Reconciling Works

ReconcilingWorks wants to celebrate with your faith community and is excited to offer these resources. Many RIC communities celebrate RIC Sunday on the last Sunday in January. This year, that lands on January 26, 2025. ReconcilingWorks encourages you to celebrate on a date that is meaningful for your community. Be sure to use this day as a time to recommit to your partnership as a RIC faith community, discern ways to live into your RIC partner commitments, and set new milestones for the year to come.

ReconcilingWorks is excited to announce that the Reconciling in Christ (RIC) Sunday Worship 2025, Resilient Community is here!

Resilient Community - This year’s theme allows us to celebrate how far we all have come in difficult times while also reminding us we need to keep moving toward the goal of true inclusion. It focuses our attention on how community bonds and relationships sustain the individual members of the community, building resilience in institutions and individuals. When we work together for justice, communities are stronger; when we work together, people are stronger.

While this worship service primarily uses the acronym LGBTQIA+ or uses language that specifies identities and orientations when referring to people most of the time, you will also find the word “queer” employed as a more universal identifying term. As you adapt and shape the materials to fit your context and worship styles, please feel free to use whatever language and labels are considered the norm in your community but also be mindful of those for whom the word “queer” remains harmful.

Reconciling in Christ (RIC) Sunday is an annual worship celebration created to share in the commitment our organization and partnering faith communities have in the ongoing work of welcome, inclusion, celebration, and advocacy for LGBTQIA+ people in the life of the church. While historically this day is celebrated on the final Sunday in January, many RIC partners will celebrate on their date of affirmation, or on other days meaningful to their communities rooted in this commitment to radical hospitality. We hope you enjoy Resilient Community as we join collectively with our 1,140+ partners across the United States and Canada through this celebratory service.

As special thank you to our planning team, Rev. Josh Evans, St. John’s Lutheran Church, Albany, New York; Rev. Dr. Lori Ruge-Jones, University Lutheran Church and Campus Ministry, Eau Claire, Wisconsin; and Deacon David Rask Behling, Program Coordinator