The Friendship Challenge: A Six-Week Guide to True Reconciliation--One Friendship at a Time

The Friendship Challenge can help you get the conversation started about bridging the racial divide in your community.

The Friendship Challenge is a six-week guide, helping individuals and groups promote racial reconciliation in their communities―one person at a time, one friendship at a time. The first week prepares individuals and groups to reach out to a person on the other side of the racial divide, whether it is a person at work or in a nearby church. The next five weeks take that small group through a study that fosters true reconciliation―the kind of reconciliation Jesus showed in his own life and death.

Take the Friendship Challenge and spend the next six weeks cultivating true reconciliation in your community.

Do you want to transform your community? Take the Friendship Challenge.

In 2016, Senator Tim Scott and Congressman Trey Gowdy began hosting a series of community roundtables, bringing together pastors, law enforcement officers, and administrators to discuss community relations and the similarities and differences among blacks and whites regarding their views of the criminal justice system. In The Friendship Challenge, they apply the lessons they learned and the principles they developed to provide a six-week guide to help individuals and churches promote reconciliation in their communities.

Discover how to promote reconciliation― one friendship at a time.

SENATOR TIM SCOTT has made it his mission to positively affect the lives of a billion people through a message of hope and opportunity. He is the first African American elected to both the US House and US Senate since Reconstruction, and he has given a series of powerful speeches on racial reconciliation in the United States.

REPRESENTATIVE TREY GOWDY was a state and federal prosecutor before running for 7th Circuit Solicitor (district attorney) in 2000. In 2010, Trey was elected to Congress, where he has served continuously since 2011.