Shalom Summit: Disciples Pursuing Racially Just Neighborhoods
Come join us at the Harrisburg First Church of the Brethren for a powerful event focused on pursuing racial justice in our neighborhoods. This in-person summit will bring together disciples from all walks of life to discuss, and get equipped to take action towards pursuing a community where everyone belongs, where everyone matters, and where everyone can thrive.
We are living in a moment marked by political chaos and repression, the corrosion of truth, and the increased suffering and vulnerability of our neighbors. In such a time, our discipleship to Jesus must not be domesticated, neutralized to injustice, or accommodating of those who abuse power. The call of followers of Jesus is unmistakable: we must nonviolently resist the violence against vulnerable people.
The 2026 Shalom Summit is a gathering to sit under the wisdom and witness of prophetic voices and theological leaders from across the country, wrestling seriously with what it means to embody a liberating, Jesus-shaped faith in the shadow of empire and targeted persecution.
Save the date and join us for this pivotal day in Harrisburg.
One day event.
EVENT WILL INCLUDE:
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SPEAKERS
HEADLINER
Dominique Gilliard
Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard’s latest book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilege won Englewood Review’s 2021 Book of the Year Award. Gilliard is an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary, and he was named as North Park Theological Seminary’s Distinguished Alumni in 2022.
Isaac Villegas
Isaac Villegas is an ordained minister in the Mennonite Church USA who is involved in the work of community organizing and activism for immigrant justice. He is the author of Migrant God: A Christian Vision for Immigrant Justice. He is also a contributing editor for The Christian Century. He has served as president of the NC Council of Churches and on the denominational board of the Mennonite Church USA. He grew up in the borderlands of the U.S. southwest as a child of Latin American immigrants. He currently lives in Durham, North Carolina.
Sheila Wise Rowe
Shelia Wise Rowe (B.A., Tufts University; M.Ed., Cambridge College) has offered counseling and spiritual direction to trauma survivors as well as emerging and established leaders internationally for over thirty years. She ministered to unhoused and abused women and children in Johannesburg, South Africa, served as a lay pastor, and taught counseling and trauma-related courses for a decade. Sheila is a speaker, trainer, and writer for various publications and authored the award-winning book, Healing Racial Trauma and Young, Gifted, and Black. She and her husband, Nicholas Rowe, co-authored Healing Leadership Trauma.
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EVENT ORGANIZER
Dr. Drew Hart
Drew G. I. Hart is an associate professor of theology at Messiah University, where he currently directs the Thriving Together: Congregations for Racial Justice program in central PA. He co-hosts Inverse Podcast with Australian peace activist Jarrod McKenna, and is the author of Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism (2016), Who Will Be A Witness?: Igniting Activism for God’s Justice, Love, and Deliverance (2020), and he most recently co-edited Reparations and the Theological Disciplines: Prophetic Voices for Remembrance, Reckoning, and Repair (Nov. 2023). Drew regularly speaks at colleges, conferences, churches and community groups across the country. He is married to Renee and is the father of three sons.
Parking
There are several parking lots around the church, as well as street parking. Attendants will be available on the day of the event to assist with parking.
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