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Racial Justice TrainingRacial Justice Training Updatefrom Rev. Dr. Jennifer Janzen-Ball, Program Coordinator, Racial Justice Training, The United Church of Canada/L'Église Unie du Canada "I am writing to let you know of plans to offer more racial justice workshops in 2011. My contract ends very shortly, so coordination of these workshops will be done by Stephen Fetter, who works with the Continuing Education portfolio at the GCO. The plan is to offer two online workshops per month from February to June 2011, with a similar format to the workshops offered this fall (ie. two sessions; ministry personnel should participate in both sessions). The conferencing will be done slightly differently, as there is a different system that can be used that allows us to have groups of about 50 and then have people placed into smaller groups of 2-4 to discuss with each other. Stephen and his colleagues will also coordinate the administration related to tracking who has participated and will send that information to the relevant conference office for the personnel files. Recent ordinands/commissionands/recognized DLMs and those who are in theological education currently will also be asked to participate in these workshops. "When it gets closer to June, need for more workshops will be assessed and more could be offered if necessary. "The facilitation of these workshops will be done by some of the racial justice facilitators who have been offering the presbytery/district workshops this year. We have sent out an email asking those who might be interested to be in touch with Stephen and me; they will receive training in January about using the technology. "An email will be sent to those ministry personnel who have contacted me directly about more online workshops (over 100 to date), but if you could please also pass this information to your networks, it would be greatly appreciated. More information about dates and times will be available in January 2011. "in peace," Jennifer Mandatory for Ministry PersonnelMarch/April 2010 Insight Article By Susan Howard "It is necessary to resort repeatedly to stories and personal experience in an attempt to describe the separation by race and the power imbalance inherent in racist behaviour." The Very Rev. Stan McKay in That All May Be One: A Resource for Educating toward Racial Justice, The United Church of Canada, 2004, p. 8. "We are here together." Lorna Pawis, Snapping Turtle Woman, Racial Justice Train-the-Trainers Event, General Council, Toronto, October 28, 2009. For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another..., I will dwell with you in this place..." Jeremiah 7:5-6 quoted in Ending Racial Harassment: Creating Healthy Congregations (The United Church of Canada, 2008), p. 8. Mandatory racial justice training for Ministry Personnel will begin this year. At the 39th General Council meeting in Thunder Bay in 2006, the Council decided that racial justice training would be required for all Ministry Personnel as part of the United Church's efforts to build right relations amongst all peoples. Letters about this requirement were sent from General Council staff person Jennifer Janzen-Ball in December to Ministry Personnel and chairs of Ministry & Personnel Committees. Toronto Conference will be offering four regional events this spring, with training conducted by persons who attended a train-the-trainers gathering last October. Susan Howard, John Lee, Lynella Reid-James and Eleanor Scarlett represented this Conference and will be involved in the training sessions. While the whole of the body of Christ would benefit from racial justice training, the General Council identified the need for Ministry Personnel to be first out of the gate. In Toronto Conference, about 325 Ministry Personnel will be required to take the training. Additional workshops may be needed because of the numbers to be trained. Trainees will be given materials prior to the event where face-to-face learning will take place. Attendance will be taken and personnel files will be updated accordingly. A racial justice training certificate will be provided upon completion of the training. The events will consist of approximately 3 hours of preparation and 3 hours in a workshop format.
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