Can you help spread the word and invite others you know? SAVE the DATE! ISAAC 2020 Public Meeting Building the Beloved Community Thursday evening, OCTOBER 22, 2020 Virtual! Engaging presentations on new policy changes needed, in line with our faith values – Anti-Racism, Affordable Housing, Gun Violence Prevention – and commitments of support from our […]

The City Commission’s Public Hearing and vote on the Housing Equity Ordinance are finally happening–on Tuesday evening September 8th, the day after Labor Day!  We are very hopeful that the Housing Equity ordinance will pass, if the ISAAC Family turns out as usual to support what’s good and right. Here is the excellent schedule of […]

On average, 1342 school-aged children experienced homelessness in Kalamazoo County each school year from 2014–2017. Such good news!  The County Commission voted overwhelmingly August 5, to put the “Housing for All” millage on the countywide ballot on November 3!    See the Millage Plan here, thoughtfully crafted by our Kalamazoo County Public Housing Commission and an […]

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 […]