Welcome to the Bridgetown Church podcast.

For the month of November, we are honoring Indigenous Heritage Month.

Each week, members of our Church family will be sharing stories that acknowledge and celebrate

Indigenous heritage from their lived experiences to the world at large.

Hello everyone, thank you for listening to the Bridgetown Church podcast.

For the past six years, we have been on a journey of racial reconciliation in our Church

family.

We have become awake to the myth of a post-Racial America and we, even more, have discovered

the multi-ethnic identity of our Church family.

To that end, we want to grow into the multi-ethnic, multicultural family of God by celebrating

our unity in diversity.

This podcast is one part of that journey.

Through acknowledgement of the past, we want to grow an empathy to the people around us,

the people that we call family.

In this conversation, we are going to be learning about the pains of the past for Indigenous

peoples in Oregon and discuss a vision for the future.

My name is Tyler Hands, Creative Director and Member of the Racial Justice Committee here

at Bridgetown.

I'm Matt, I live in Portland and I've been working in the family law and juvenile justice

arena for about 15 years.

My name is Tavathaliti and I attend Bridgetown Church.

I'm also a member of the Wiat tribe.

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