August 24, 2025
Summer Mixtape 8
Keisha’s talk invited the community to reflect on the power of identity and belonging through both her personal story and the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well. She shared her own journey as a biracial woman navigating family, culture, faith, and the many social identities that shape who she is—often asking where she truly belongs. Drawing from John 4, she highlighted how Jesus not only engaged the Samaritan woman but fully saw and honored every part of her identity, placing her at the center of God’s work. Keisha challenged the community to consider the ways we place limits on which identities we deem worthy of belonging and to imagine what it would look like if Jesus met us at the well and named our whole selves with love. She closed with a blessing, affirming that God is big enough to hold every part of who we are, and encouraging us to embrace both our own belovedness and that of others in the family of God.