Do you want to transform your community? Take the Friendship Challenge. In 2016, Senator Tim Scott and Congressman Trey Gowdy began hosting a series of community roundtables, bringing together pastors, law enforcement officers, and administrators to discuss community relations and the similarities and differences among blacks and whites regarding their views of the criminal justice system. In The Friendship Challenge , they apply the lessons they learned and the principles they developed to provide a six-week guide to help individuals and churches promote reconciliation in their communities. Discover how to promote reconciliation-- one friendship at a time. SENATOR TIM SCOTT has made it his mission to positively affect the lives of a billion people through a message of hope and opportunity. He is the first African American elected to both the US House and US Senate since Reconstruction, and he has given a series of powerful speeches on racial reconciliation in the United States. REPRESENTATIVE TREY GOWDY was a state and federal prosecutor before running for 7th Circuit Solicitor (district attorney) in 2000. In 2010, Trey was elected to Congress, where he has served continuously since 2011.