Michelle T Sanchez
Michelle is passionate to see disciples be transformed as they transform the world. She serves as Executive Minister of Make and Deepen Disciples for the Evangelical Covenant Church. She has also served on the advisory board of the Institute for Bible reading, ministered to international students with Cru in New York City, and engaged in three global gatherings of the Lausanne Movement. Michelle earned an M.Div. and Th.M. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, completed spiritual direction training at Boston College, and studied the life and times of Jesus at Jerusalem University College. After majoring in international business at NYU, she worked as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs. A regular columnist with Outreach Magazine, Michelle is also the author of a trilogy of books that provide Christ-centered racial discipleship for all ages: Color-Courageous Discipleship, Color-Courageous Discipleship Student Edition, and the picture book, God’s Beloved Community. Michelle and her family live in the greater Chicago area.
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Color-Courageous Discipleship
Follow Jesus, Dismantle Racism, and Build Beloved Community
“A clear biblical theology for why racial solidarity is integral to discipleship—one that is not influenced by the right or the left but by Jesus!”
—Dave Ferguson, Founder of the Exponential Movement & Lead Pastor, Community Christian Church
So you’re for Jesus and against racism. But racism is such a fraught topic—can’t we just talk about Jesus?
Michelle Sanchez has discovered through her own journey that it’s impossible to separate racial discipleship from our relationship with God. What’s more, when we choose to courageously resist racism, we discover opportunities to encounter Christ in fresh and exciting ways!
Whatever your race or background, Color-Courageous Discipleship invites you to experience more of Jesus as you dismantle racism and build beloved community in his name.
**NEW** Bonus Resources Now Available!
- Color-Courageous Teaching Series Outlines
- Presentation Slides
- Children’s Activity Kit
- YouVersion Family Bible Reading Plan
*New* Free Bonus Resources
TEACHING OUTLINES
Invitation to Color-Courageous Discipleship is a five-week teaching/preaching series companion tool for Color-Courageous Discipleship. While this series was created for the Evangelical Covenant Church, it is fully adaptable to take disciples everywhere deeper in the color-courageous discipleship journey.
PRESENTATION SLIDES
Make your teaching and discipleship come alive with the help of these colorful presentation slides designed to accompany the free teaching series Invitation to Color-Courageous Discipleship. These slides are brimming with infographics, illustrations from the book, and gorgeous design.
KIDS ACTIVITY KIT
Designed to complement the picture book God’s Beloved Community, this activity kit includes:
- Color-Courageous Family Bingo Challenge
- Beloved Drawing Activity
- Memory Cards
- My Mini Activity Book for Martin Luther King
FAMILY BIBLE DEVOTIONAL
In this 5-day YouVersion reading plan, families can engage with devotions, prayers, activities, and excerpts from God’s Beloved Community. This plan helps young Bible readers learn about God’s vibrantly diverse creation and strives to help children feel and understand God’s love.
POWER AUDIT PRACTICE
This downloadable PDF handout features a simple spiritual formation practice designed to help you apply the sacrificial love of Jesus Christ to your immediate context – for the sake of building God’s beloved community. Companion tool for Chapter 10 of Color-Courageous Discipleship – Fast (For Real): Sacrifice Your Power to Build Beloved Community.
SNEAK PEEK!!!
Get an extensive free sneak peek of all three books:
Color-Courageous Discipleship
Color-Courageous Discipleship Student Edition
God’s Beloved Community
When you sign up, you’ll receive the first full chapters of Color-Courageous Discipleship plus the first pages of God’s Beloved Community.
Let’s bless beyond any one dimension of the gospel. Let’s bless with the whole gospel – proclamation, demonstration, and reconciliation.
– Michelle t sanchez
Young people’s passion for racial justice can lead us all forward—but they need deep discipleship…I want the diverse teenagers you and I care about most to be trained by Michelle. Her fresh scriptural insights and practical ideas will help this generation be on mission with Jesus and courageously bring healing to our world.
Kara Powell
Executive Director, Fuller Youth Institute
The future is young, urban, and multiethnic. If we want to participate in what God is doing in his church, these are essential conversations we need to have. Michelle beautifully guides us in how to integrate a more holistic gospel to reach this next generation with and for Christ.
Tommy Nixon
CEO, Urban Youth Workers Institute
By working through Color-Courageous Discipleship Student Edition, you can gain a deeper understanding about issues of race and move from a posture of fear and avoidance to one of courage and engagement.
Helen Lee
Speaker and Author, The Missional Mom and The Race-Wise Family
written By MICHELLE T. SANCHEZ illustrated by camila carrossine
God's Beloved Community
God created a world filled with vibrant variety—and called it good! Now God calls us to move from being color-blind to color-brave—and to proclaim with him how precious all people really are.
This book takes young readers on a biblical and historical journey to learn more about beloved community. Drawing on the vision of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., it explores how we can create communities filled with God’s love as we delight in our differences, stand up to bullying and unfair rules, and declare with our lives and our love that everyone matters to God.
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Free Kids Activity Kit
The color-courageous kids activity kit is designed to help children and families build God’s beloved community together. Perfect for use in Sunday school, family devotions, or as a way to celebrate Martin Luther King Day, Juneteenth, and other cultural heritage months through a faith-based lens. The kit includes:
Color-Courageous Family Bingo Challenge
Drawing Activity: Illustrate God’s Beloved Community
Color-Courageous Memory Cards
“My Mini Book for Martin Luther King Jr.”
Latest Events
SEPTEMBER 2022
IFFEC Worldwide 2022 • Marathon, Greece
Plenary Session
IFFEC is the International Federation of Free Evangelical Churches. IFFEC is a growing global network of 24 national churches, united in Christ to glorify God by serving member federations as they equip and develop healthy churches.
october 2022
BLESS In Living Color Conference • Virtual
Plenary Session: Color-Courageous Discipleship
Join the movement to BLESS our world in living color as we Begin with prayer, Listen with Care, Eat Together, Serve in Love, and Share God’s Story.
November 2022
Mosaix Conference • Dallas, TX
Plenary Session Engagements • Color-Courageous Discipleship
The Mosaix National Conference represents the epicenter of a now 20-year and still growing movement in the United States and beyond to establish healthy multiethnic and economically diverse churches for the sake of the gospel.
December 2022
New Thing Chicagoland Movement • Chicago, IL
Plenary Session • Color-Courageous Discipleship
New Thing Chicagoland is a multicultural church planting and multiplication movement devoted to multiplying throughout greater Chicago.
MARCH 2023
Theology in the Raw Conference • Boise, ID
Plenary Session
To be a Christian is to be an exile. As exiles living in Babylon, disciples need to think biblically and Christianly through cultural and political issues. Join us for this year’s Theology in the Raw conference, Exiles in Babylon.
april 2023
Missio Alliance Conference • Chicago, IL
Breakout • Color-Courageous Discipleship
The Awakenings Gathering, sponsored by Missio Alliance, is a brave space to have hard conversations that will awaken the Church. Disruption is a necessary element in all creative formation; it precedes renewal. Gather with us in Chicago as we lean into the Spirit’s rebirth of the Church in our day.
