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These force multipliers for the congregation, by training grace the pulpit with their frequent presence in my absence as pastor. \r\nThe members of Transformation United Methodist Church in Augusta, Georgia, are like ordinary Black folks who face racism pervasively in matters that pertain to banking, real estate, employment, housing, public education, and community development. I have identified a specific problem within this cultural context: our congregation’s lay servants are not preaching racial justice. Instead, they preach about salvation, spiritual well-being, and relevant topics other than racism. They lack the education and training in biblical prophetic consciousness, homiletic principles for preaching racial justice, and the opportunity to practice racial justice preaching with their peer lay servants to prepare for preaching to a congregation. Thus, this racial justice preaching intervention aims to teach and empower these men and women to proclaim, “Thus says the LORD…” and decry racism in all its facets as the eight-century prophets decried the issues of their times.\r\nChapter 1 outlines the project’s ministerial context, problem, purpose, hypothesis, assumptions, and definition of terms. Chapter 2 explores the Biblical framework of the project based on six texts from the eighth-century prophets and the priestly prayer of Jesus in John’s Gospel to aid preachers and lay preachers in addressing racism. Chapter 3 explores the non-theological interdisciplinary study that informs my hypothesis, showing the long and arduous work of the United Methodist Church combating the plague of racism within its ranks and in society. 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Methodism’s Racial Dilemma: The Story of the Central Jurisdiction. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992. Preaching Alcantara, Jared E. The Practices of Christian Preaching: Essential for Effective Proclamation. Grand Rapids: BakerAcademic, 2019. Craddock, Fred B. Preaching. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1985. Harris, James Henry. Black Suffering: Silent Pain, Hidden Hope. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2020. Loveless, William “Can Preaching Change Behavior?” Ministry International Journal for Pastors. https://www.mini strymagazine.org/archive/1998/07/can-preaching-change-behavior. Mitchell, Henry H. Celebration and Experience in Preaching. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990. Moss, III, Otis. Blue Note Preaching in a Post-Soul World: Finding Hope in an Age of Despair. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2015.   Romero, Oscar A. The Violence of Love. New York: Orbis Books, 2004. Petruzzello, Melissa. “John Newton: English clergyman and writer.” Britannica. https://www. britannica.com/biography/William-Cowper. Proctor, Samuel D. “The Pastor and Diversity, Liberation, and Community.” In We Have This Ministry: The Heart of the Pastor’s Vocation. Samuel D. Proctor and Gardner C. Taylor. Valley Forge, VA: Judson Press, 1996. Resmaa, Menakem. My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. Las Vegas: Central Recovery Press, 2017. Ricoeur, Paul. Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation. Translated by Denis Savage. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970. Schade, Leah D. Preaching in the Purple Zone: Ministry in the Red-Blue Divide. New York: Rowman \u0026 Littlefield, 2019.  Stevenson, Dwight E. Preaching on the Books of the Old Testament. New York: Harper \u0026 Brothers, 1961. Thomas, Frank A. How To Preach A Dangerous Sermon. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2018. Racism Brown, Austin Channing. I’m Still here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness. New York: Convergent Books, 2018. Broman, C. L. The Health Consequences of Racial Discrimination: A Study of African Americans. Ethn Dis. 1996:6:148–53. Coates, Ta-NeHisi. Between the World and Me. New York: Spiegel \u0026 Grau, 2015. Cooper, Britney. Eloquent Rage: a Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2018. Crenshaw, Kimberle. “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics.” University of Chicago Legal Forum 8, Issue 1 (1989). Gafney, Wil. “The Atatiana Jefferson Shooting in Fort Worth Shows Black People, Again, That We Aren’t Safe Here.” NBCNews.com. 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Unfortunately, most priests are unaware of this problem that affects our parishioners. While some may scratch it on the surface, others avoid preaching about trauma because they do not know how to address it in their preaching. I developed and tested a program that could help priests in the Diocese of Fajardo Humacao, Puerto Rico, craft and deliver trauma and hope-informed sermons using the narrative preaching approach. The narrative approach affords preachers a wonderful opportunity to communicate the gospel in exciting, new, and unexpected ways.\r\nChapter 1 outlines the project’s ministerial context, problem, purpose, hypothesis, assumptions, and definition of terms. Chapter 2 explores the project’s interdisciplinary framework. It shows how other fields of knowledge, especially sociology and psychology, collaborate with theology to help hurricane trauma survivors. Chapter 3  presents the thesis project’s biblical and theological foundations. 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