Message from our ISAAC President Moving Forward in Love… I, like most black and brown people, are going through a flood of emotions right now. I don’t really know how to act or what to do, even though I have been engaged in this work of social justice for quite some time. This just feels [...]
Dear ISAAC Family, we pray this email finds you and yours well in the midst of all that is going on locally and nationwide. To all our Black, African American, African, Caribbean, Afro-Latino Brothers, Sisters and Family Members, we see you, we value you, we value your life, we love you and we thank God [...]
I am unapologetically black Every day of my life And my blackness is not a weapon Every time I blink my eyes you shouldn’t see triggers But yet to you I’m still just another Target Behind these masked walls of lies and deception that y’all have presented to us as a gift for our undying [...]
Through this Pandemic, May We Be Encouraged. Click to hear ISAAC Clergy and Community Leaders share what passages encourage them during difficult times. Juliana Hafner Joan Hawxhurst Dr. Regena Nelson Miriam Epskamp Apostle Valarie Cunningham Deacon Karen McDonald Maryam Khan Dr. Carolyn Heineman Sofia Ovalle-Lopez
We would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest ISAAC Family Member, Galilee Baptist Church! Galilee is a faith in action congregation with involvement in justice work, voting, racial & economic empowerment and service in the community. As a founding Congregation of ISAAC in the early 2000s, under the leadership of Bishop J. [...]
With a sad, but also loving and glad heart we say farewell to Rev. Steve Charnley! Kalamazoo has been blessed by Reverend Charnley, Pastor of First United Methodist Church. We thank God for his leadership, justice work, prayers & for being a blessing to ISAAC. We send God’s blessings and love to you into retirement, [...]
ISAAC is a respectable, responsible, caring group of people who help to lead Kalamazoo in the right direction! They have also helped me get onto the road of success! -Travontae McFerrin-Brown, 2016 Phoenix High School Graduate and KVCC Student Elder Douglas King, What Happens When… What happens when the promise of a young man is tragically [...]
A gentle reminder in song as we continue through this Pandemic! Sending a special thank you to our Awesome Singers: Elder Dorla Coleman-Bonner Wendy Flora Juliana Hafner Sofia Ovalle-Lopez Nathaly Olavarria Valencia Nick the Drummer
We need your circle of family, friends and colleagues to add their names to at least one of these letters! If you didn’t yet, please add your own name. Please also ask members of your congregation or organization to add their names. Choose any one or two or all three ways to show that you [...]
If you can make a gift to the ISAAC Endowment Fund by June 30, it will have extra power to sustain our work to build the Beloved Community, where every single person is held as beloved. Gifts received by June 30 will count toward the funds available to ISAAC in 2021! If there are much [...]
Meet Cathy Phason, our new Housing Advocacy Intern Cathryn Phason is a 48-year-old black female that was born and raised in Park Forest Illinois, the second oldest of six children. She lived in a world where she was taught not to share her personal business outside of the home, but she knows it’s time to [...]
May We Be Encouraged. Click to hear ISAAC Clergy and Community Leaders share what passages encourage them during difficult times. Rabbi Schicker Adrian Vazquez Rev. Gy Ludvig-McCartney Josephine Brown Maliha Raza Khan
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Ed Genesis is an artist, poet, musician, organizer, entrepreneur, and community leader. Born and raised in Gary, Indiana and moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan permanently in his early 20’s, his love of art/music, his passion for his people and community, and his gift of creativity are evident in all areas of his work. In October 2018 Ed Genesis released a song to accompany the campaign he was working on around school push out, entitled Junior High, which was distributed nationwide including on his own iHeart radio station, Spotify, and iTunes.