Lariat Article

Changing the face of the congregation

By Jade Mardirosian
Staff Writer

Baylor’s Academy for Leader Development and Civic Engagement is partnering with Waco’s Community Race Relations Coalition on a project that will work toward racial healing in the community through “swapping churches.”

The project is “A Grassroots Approach to Dismantling the Most Segregated Hour in America,” or “Church Swap” for short, and works by having its participants attend a church of their same religious denomination, but of a race other than their own.

Ramona Curtis, director for the Academy for Leader Development and Civic Engagement, is the driving force behind the project, which is being funded by a grant from the Kellogg Foundation.

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