{"id":602,"date":"2020-06-03T22:50:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T22:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bowery.org\/updates\/?p=602"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:12:27","slug":"standing-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bowery.org\/updates\/2020\/06\/standing-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing Together in Pain &#038; Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Bowery Mission community,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bowery Mission stands daily with neighbors who are experiencing homelessness, hunger, and trauma, deepened by historical and ongoing systemic racism. We mourn with the Black community as we remember and bear witness to the killing of George Floyd and far too many others. <strong>Lives are at stake \u2014 lives that matter to God and to us.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more than two months, the streets around The Bowery Mission\u2019s Tribeca campus were quieter and emptier than usual \u2014 the result of social distancing, in the wake of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past few days, those same streets have filled with crowds of New Yorkers, bearing witness to racism \u2014 and the trauma it perpetuates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crowds bear witness to the way this racism destroys some (chanting, \u201cI can\u2019t breathe\u201d) and is ignored by others (chanting, \u201cSilence is violence\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crowds bear witness to the names of lives that matter \u2014 Black lives lost to violence in this season of great loss \u2014 Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This has been a season of great loss, and I know many of us are experiencing deep pain, grief, lament, and rage. And some of us are not experiencing these feelings in the same way. Racism and trauma do not affect our communities equally. At The Bowery Mission, we see these realities daily as we serve a community experiencing homelessness deepened by a legacy of systemic marginalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An Invitation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my fundamental beliefs is that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">our God gathers us<\/span>.&nbsp;It is not accidental that God has gathered this community around The Bowery Mission \u201cfor such a time as this.\u201d God has chosen us to stand together during this season of loss. We are God\u2019s gifts to one another \u2014 for this very season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have seen God draw us closer to one another in the past few weeks. As we have done essential work together \u2014 working on the front lines and supporting from home \u2014 I believe God is forging a new community for the next season of The Bowery Mission \u2014 forged in the fire of this pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this in mind, I invite you to be a gift to one another in this season. I hope that we will be able to say to one another, \u201cI need to talk about this,\u201d and then gather willingly for honest conversations. I hope that we will listen deeply to one another. I hope that we will make safe spaces for one another\u2019s grief, lament, and rage. I hope that we will uphold one another in prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are committed to working together to make sure The Bowery Mission is a place where our decision-making reflects our diversity and honors the lives of our staff, volunteers, clients and guests. We look forward to doing this work with you; it will take all of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for standing together, even in our unequal pain and loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bowery.org\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/JWsignature.png\" alt=\"James\" style=\"width:174px;height:61px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>James Winans<br>President &amp; CEO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Bowery Mission community, The Bowery Mission stands daily with neighbors who are experiencing homelessness, hunger, and trauma, deepened by historical and ongoing systemic racism. We mourn with the Black community as we remember and bear witness to the killing of George Floyd and far too many others. 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