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Religion and Race and the ethnic plans to design materials and a process to: a. Train the local church that is receiving a pastor of other ethnicity, race and culture; b. Train the local church council/board and SPRC on best practices to improve cross-cultural communication and conflict resolution. c. Resource the local pastor being appointed to a church with a majority culture, race or ethnicity different than their own with curriculum, sermon series, and best practices to help them in their new appointment. d. Provide training in intercultural competency to all candidates to licensed and ordained ministry while at the licensing level. The training of new District Superintendents, Bishops, and Conference Staff will include a component of intercultural competency. ADOPTED 2024
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3335. Reparations WHEREAS, reparation by definition means making amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged; WHEREAS, reparations for slavery is not a new concept to America, General William T. Sherman first proposed it at the conclusion of the Civil War. He issued a Special Field Order 15 that would confiscate a strip of coastline property in Charleston, South Carolina to St. John’s river in Florida of approximately 400,000 acres. This property was to given to newly freed African-American families in 40-acre increments, there were also unneeded mules to be given, hence the term “40 acres and a mule.” The order was overturned by President Andrew Johnson after the assassination of President Lincoln; WHEREAS, at the dawn of this country, Black reparations were actively considered and often effected. Quakers in New York, New England, and Baltimore went so far as to make membership 348