BHM Against the Wall Weekend

You are invited to join our campus community for this weekend’s “Against the Wall” programs.

This Against the Wall weekend begins our Andrews University Black History Month celebration. The theme for Black History Month 2018 is As It Is In Heaven: The Politics of Jesus. For more information on this year’s celebration and events, visit our webpage to view the full schedule of events.

Against the Wall is a movement created by Michael Nixon, Ty Gibson and other committed followers of Jesus who are motivated to speak with passionate clarity against walls of racial separation that exist across the globe, walls that can be found both inside and outside of the Adventist Church. As a result, Against the Wall doubles as a metaphor to help indicate that this movement’s members are opposed to walls of racial separation and, in turn, that they stand in solidarity with those who find themselves oppressed by these walls of racism.

Both Gibson and Nixon believe that the Against the Wall movement strives to be about love rather than hate, reconciliation rather than division, courage rather than cowardice and clarity rather than ambivalence.

Against the Wall believes, and we here at Andrews University agree, that the Gospel of Jesus Christ does show us the way to racial justice and reconciliation. In the book of Ephesians, Paul says this about what Christ accomplished on the cross: “For Christ Himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in His own body on the cross, He broke down the wall of hostility that separated us” [Eph. 2:14, NLT].

"We still serve a God who can break down these walls of hostility, and it is our prayer that we may all move one step closer to truth, healing, equity, reconciliation and transformation through the power of Christ’s unfailing love," says Nixon.

For more information on the Against the Wall movement, see againstthewall.org/who-we-are/.

February 1

• 11:30 a.m., PMC: University Chapel, Michael Nixon

February 2

• 7:30 p.m., HPAC: Lighthouse Vespers, Ty Gibson

February 3

• 9 a.m. & 11:45 a.m., PMC: Dwight Nelson
• 10 a.m. & 11:45 a.m., One Place in Newbold Auditorium: Ty Gibson
• 11:45 a.m., New Life in the Seminary Chapel: Timothy Nixon
• 4 p.m., Newbold Auditorium: The AGORA