Our Story

The Atlanta spa murders which occurred on March 16, 2021, were a wake-up call for many of us in the Asian American community of metro Atlanta. This painful incident of anti-Asian hate was a close-to-home example of the increase of anti-Asian racism that we’ve been seeing across the U.S. since the COVID pandemic began. This event became a call to action to not be silent, disconnected, and invisible any longer.

Since then, we have gathered several times for prayer and worship and to tell our stories, beginning with a gathering on Buford Highway at the end of March 2021: a Remember and Renew event on the one-year anniversary of the spa shootings and an AAPI History event in May 2022.