![By Infrogmation of New Orleans (Photo by Infrogmation (talk)) [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Roch_Cemetery_Merci.JPG)
New Orleans: Saint Roch Cemetery
By Infrogmation of New Orleans (Photo by Infrogmation (talk)) [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Reach out to work with area churches, synagogues, and mosques to organize a holiday food drive.
Reach out to invite members of the Black Community to a special Welcome celebration for Advent.
Reach out to work with local synagogues, mosques, and churches to develop solutions to the world problem of hunger and malnutrition.
Reach out to invite members of the Black Community to organize a Black Catholic Respect Life Prayer Vigil during Respect Life Month. 
Reach out to members of the community to gather together to watch and discuss coverage of Pope Francis’ tour of the Americas.
Reach out to invite members of the Black Community to celebrate Catechetical Sunday and learn about “Safeguarding the Dignity of Every Human Person.”
Reach out to work with area churches to organize a community-wide voter registration drive.
Reach out to invite members of the Black Community to a prayer vigil/day of prayer to pray for an end of violence in our community, our nation, and our world.
Reach out to invite members of the community to take the St. Francis Pledge in support of caring for God’s creation.
Reach out to invite members of the Black Community to a prayer vigil/day of prayer for African Americans imprisoned and on Death Row.
Reach out to create a study group to discuss ways and means to help end human trafficking.
JESUS MAFA. Jesus as a child in Nazareth, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN [retrieved June 14, 2015].
Reach out to children of the Black Community to participate in the summer vacation Bible school.
Reach out to the wider community to take part in the Fortnight for Freedom: Freedom to Bear Witness, a commitment to remain faithful to the teaching of Jesus in the face of persecution by political power.
Reach out to work with area churches to recruit volunteers to visit prisoners.
![JESUS MAFA. Pentecost, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48388 [retrieved May 17, 2015].](https://projectreachoutpromisingpractices.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/mafa056-medium.jpg?w=300&h=198)
JESUS MAFA. Pentecost, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. [retrieved May 17, 2015].
Reach out to members of the Black Community to ask for input for a summer vacation Bible school program for the community.
Reach out to the wider community to prayerfully discuss the study-guide The Racial Divide in the United States: A Reflection for the World Day of Peace 2015.
![By Harry Walker [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bell-shaped_flowers_-_Easter_Lily.jpg)
Bell-shaped flowers – Easter Lily, 1910-1940
By Harry Walker [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Reach out to alcohol and drug addicts in the Black Community by welcoming various support groups to your parish community.
Reach out to your community to open a discussion on the importance of religious liberty.
Gertruda Domayo, Tanzania
CRS, Stories of Hope
Reach out to the poor in Africa by joining the CRS Rice Bowl initiative.
Reach out to serve simple Lenten meals to the poor in your community.
Reach out to members of the Black Community to create and participate in a special Lenten Scripture study program from an Afrocentric perspective.
Reach out to family, friends, and your community to pray together during Lent.
Create a prayer group for Lent and reach out to promote racial healing using these resources:
Lent: Time for Racial Healing
Lent: Time for Reconciliation with God and My Neighbor
All the “signs of the time” point to the necessity of a “family coming together, a family time of prayer.” So much seems to happen to us when we are apart from each other. We get so caught up with “the everyday challenges and trying to make it every day” that we forget about the strength we gain from each other when we “tighten up in prayer and touch each others lives for more than a minute.” Let’s show some love for we need some face time with each other. Let’s take a new “Family Photo” so that a legacy of hope, faith and courage can be left for those who come after us.
On Sunday, February 1, 2015, the first Sunday of Black History Month, let us put out an all points bulletin throughout the United States that we are having a national Family Reunion. A National Day of Prayer for African American and African Family 2015!
It’s about us, helping us, praying for us, and celebrating the many times that God “caught us and kept us.” Click here for more information.
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