Monday November 8, 2021, the Church Auxiliary will meet in the sanctuary at 10:30am.

Auxiliary will present in person and on Zoom Stella Adams, former executive director of the North Carolina Fair Housing Center. Stella is a local civil rights investigator for fair housing trained in mortgage lending investigations. She is an activist who believes in the struggle for Civil and Human rights. Her activism is grounded in the Gospel with these passages serving as measuring rods: Micah 6:8, Matthew 25 31-46, and Luke 1-18.

The twin pandemics of Covid and inequality are foremost in the minds of many US citizens today. Two new books, Caste and The Sum of Us, show readers that inequality rests a great deal on the ability or inability of your family to obtain mortgages, especially in the 50’s. 60’s and 70’s. During that period and continuing to today, most people of color were unable to obtain home mortgages. There were restrictions, housing covenants, and “red lines” that kept black and brown people form owning their homes. Home ownership for whites created whole vistas of support, enabling people to borrow against their home’s equity to start businesses and educate their children.

Please attend in person if you can. The meeting will be live on Zoom plus recorded for later broadcast for those who are unable to attend. Please mask and remain socially distant in the sanctuary.

The program will be followed by a brief business meeting. Attendees and auxiliary members may bring a bag lunch and meet and visit with Ms. Adams after the meeting on the patio.