PeaceBuilding

 

Moore Grace Ministries is a non-profit 501C3 Charitable Christian organization that promotes social well-being for the public good. Its mission is to promote generative peacebuilding for the purpose of human flourishing through strategic projects and services. Pathways for Peace aka Pathways is Moore Grace Ministries’ hallmark project. Pathways is a generative peacebuilding project that promotes community sustainability by bringing communities together that have been separated by trauma heritage to learn, converse, design and implement agreed upon tributes with commitments to ongoing programming. Moore Grace Ministries’ academic partner on the Pathways project is the Preserving Sacred Spaces Initiative that Rev. Dr. Julia Robinson Moore is leading at UNC Charlotte. In addition to the UNC Charlotte collaboration, Moore Grace Ministries has strategic partnerships with Mecklenburg County, NC area Churches, Life Model Works Inc, Thrive Today Inc, SILO AR+D, and various other scholars, vendors, artists, professionals and donors that are committed to community sustainability. In addition to the Pathways project Moore Grace Ministries also provides the below services: 

  • Archival Research

  • Land Radar Mapping 

  • Historic Cemetery Investigation

  • Memorialization Services

  • Preservation Services

The information below is intended to be used to help identify the prerequisites for Moore Grace Ministries to deliver the services listed above. The requisite information will be used to develop a Scope of Work for a Memorialization Project which would drive resources, solutions, costs and timelines.

 
 
 

Archival Research

deliverables

  • Historical and Genealogical Research of Landowner(s), Formerly Enslaved Families, and Churches

Prerequisites

  • Landowner Approval of Memorialization Project investigation via signature from authorized representatives or power of attorney document. 

  • List of:

    • African American Churches in the county. 

    • African American Funeral homes in the county. 

    • Predominantly White Churches in the county. 

    • Access to Landowners’ family history.

 

Land Radar Mapping

deliverables

  • Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Survey and Technical Results of Burial Site

Prerequisites

  • Land Plot Map

  • In writing land access rights granted by current Landowner’s authorized representatives.

 

Historic Cemetery Investigation

deliverables

  • Collaboration & Recommendations on filing Burial Site as Historic Cemetery from North Carolina Office of State Archaeology

Prerequisites

  • Landowner approval and filing for Historic Cemetery via signature from authorized representatives or power of attorney document.

Memorialization Services

deliverables

  • Memorialization design recommendations for Landowner and Descendants of Formerly Enslaved persons to review and approve. Selection of design and construction firms. Design and construction project management services to be defined later.

Prerequisites

  • Multiple collaborative sessions with authorized representatives of the Landowner(s), Churches, Descendants of Formerly Enslaved persons, Vendors, Artists, and Professionals committed to social equity and racial peace.

  • Landowner and Descendants of Formerly Enslaved persons approval to proceed with Memorialization Project Design and Construction requirements via signature from authorized representatives or power of attorney document.

Preservation Services

deliverables

  • Preservation & Maintenance Plan recommendations via PDF document

Prerequisites

  • Collaboration with authorized representatives of the Landowner(s) and Descendants of Formerly Enslaved persons


For more information about the services provided by Moore Grace Ministries send an email to contact@mooregraceministries.com.