Threaded

For years, Threaded has been bringing people together across racial and cultural differences. But we’ve always believed those relationships were meant to lead somewhere. Now, we’re beginning to see where.

We’re stepping deeper into the final part of our strategy: planning and executing action. Years of reorienting conversations around race and building relationships across differences are creating opportunities for productive coalitions that can move together toward meaningful change.

Right now, Threaded is helping develop a new coalition called Belong McKinney, an interfaith, intercultural, and interracial coalition cultivating belonging in McKinney

Through our coalition-building work, Threaded is raising $50,000 to launch Belong McKinney, a long-term effort to make McKinney one of the most welcoming and connected communities in America.

Beginning with a citywide listening tour and a community-created mural and celebration will bring neighbors together to build relationships, collect stories, and help us discover what belonging requires in our city. Those relationships and stories will guide us toward our first major goal: creating one lasting, systemic bridge that helps people across McKinney connect, participate, and belong.

Because in a divided world, belonging doesn't happen by accident. We have to build it.

ABOUT THREADED

Like a beautifully woven tapestry's array of colorful threads reveal the creator's artistic imagination, Threaded dreams of creating communities that display God's cross-cultural imagination. An imagination exhibited through the local ethnically diverse Body of Christ relationally weaving themselves into collaborative outworkings of their unique God-given gifts for lasting community transformation, repair of injustice, and flourishing for all peoples. 

In the next 20 years America will become a minority-majority country. This change has and will continue to spark culturally motivated social eruptions, revealing historical tears and creating deeper divides in our society and the Church. If not handled quickly and well, these eruptions will cement divides and the marginalization produced by the long history of racial division. 

Inspired by Christ's reconciling ministry, we aim to unleash a network of cross-cultural community weaving individuals, churches and community coalitions who foster unity amidst diversity, champion justice collaboratively, and confront injustices at their roots.