THANK YOU to everyone who helped make “Moving Toward Justice” such a success! The first ever ISAAC Walk/Run/Roll “Moving Toward Justice” bought people of all ages together from many different parts of the community on Saturday, June 30, at Spring Valley Park. “We are becoming the Beloved Community, where every person is held as beloved, as […]
Rabbi Matthew Zerwekh, thank you for blessing and touching our lives as we continue to grow, learn and Become The Beloved Community. We are excited to see all God has in store for you and your family on this new journey. We are ISAAC Family for Life. – Elder Doug King & Dr. Charlae Davis, […]
See the videos below of ISAAC leaders talking about the Walk/Run/Roll on Saturday morning, June 30 at Spring Valley Park! If you haven’t already signed up, we want to invite you to join ISAAC’s Walk/Run/Roll: Building the Beloved Community: Moving Towards Justice. The Beloved Community is an inclusive, democratic reality that, while not devoid of conflict, is free of violence. […]
Save Thursday evening, October 25 for the ISAAC 2018 Public Meeting! This is the evening when a HUGE audience is needed to show public officials how very strong our faith communities’ support is when they make changes of policy or practice that create equity and build a more just community. October 25 is the evening […]
With so many atrocities happening daily in the war on racism, we continue to hear these compelling stories of people standing up for justice. We are intrigued by the media outlets focusing on all the good and the bad things that are happening within our own country. Day by day and hour by hour. We ask ourselves what does being racist […]
Over the past months the Poverty Task Force has been gathering information from articles, documentaries and one-one interviews with leaders in Kalamazoo to help us understand who is impacted by poverty and who benefits from impoverishing people.
Two recent Mlive articles illustrate the success of ISAAC’s process of catalyzing public policy changes to build the Beloved Community. It was past efforts of our Housing Task Force that catalyzed the adoption in our community of both of these new housing strategies reported on MLive: Bronson Hospital Program Houses Frequent Emergency Room Visitors By […]
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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.