Conference-Wide Bible in a Year Reading
The Northern Illinois Conference Committee on Discipleship and Spiritual Formation is launching a conference-wide initiative for 2026 inviting individuals and congregations to read the e…
TASK LIST
- Ask your pastor, a family member, or friend to pray with you as God guides you in discernment.*
- Familiarize yourself with the Glossary of Terms from Allies for Change*
- Sign up for daily prayer emails on Anti-Racism from Discipleship Ministries*
- Review and participate in the UM Stand Against Racism Initiative
- Attended the NIC Martin Luther King, Jr. Day service (1/19/20)
- Attended 1st Quarter District Training which included Anti-racism Training
- Attended the NIC Laity Convocation 2020 “Unpacking Racism” (2/8/20)
- Watch NIC COVID-19 in Communities of Chicago (5/14/20)
- Watch NIC Reflections on Racism & Religion (6/4/20)
- Watch GCORR panel videos
- Watch this YouTube video, then take the Harvard Implicit Bias Test (Race, Skin Tone, Native, Asian). Note: understand that all human beings have bias and your results do not reflect on you as an individual.
*Required
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