Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church

We are seeking an Associate Pastor to join a collaborative staff and focus on formation with
youth and their families and with young adults as well as support Grace Covenant’s
relationships with community partners.

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We are also seeking a new Director of Music Ministries at Grace Covenant.

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• The land that the church is on today on Merrimon Ave was land along a main thoroughfare of trade and travel for the people we know was the Cherokee.
• Merrimon Avenue and Broadway-Lexington Ave were both trails the indigenous communities created and used.
• Not far from where the church sits, At the top of the hill between Merrimon Ave and Lexington is an ancient Cherokee gravesite.
• The Cherokee didn’t believe in owning land—much different that the views of the European colonizers who took it from them and brought the concept of ownership of land
• This church sits in the City of Asheville named in 1797 after NC Governor Samuel Ashe, who never lived here but who enslaved many people to accumulate his wealth and social and political capital in this state.
• Merrimon Avenue is the name of a man who not only enslaved people to generate profit that they did not share in and that they were held captive to secure for his heirs and not for theirs, but his life’s work was to defend and shore up the institution of slavery in order to protect the economic interests of white people. Augustus Summerfield Merrimon (1830-1892), U.S. Senator and Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, wrote, “Slavery has certainly existed from the earliest times down to the present, and it would seem that it is, in one sense, of divine appointment”
• As we gather for worship today, let us remember the history of this land and remember that we are committed to the repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery that authorized the genocide of indigenous people and the enslavement of people for the economic gain of those in power. And all that Christianity was appropriated as a way to authorize the violence.
• This community of faith will not tire in our commitment to healing those deep wounds.
• We acknowledge our complicated and painful history on this land and as Christians in a denomination deeply formed by whiteness.

You can join us in-person or online for Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church worship on Sundays at 10:00 am during the summer.

(Previous worship services and devotionals are also available at this link.)

Email prayer@gcpcusa.org

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• Faith 4 Justice Asheville is faith leaders provoking justice for and with black and brown bodied people through faith and racial equity work.
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