Lay Leader Events
Saturday, September 7, 2024
"Underground Railroad Museum of Burlington County"
Historic Smithville Park, NJ
The NJ Synod's Transforming White Privilege facilitators invite you to join them on their next journey to learn about the history of New Jersey's chattel slavery. We hope you will engage in conversation with us about the history of whiteness in America. We ask that you open your hearts and minds to this conversation while considering the importance of racial equity and justice. Remember we are called to loved as Christ continues to love us.
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Tours last about one hour
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Conducted at 1:00 p.m. with a brief discussion to follow
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More information will be provided with registration
1930 State Highway 33
Hamilton Square, NJ 08690
609-586-6800
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“Our synod office is located on land which is part of the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape, called “Lenapehoking.” The Lenape People lived in harmony with one another upon this territory for thousands of years. During the colonial era and early federal period, many were removed west and north, but some also remain among the continuing historical tribal communities of the region: The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation; the Ramapough Lenape Nation; and the Powhatan Renape Nation, The Nanticoke of Millsboro Delaware, and the Lenape of Cheswold Delaware. We acknowledge the Lenni-Lenape as the original people of this land and their continuing relationship with their territory. In our acknowledgment of the continued presence of Lenape people in their homeland, we affirm the aspiration of the great Lenape Chief Tamanend, that there be harmony between the indigenous people of this land and the descendants of the immigrants to this land, “as long as the rivers and creeks flow, and the sun, moon, and stars shine.”