Co-Facilitator of Sacred Pursuits: Let’s Talk About White Privilege, September 2017

Using the UCC curriculum for initiating discussion among white people about white privilege, my husband and I led a six-week series at First Congregational Church of Fresno. We had 96 people at our first session, which became a robust group of 40 through the rest of the six sessions.

• Witnessing in the Public Square to God’s redeeming power.
  • Responds to local and global evens and provides prophetic leadership in affecting systemic change
  • Speaks truthfully to and about systems of oppression and interpersonal behaviors of bias.
  • Accesses and promotes use of resources on social justice and advocacy.
• Working collabroatively with intercultural awareness and sensitivity.
  • Understands power dynamics and dominant privilege.
  • Appreciates the gifts of diverse persons and works cooperatively across cultures and generations.

Camp Director, Camp Tamarack Junior Camp | More Years Than I Can Count

As a co-director of junior camps, listening to both what is working and is not working for the staff and campers is key. Keeping enough space in the schedule for the Holy Spirit to surprise us is key to my style of camp leadership. How else would we have ever discovered the joys of “mud ball”??? Camping at Tamarack is an opportunity for kids to disconnect from their devices and connect with God’s world in a very dusty, rustic way that you just can’t get on the Valley floor.

• Empowering the Church to be faithful to God’s call, reflective of Christ’s mission, and open to the surprises of the Holy Spirit.
  • Takes initiative in leading.
  • Leads by framing a vision in community.
  • Motivates others to test and share in a vision and to work toward its realization.
  • Demonstrates flexibility and a spirit of discernment.
• Strategically creating the future of God’s Church.
  • Exercises effective and adaptive leadership.
  • Models interdependence.
  • Assesses needs; plans, implements and evaluates ministries to meet identified needs; and continues to improve the future of those ministries.
• Performing Necessary and appropriate administrative tasks.
  • Delegates and lifts up the gifts of others.

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