Eliminating Racism in the Next Generation

We give thanks for the lasting legacy of offering childcare across racial, socio-economic, and family backgrounds at Second Pres. Last Sunday, we celebrated this ongoing mission through our developing partnership with the Sprout School of the YWCA. The Sprout School shares a similar vision Second Pres had for childcare over 40 years ago: offering a safe space where children from all over the city are cared for and loved, despite the ways our society divides our community. Celebrating this important mission reminds me of another childcare advocate, Marian Wright Edelman, who said,
     “So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.”
At Second Pres, we strive to care for all God's children, for they all belong to God, and we belong to each other. Thanks be to God!

The Second Presbyterian Church Sprout School continues this critical legacy built over the last decades through the service of so many at the Second Presbyterian Church Childcare Center. View this presentation by Kathleen Eastman, Senior Director of Early Childhood Education at the YWCA to learn more about how the Sprout School is eliminating racism in the next generation by integrating income levels through intentional funding structures and enrollment percentages.

“It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.”    ― Marian Wright Edelman