The Healing Project

2020 is a year filled with anxiety, grief, and tragedy. We are simultaneously dealing with a historic global pandemic; racial reckoning; political upheaval; and our own personal worries, losses, and stresses. But as people of faith, we live with hope. Please join the Center for Black Church Studies for a seminar to help our community with tools for working through these uncertain times. This workshop will have a self-care skill-building component and also small group time to share testimonies and to pray. Rev. Maureen Gerald, MDiv '06, and Rev. Rashad Grove, MDiv '19, will lead us in moments of sharing and testimony and help us direct our minds to optimism and healing.

Rev. Gerald has been highly academically and professionally trained at the College of St. Elizabeth, Columbia University, and Princeton Theological Seminary. She is a credentialed counselor, coach, and spiritual director with more than 20 years of experience in the mental health field. Gerald is the Founder and CEO of Momentum Counseling, Coaching, & Consulting LLC, a successful private practice located in Princeton, New Jersey, providing holistic mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness. Her community of clients includes adults, adolescents, members of the LGBTQ community, married couples, and families, and she specializes in issues of anxiety, anger, PTSD, defiant behaviors, women’s issues, sexual identity, depression, and complicated grief.

Rev. Grove is the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Wayne and is a sixth-generation Baptist minister. He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Empire State College and Princeton Theological Seminary. He received a Certificate in Black Church Studies and a Certificate Women, Theology, and Gender. While at Princeton Seminary, he received the prestigious The Matthew Anderson, Jonathan C. Gibbs, John B. Reeve Award by the faculty of the Department of History and Ecumenics. As a public theologian, Rev. Grove’s work has been featured in numerous publications. In his work as a TV, film, and music journalist, he has appeared on BET, Billboard, MTV News, The History Channel, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Hip-Hop Collective at Harvard University, and many others. He has served on the board of directors of the Philadelphia Baptist Association, the oldest Baptist association in the country.

This event is virtual and free but registration is required. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining this event.

All are welcome.