Journey to Harmony

Movie Discussions

Sundays, April 7–28, 10:30am, Sandberg Chapel

Let’s learn and lament from our past and heal our present so we can forge a better future together in Christ Jesus.

Watch movies during the week as an individual, Life Group or with your friends and then come together to discuss them on Sunday. Open to ages middle school to adult.

April 7: Amache
(Free: PBS, YouTube)
After the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941, roughly 110,000 Japanese Americans were relocated to internment camps across the United States. Colorado Governor, Ralph Carr, fought to bring a camp to Colorado, where he felt its internees would be safe from harm. The Granada Relocation Center, more commonly known as Amache, held 7,567 internees, making it the tenth largest city in Colorado.

April 14: Loving
PG-13 (Rent/buy: Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube) 
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the supreme Court’s historic 1967 decision.

April 21: Cesar Chavez
PG-13 (MAX, Rent/buy: Amazon Prime, Apple TV)
Chronicling the birth of a modern American movement, Cesar Chavez tells the story of the famed civil rights leader and labor organizer torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. His triumphant journey is a remarkable testament to the power of one individual's ability to change the world.

April 28: The Hate U Give
PG-13 (Rent/buy: Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube)
Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds: the poor, mostly black neighborhood where she lives and the rich, mostly white prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend, Khalil, at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right.

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