Stories from Break With a Purpose ~ Justyna Jakacki, Dawn Drake, and Aaliyah Golden-Whitehead

Speakers: 0:0) Justyna Jakacki: "Filled With Rage, Sustained By Hope" 3:25 Dawn Drake: "The Cross" 6:45 Aaliyah Golden-Whitehead: "The Challenge of Loving Others" Read all ten reflections from the BWAP 2026 team at preshouse.org/engage/bwap. Text: Ephesians 2:11-22 (NRSVUE) 11 So then, remember that at one time you gentiles by birth, called “the uncircumcision” by those who are called “the circumcision”—a circumcision made in the flesh by human hands— 12remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us, 15abolishing the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, 16and might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it. 17So he came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near, 18for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, 20built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone; 21in him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.