A celebration of the Juneteenth holiday hosted by the Naming, Claiming, and Acting the Change (NCAC) team will be held on Friday, June 19 starting at 4:00pm. You can participate in-person at Sanford Campground (3500 N West River Rd, Sanford, MI). This is the opening day of the family camp at Sanford Campground and dinner options will be available at the canteen following the event.
You can also view the event online via Zoom by registering at this link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Pk_JZXq4S9WxKgj2W8t8cQ
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NCAC is the Michigan Mission Center Diversity Team appointed annually by the mission center president for the purpose of gathering resources, collecting data, sharing recommendations, advising mission center staff and ministry leaders, providing educational materials, and pursuing projects that support and encourage efforts to enhance and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in mission center ministries and congregations.
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From www.congress.gov/crs-product/R44865
Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. It is also known as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Juneteenth Independence Day, Black Independence Day, and, by statute, Juneteenth National Independence Day.
On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, TX, and announced the end of the Civil War and the end of slavery. Although the Emancipation Proclamation came 2½ years earlier on January 1, 1863, many enslavers continued to hold enslaved Black people captive after the announcement. Juneteenth became a symbolic date representing African-American freedom.
Juneteenth became a federal holiday on June 17, 2021. All 50 states and the District of Columbia recognize Juneteenth as a holiday or observance, and at least 31 states and the District of Columbia have designated Juneteenth as a permanent paid and/or legal holiday through legislation or executive action.
