Welcome to our new organizer, Chris Logan!
Chris Logan grew up in Detroit and moved to the Bay Area in 2020 where he served as an organizer for PACT and Sacred Heart Community Service in San Jose. He worked on public safety, alternatives to policing, and affordable housing projects.
Chris received a B.S. in Business Administration from Western Michigan University and an M.Div. from Saint Paul School of Theology in Leawood, Kansas. He wrote his thesis on how the church should desist from its oppression of LGBQTI+ people so that they are free to love God and love their neighbors.
“My faith inspires my work as a community organizer in every way! I believe organizers are prophets. The handbook for organizers is the book of Exodus. The way Moses did it: he organized Israel to move toward a better life. They got hungry and he fed them. It’s hard to do this work if you don’t have faith. It gives me a sense of groundedness. Otherwise you act from a place that’s desperate, emotional. It doesn’t mean you are not agitational, it means you come from faith and not fear.”
He is a part of the City of Refuge UCC community in Oakland and is interested in the Pentecostal movement’s roots in Methodism and concepts of holiness. He also leads faith forums with university students with explorations of the Eucharist, social justice, faith displacement, Baptism, and the sacraments.
“So much of the work we do is sacramental: transforming people who are victims in situations and turning them into agents. That’s what the sacraments are supposed to do. The first revolution is internal. That is the sacramental part of our work.”