As we commemorate the lives ruptured by the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, we are also prompted to consider what does ministry in the Black Church look like for youth and young adults, especially Black girls and children who are queer? How might we wrestle with the ways the churches have supported and failed black children? How might we develop forms of pastoral care that offers redress to the current state of youth ministry? Through a lunch conversation sponsored by Andover Newton Seminary at Yale, the Black Church Studies Program, and the Yale Youth Ministry Institute, Dr.Dr. Kishundra King (YDS ’15), and Rev. Whitney Bond will offer paths, prompts, and prophetic witnesses that students might implement in their ministerial toolkit. The proposed conversation will be supported and moderated by Dr. Almeda Wright.