Racial Reconciliation Design Team:
I am welcoming you to the Task Force on Racial Reconciliation in the South Carolina Annual Conference. No committee could address the entire sweep of what might fall under the rubric "racism," but focus on one small subset of the problem that has a peculiar bearing on United Methodist in South Carolina. It has been argued that in America the most segregated hour
of the week is 11:00 a.m. on Sunday morning. I am not sure if that is true, but it may well be. This claim results in repeated calls for reconciliation, repentance, hard love, forgiveness, forbearance, sacrificial love, renouncing the past, and much more. This task force/committee/team referred to here forth as The Racial Reconciliation Design Team (RRDT) will seek to respond to the will of the Conference Connectional Ministry Leadership Team and the Advocacy Areas ministry. The purpose of the task force is as following:
1. Identifying the persons and groups they need to hear from (for example, the colleges mentioned in the motion, BMCR, local church laity, etc.)
2. Propose a plan that will help congregations to work together around the issues of racism in their own communities
3. Develop this plan and report back to the Connectional Ministries leadership team by Nov 15th
4. Pilot this plan during the Spring (Lent)
5. Report the results to 2015 AC with a plan for implementation in the following year
The RRDT Racial Reconciliation Design Team members at current include:
Rev. Amiri Hooker
Rev. Bernie Maczyk
Mr. Doug Markham
Rev. Tiffany Knowlin
Rev. Paul Harmon
Mrs. Joanna Donegan
Mrs. Frances Hill
Rev. Ryan Spurrier
Rev. Genova McFadden
