About

In 2016, Jimmy McGee, President and CEO of The Impact Movement, attended a story workshop with The Allender Center. With the backdrop of heightened racial tension and increased mental health struggles on campuses and in churches, the two organizations began to have conversations about what it could look like to eventually partner together. The vision that took root was an alliance that would produce growth in both partners; that Impact might add story work to its repertoire of cultural competency work and campus ministry and that TAC might employ Impact's resources to hone its skills in the realm of racial trauma.

Over the next few years, dozens of Allender Center staff attended Impact's Cultural Competency Training, while dozens of Impact staff attended the Allender Center's Story Workshop. Together the two organizations co-created "Race, Trauma and the Gospel," an immersive experience in racial trauma. Recently, the two organizations collaborated to craft "Collective Trauma & the Gospel," a joint program that offered a cohort TACs 2 year training on Narrative Focused Training Certificate alongside a parallel 2 year immersive racial trauma curriculum. 

The Hope and Anchor weekend is a continuation of an initial desire to bring the landscape of storywork and trauma care more fully into the campus ministry space and into communities of color, while inviting our white brothers and sisters to a deepened understanding of the landscape of racial trauma and resilience.

Learn more about The Impact Movement here.