Imani Institute
Twyla Griffin, Chair
Recardo Solomon, Vice-Chair

The institute interfaces with education and youth. The youth director will re-establish and redevelop our Rites of Passage Programs. The Institute will educate the congregation about the significance of African-American culture and history.

The Imani Institute will provide an interface with the Biblical Institute by sponsoring a joint lecture series on Blacks in the Bible.

It will educate the congregation about the importance of Kwanzaa and will incorporate into the church's working calendar regular observances of significant dates in African-American History. For example, the Emancipation Proclamation should be a day of observance for African-American people. The institute will work diligently to apprise the congregation of such important dates so they might be regularly included in the church's celebration¬observances calendar.
The Institute will sponsor or co-sponsor a pilgrimage to African, wherein the newly initiated Rites of Passage candidates and their sponsors will travel to the motherland for a culminating rites ceremony.

Regular pilgrimages to Africa can be sponsored by Imani Institute, Missions and Education. Establishment of the regular quarterly lecture series, which will provide the congregation with vital information on African-American heritage, history and culture.

Incorporation of Kwanzaa into the worship service celebrations during Advent, should be done with the support of the worship committee

Development of a committee of persons willing to orchestrate the various programs of Imani, are highly expedient. A committee should therefore be convened.

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