After the murder of Ahmaud Arbery came into the public consciousness, the leadership of GCC made a collective effort to not stay silent about Justice and its intersection with the church. Jesus cares about Justice, and he cares about the reality of systemic violence toward our black and brown brothers and sisters in our country and world. With the summer of racial reckoning also came a new vine in the branches of GCC.

The Justice Action Team is a collective of GCC volunteers who committed to come together for 6-8 weeks tasked with creating an action plan that would create priorities for justice work and give recommendations of how to best weave Social Justice into the DNA of GCC for the long term. The group spent the early weeks sharing their backgrounds, their "whys" for joining the team, and hearing each others' stories. In all of these conversations, it seemed there were some themes rising up. With brief and impactful help from a racial equity consultant, Ray, Megan, and Trevor determined these areas of concentration that the collective felt were most important were BIPOC Mental and Physical Health, Education on Racism, and Policy (internal and external).

When Ray, Megan and Trevor communicated these themes with the larger JAT team, an intense and important conversation also revealed the group’s passion around prioritizing relationships as one of the sub-groups. Some members of JAT needed trusting relationships in order to engage in action items, and that others needed to feel a sense of momentum and action in order to trust and have trusting relationships. From this, the fourth “bucket” was born.