Race, Culture, and Immigration (Precious Kufarimai)

In this powerful reflection, Precious Kufarimai, a 26-year-old Zimbabwean-American and second-generation immigrant, shares her deeply personal journey of navigating race, culture, and belonging within the Church.

She challenges the Church to move beyond cultural comfort to embrace the fullness of Christ’s Kingdom, where every skin tone, accent, and story has a place. Precious calls for the Church to listen deeply to immigrant stories, expand leadership to include diverse voices, and repent of racial and cultural biases that fracture the Body of Christ. Ultimately, she offers a vision of the Church as a place of radical belonging, where layered identities are honored as gifts and communities reflect the beauty of Revelation 7:9’s vision of “every nation, tribe, people, and language” worshiping together.