NAIITS x Fuller: Indigenous Voices of Resilience in SoCal, a partnership between NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community and Fuller Seminary, begins at 7 p.m. Pacific on Friday, Nov. 14 in the Travis Auditorium at Fuller Seminary, 135 N. Oakland Ave., Pasadena, California, and runs through Saturday, Nov. 15.
Panels and workshops at this two-day event span a number of topics, including Indigenous ministry and cultural development in SoCal, Indigenous women’s leadership, ministry with Indigenous youth and young adults, asset-based approaches, arts and ministry and more.
Speakers include Shari Russell, director of NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community; Virginia Carmelo, former chairperson of the Gabrielino/Tongva Nation of the Los Angeles Basin; Mary Crist, Indigenous theological education coordinator for The Episcopal Church; Soong-Chan Rah, Robert Boyd Munger Professor of Evangelism at Fuller Theological Seminary and co-author of “Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery;” and more.
A social reception sharing highlights from the new book “Reading the Bible on Turtle Island: An Invitation to North American Indigenous Interpretation” by NAIITS faculty members H. Daniel Zacharias and T. Christopher Hoklotubbe will follow at 5 p.m. Saturday.
The event is free, but a donation is suggested.