{"product_id":"gods-beloved-community-isbn-9780593193884","title":"God's Beloved Community","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis children's book from the author of \u003ci\u003eColor-Courageous Discipleship\u003c\/i\u003e makes the God-inspired dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., accessible to all, helping kids and parents answer God's call to move from being color-blind to color-brave.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGod created a world filled with vibrant variety—and called it good! From flamingos and crows to shooting stars and rainbows—to all our different shades of hair, eyes, and skin—God declared it all very good. Now God calls us to resist racism and proclaim with him how precious all people really are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith lively rhyming text, this book takes young readers on a biblical and historical journey to discover more about beloved community. Drawing on the biblical vision of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it explores how we can create communities filled with God’s love as we delight in our differences, stand up to bullying and unfair rules, and declare with our lives and our love that everyone matters to God.\u003cb\u003eMichelle T. Sanchez\u003c\/b\u003e, MDiv, ThM, is the senior discipleship and evangelism leader of the Evangelical Covenant Church, a vibrant multiethnic denomination of more than 875 congregations. Michelle completed seminary degrees at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and spiritual direction training at Boston College. She speaks frequently at conferences and other gatherings and is a regular columnist with \u003ci\u003eOutreach Magazine.\u003c\/i\u003e Michelle has enjoyed crossing colorful cultures in thirty countries and territories around the world. She and her husband, Mickey, live with their two children in greater Chicago. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCamila Carrossine\u003c\/b\u003e lives in São Paulo, Brazil. She has been drawing ever since she was a little girl, first on the walls of her bedroom and now on the pages of books. With a degree in fine arts, she considers herself a visual storyteller and loves to mix traditional and digital techniques in her illustrations. When she’s not illustrating children’s books or working on animated films, she loves reading, traveling, and walking barefoot.\u003cbr\u003e One snowy day, when I was at school, \u003cbr\u003ewe learned of Martin Luther King. \u003cbr\u003eWe heard him speak a courageous dream \u003cbr\u003ewith the power to change everything. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome say Pastor King’s dream was color-blind, \u003cbr\u003eignoring our eyes, hair, and skin, \u003cbr\u003eand looking only at what’s inside, \u003cbr\u003ethe content of character within. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut at church, we learned his dream was bigger, \u003cbr\u003ethat Jesus can set us all free \u003cbr\u003eto be not color-blind but color-brave, \u003cbr\u003ea beloved community. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou see, Pastor King believed in God, \u003cbr\u003ea God made completely of love, \u003cbr\u003ewho’s writing a story more colorful \u003cbr\u003ethan anything we could think of.","brand":"WaterBrook Children's","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303305662693,"sku":"NP9780593193884","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593193884.jpg?v=1767728261","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/gods-beloved-community-isbn-9780593193884","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}