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Title: Becoming a MultiRacial, MultiCultural Congregation


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Reality or Fantasy?  
  • Becoming a Multi-Racial, Multi-Cultural
    Congregation
  • Annette Marquis, District Executive
  • Thomas Jefferson District
  • Unitarian Universalist Association

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A Litany of Restoration by Marjorie
Bowens-Wheatley
  • If, recognizing the interdependence of all life,
    we strive to build community, the strength we
    gather will be our salvation.
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  • If you are black and I am white,
  • IT WILL NOT MATTER.
  •  
  • If you are female and I am male,
  • IT WILL NOT MATTER
  •  
  • If you are older and I am younger,
  • IT WILL NOT MATTER.
  •  
  • If you are liberal and I am conservative,
  • IT WILL NOT MATTER.
  • If you are straight and I am gay,
  • IT WILL NOT MATTER.
  • If you are Christian and I am Jewish,
  • IT WILL NOT MATTER
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  • If we join spirits as brothers and sisters,
  • The pain of our aloneness will be lessened
  • And that does matter.
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  • IN THIS SPIRIT, WE BUILD COMMUNITY and MOVE
    TOWARD RESTORATION

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What is a multi-racial, multi-cultural
congregation?
  • A congregation where no one racial group
    comprises more than 80 of the membership

Michael Emerson, United by Faith
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Common comments about a becoming MR/MC
congregation
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VISION STATEMENT of theMIDDLE COLLEGIATE CHURCH
  • Adopted March 6, 2005 by the Middle Collegiate
    Church ConsistoryMiddle Collegiate Church is a
    celebrating, culturally diverse, inclusive and
    growing community of faith where all persons are
    welcomed just as they are as they come through
    the door. Rooted in Christian tradition as the
    oldest continuous Protestant Church in America,
    Middle Church is called by God to boldly do a new
    thing on the earth. As a teaching congregation
    that celebrates the arts, our ministries include
    rich and meaningful worship, care and education
    that nurture the mind, body and spirit, social
    action which embraces the global community, and
    participation in interfaith dialogue for the
    purpose of justice and reconciliation.

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Assessing Your Readiness
Developed by the Rev. Dr. Curtiss De Young,
professor of Reconciliation at Bethel University
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Demographics
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History/Tradition
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Leadership
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Leadership
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Congregational Culture
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Congregational Culture
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Worship Experience
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Educational Programs
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Outreach Efforts
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Resources
  • UUA Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression, Multicultural
    (ARAOMC) Resources
  • http//www.uua.org/leaders/leaderslibrary/araomc/
    index.shtml
  • DRUUMM, a UU People of Color org.
  • http//druumm.org
  • Allies for Racial Equity, a UU white allies org.
  • www.uuallies.org

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Church Websites
  • Middle Collegiate Church
  • http//www.middlechurch.org
  • Davies Memorial UU Church
  • http//www.dmuuc.org
  • All Souls, Unitarian
  • http//www.all-souls.org
  • First Unitarian Church of San Jose
  • http//sanjoseuu.org

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