National Summit on Mass Incarceration and Social Justice
October 28, 2026 – Pre-Summit Intensive Reception & Learning
October 29 – 31, 2026 – National Summit
#BeTheHOPE: Building Beloved Community is a 2 1/2 day summit designed to equip clergy and community with the tools to restore lives and transform communities. In addition, this event offers a Pre-Summit Intensive and Dinner which starts October 28th at 5pm. The intensive will dig deep into a topic designed to equip participants with tools around a specific policy and prospective legislative actions for their community.
Beloved, the tine is now. The church cannot remain silent while millions of individuals, families, and communities continue to bear the weight of mass incarceration and social injustice.
Since 2015, the National Summit has gathered pastors, faith leaders, advocates, returning citizens, and community partners from across the nation to learn, organize and build ministries that restore lives and strengthen communities.
Now is the time of action! We invite you to join us in Atlanta, Georgia – a city whose legacy of faith, justice, and beloved community continues to inspire movements around the world.
This National event will impart best practices, fresh ideas, and vital connections to prepare you and your team for the work in your own setting.
Why Attend?
Together we will explore and learn: Faith-based responses to mass incarceration and reentry, restorative justice and healing communities, advocacy and public witness, ministry models that can be replicated in local churches, economic empowerment and what second chances really look like, interfaith collaborations for justice and transformation, and more.
This is more than a conference. It’s a collaboration, a call to action – an opportunity to learn from one another and return home equipped to make a lasting impact in your congregation and community.
In a time marked by division and uncertainty, the church is called to do more than observe the pain of the world – we are called to embody hope.
Join us as we declare and decree – #BetheHOPE: Building Beloved Community.
The work is urgent. The moment is now.
Come to Atlanta. Bring your Church. Bring your ministry team. Bring your passion for justice.
Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of a transformative movement. Register today and share this exciting event with others who are passionate about making a difference!