Prayers for the People: Min. Katrina Zezza, Freedom Church of the Poor 1/19/25

Integral to the organizing and social change work of this movement is an understanding of praxis and leadership. As leaders of poor people’s organizations, we learn through leading and lead through learning, knowing that our actions in movements for justice teach, learn and develop other leaders. Jesus led in much the same way. As the leader of a poor people’s movement, Jesus linked teaching, leadership, and action. The liturgical season of “Learn as We Lead” acknowledges the necessity of education and leadership in building movements of the poor and dispossessed, throughout Scripture, throughout history, and in our work today. The biblical passages and devotional reflections offered in this liturgical season exemplify the organizing work of learning as we lead.