Faithful Action Leadership Council Application Draft JN 3 25 15.pages

FIRST UNIVERSALIST
FAITHFUL ACTION LEADERSHIP COUNCIL APPLICATION
Applications must be received by June 30, 2015. Submit to: [email protected]
If you submit an application and do not get a confirmation within 2 days please contact Justin.
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Your name:
Home phone number:
Work phone number:
Mobile/cell phone number:
Email address (optional):
What year (approximately) did you join First Universalist?
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Please answer the following questions. We appreciate a brief response; you may use additional paper if
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Please describe your past involvement with First Universalist. What roles have you had with faithful
action and/or racial justice work or learning opportunities?
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Please provide other professional, volunteer, or leadership experience that you feel is relevant to the
Faithful Action Leadership Council (FALC) in social justice and/or racial justice work.
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Please describe your goals related to this position. Why are you interested in becoming a member of this
group? What do you hope to contribute?
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How are racial justice and faithful action work part of your faith/spiritual journey?
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How might we as a church effect systemic change while also serving immediate needs?
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Please read and affirm the guiding principles for the FALC (below).
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Briefly state what they mean to
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Guiding principles of racial justice!
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• We are choosing to focus on the social construct of race. Racism is a fundamental component
of every social and environmental justice issue.!
• Racism exists when a dominant group with institutional and cultural power denies and extracts
resources from a non-dominant group. !
• Racism is morally incompatible with our faith.!
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Guiding principles of faithful action ministry!
• Racial justice is primary in all that we do. All of our faithful action efforts will be implemented
and evaluated through a racial justice lens. !
• We achieve a balance between advocacy/systems change and attending to immediate needs.!
• We work through partnerships.!
• We learn from the lived experiences of people of different backgrounds.!
• We support our volunteers in understanding their experiences through the lens of race, racism
and whiteness. We support our volunteers in leadership development and spiritual growth.!
• We engage with stakeholders and make room for stakeholder leadership (i.e. the people that
we serve or partner with). !
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• We balance our desire for focus and consistency with our desire to be responsive and nimble. !
• We provide transparent, clear, ongoing communication with the congregation, faithful action
teams/groups and with our partners and community stakeholders.!
• We evaluate our effectiveness and we celebrate. !
• We encourage opportunities for the whole church to be involved across ages and abilities.!
• We connect all efforts to Unitarian Universalism and our faith. Be clear about how our efforts
are rooted in our faith and explore how they inform our spiritual journey.!
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