Grace and Peace!

I am Rev. Chantilly Mers. I am grateful you stopped by!

For the past fifteen or more years, I have served and loved the Church as a community pastor, music and song leader, faith and justice educator, activist, retreat leader, and equity consultant. My roles have allowed me to design and create sacred spaces, to build bridges, and animate conversations that groups, churches, and organizations otherwise would not have.

Of all the roles I have held, I am at heart a keeper and practitioner of Circle, an Indigenous and ancient pattern that has held communities for generations.

I am passionate about the ways we as kin gather to speak and listen with wide open hearts. In a fracturing society, many living at the edge of eco-devastation and isolation, I am passionate about re-membering in our bodies and bones what it feels like to belong to one another and the Earth.

This practice of radical togetherness in the belly of systems and structures that harm and exclude, is to awaken what is ancient in all of us - our innate kinship and communal identity - that to me is the hope of the “kin-dom of God.”

I hope you might join me.