Friday, June 2, 5:00 – 7:00 pm – Edwards House Opening Reception with Refreshments, Sacred Ally Quilt Showing, showing of Stitch, Breathe, Speak film and Vespers (Evening Prayer Service).
Saturday, June 3, 1:00 – 4:00 pm – Deepening our Understanding: Acting for Change - Sacred Ally Quilt Showing, showing of Stitch, Breathe, Speak film, featured Guest Speakers, Action Opportunities and Closing Worship
Sunday, June 4 from 1:00 – 3:00 pm – A Mosaic of Hope: Stories, Quilts & Stepping Stones – A special opportunity for youth and families. Sacred Ally Quilts showing accompanied by indoor and outdoor engagements created for an intergenerational experience.
A powerful quilt exhibition memorializing the words of George Floyd will be traveling throughout the Southern New England Conference this spring.
The Sacred Ally Quilt Ministry was formed by nine New Hampshire United Church of Christ congregations, who came together in response to the senseless killing of George Floyd. The exhibition prayerfully, stitch by stitch, invites us to be more deeply present with his final words.
“George Floyd’s pain won’t go away. We respect it, walk gingerly around it as one would around a grave. We honor his pain with this stitching, these prayers in thread,” said the Rev. Mark Koyama, pastor of the United Church of Jaffrey, NH. “These quilts are a distillation of four hundred years of oppression. They express the devastating pain of America’s racial wounds.”
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