Racial Justice Work in the Minnesota Conference

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* 1. Name your congregation

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* 2. Email address (this will be shared with the Amos Task Force)

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* 3. What social justice ministry/ministries in the local community is the congregation involved with?

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* 4. Given the legacy of racism in the United States, if your congregation is engaged in social justice ministry, then you are likely engaged in ministry that intersects with anti-racism work. Is this intersection being acknowledged, addressed, and if so how?

Yes

How?

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* 5. Within the local church, does the congregation embody anti-racism practice, and if so how?

Yes

If yes, how?

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* 6. Do you collaborate with someone or some organization in the local community in the work of anti-racism? If so, who?

Yes

Who do you collaborate with?

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* 7. How might you represent the congregation's placement on a continuum toward becoming a multicultural, inclusive, diverse, antiracist community? Mark those characteristics of the stage that describe where the congregation is.

Has not formally begun to define how to proceed in addressing institutional, cultural, and personal racism.

Has begun the journey of awareness in aspects of what it would mean to be a multicultural, inclusive, diverse, antiracist community.

Has begun to address issues of denial in being inheritors of legacy of historic racism and of the minimization of racism in everyday life.

Has begun a process of inquiring into how historical racial bias and practices and cultural racism may exist in the church's institutional practices.

Has formally begun to change institutional practices toward greater multicultural and diverse, and antiracist perscpectives and inclusion in congregational life.

Can name specific changes in institutional practices, sermon content, worship styles, congregational education, beyond-the-walls outreach, collaborative practices, and such that mark notable degrees of "acceptance" and "adaptation" toward becoming a multicultural, diverse, inclusive Beloved Community.

Racial Justice Work in the Minnesota Conference

Question Title

* 1. Name your congregation

Question Title

* 2. Email address (this will be shared with the Amos Task Force)

Question Title

* 3. What social justice ministry/ministries in the local community is the congregation involved with?

Question Title

* 4. Given the legacy of racism in the United States, if your congregation is engaged in social justice ministry, then you are likely engaged in ministry that intersects with anti-racism work. Is this intersection being acknowledged, addressed, and if so how?

Question Title

* 5. Within the local church, does the congregation embody anti-racism practice, and if so how?

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* 6. Do you collaborate with someone or some organization in the local community in the work of anti-racism? If so, who?

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* 7. How might you represent the congregation's placement on a continuum toward becoming a multicultural, inclusive, diverse, antiracist community? Mark those characteristics of the stage that describe where the congregation is.

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* 8. Is there anything else that you would like to tell us about your congregation's journey toward racial justice?