Training Event: Building a Multicultural Church:
Applying What We Have Learned
When: Saturday, May 21, 2022
Time: 10:00am - 12:00noon
Where: via ZOOM
Registered persons will be sent the ZOOM link by e-mail. There is no charge for participation.
Persons who register but are unable to attend the ZOOM training will be provided access to a recording of the event to facilitate their participation.
Building a Multicultural Church: Applying What We Have Learned will review basic concepts covered in the previous Cultural Competency Forum sessions and will offer a model for application in the local context. Case studies will be presented to practice application in three church types.
The Cultural Competency Forum is a platform for training and practical application designed and created to realize the objectives of the 2019 Resolution on Anti-Racism Training, which called for intentional anti-racism training for conference clergy and leaders.
The Cultural Competency Forum is a two-year program of training and practical application structured to provide essential and continuing education with which clergy and congregations will gain awareness, build knowledge, acquire skills and form attitudes that will equip them to become culturally competent. This will provide a core of knowledge and skills for persons to progress further and participate in later Cultural Competency Forum training to teach interested persons skills for teaching cultural competency to local churches and other in settings.
Persons who register but are unable to attend the ZOOM training will be provided access to a recording of the event to facilitate their participation.
Past and future Cultural Competency Forum Presentations
Bridging the Gap: A training on Internalized Oppression and Cultural Competency, Held September 10-11, 2021, at Pine Lake Camp
Module 1: Background and Foundational Concepts.
Session 1: Becoming a Culturally Competent Congregation Held October 2021
Session 2: Reducing Bias and Prejudice in Congregations Held November 2021
Session 3: Reconciled Churches Held January 2022
Module 2: Power, Internalized Oppression & Cultural Competency Held February 25 & 26 2022
Session 1: Exploring Cultures Held March 26, 2022
Session 2: A Critique of Power and Internalized Oppression Held April 23, 2022
Session 3: Multicultural Congregations: A Model for Application May 21, 2022
Cultural Competency Training June 13, 2022
Dialogue for Mutual Sharing, inquiry and Support July & August 2022
Please e-mail or text your comments and questions to Lamarr V Gibson:
Phone: (608) 509-6832
