.

Presbyterian-funded program works to keep people in their homes during COVID-19

Posted May 7th, 2020

City Roots Community Land Trust in Rochester, New York, works to get people of modest incomes into quality homes, with the support of organizations such as the Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People.

Environmental justice and COVID-19 come together in CPJ Day webinar

Posted April 27th, 2020

Environmental justice organizer Emma Lockridge started off her Compassion, Peace & Justice Training Day talk telling viewers how COVID-19 looks in her South Detroit neighborhood.

Gayraud Wilmore, who led the Commission on Religion and Race, dies at age 98

Posted April 20th, 2020

The Rev. Gayraud Wilmore, a pastor, renowned scholar of African American church history, the first executive director of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.’s (UPCUSA) Commission on Religion and Race (CORAR) and a key figure in the civil rights movement, died Saturday at 98.

SDOP support prepared Detroit group to respond to COVID-19

Posted April 9th, 2020

In 2013, We the People of Detroit went to work addressing the immediate needs of residents who had their water shut off, often for dubious reasons, in the midst of the Motor City’s historic bankruptcy. Leaders such as Monica Lewis-Patrick and Debra Taylor were digging into their own pockets to buy water and deliver it out of the backs of their cars — sometimes recruiting neighborhood youth with reputations for making trouble to carry the loads up more than a dozen flights of stairs.

Self-Development of People reports on two years of partnership in Panama

Posted April 8th, 2020

The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People (SDOP) has been working in Panama, as a focus country, since 2018.

Webinar explores The Black Manifesto

Posted March 13th, 2020

When African American activist James Forman presented The Black Manifesto in 1969, calling for $500 million in reparations for injustices against black people, he made it clear that he thought Christian churches were partly to blame for the oppression of his people.

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