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In 1997, a small group of mostly rural, Southern, African American church leaders and allies from Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas whose places of worship were reduced to ashes by arsonist roaming the South torching churches “just for the thrill of it” established the National Coalition for Burned Churches. The Spirit of the Living God inspired us to come together as a faith based response to the 1996 church burning crisis. We are a multi-racial, interfaith coalition of clergy, laity, partners and friends who work diligently to provide on going support to today’s survivors of church arson.
Our mission is to protect the right of congregations to worship in peace: free from the threat of arson, bombing and vandalism through programs in public education, awareness, research, victim support, church rebuilding and volunteer coordination and community leadership development.
Board of Directors
Rev. Terrance G. Mackey, Sr , Charleston, SC
President & Executive Director
Rose Johnson– Mackey, Charleston, SC
Rev. Dan Donaldson, Humboldt, TN
Cathleen Traylor– Dublin, GA, Treasurer
Wynetta McCoy, Fairbanks, AK
Carolyn Singleton, Charleston, SC
Mary Brown, Charleston, SC
Rev. Charles Brown, Charleston, SC
Rev. Daniel Wilborn, Opelika, AL
Rev. Waldo Campbell, Joiner, AR
Mar Quia Del Ray, Atlanta,GA
Funders and Supporting Partners
American Baptist Church National Ministries Unit USA
The Ford Foundation
21st Century Foundation
The Funding Exhange
Southern Partners Fund
General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church Women’s Division
United Methodist Church Volunteers in Mission
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
Harvard Alternative Spring Break Program
California Arson Rebuild Team
St. Isidore Catholic Church
Millbury Federated Churches
First Congregational Church
UNC at Chapel Hill Alternative Spring Break Program
United Church of Christ Justice and Witness Ministries
Universal Loss Consultants
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