Salvation and Social Justice
“Our participation in the Community History learning sessions helped us to restructure our project. We learned that our project can be even more successful if we focus on one church in our denomination.”
Salvation and Social Justice seeks to liberate public policy theologically by modeling the hope and resiliency of Black faith. With a long-term goal of telling the story of liberation advocacy in the African Methodist Episcopal Church across New Jersey, they focused this first project on the 200-year history of Greater Mt. Zion AME Church, the oldest Black church in Trenton. They contracted a historian, documentarian, and technology company to map out a strategic plan to tell the story of Greater Mt. Zion’s history of participating in the fight for the freedom and economic growth of Black people.