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ADVOCACY RESOURCE TEAM

This team supports and cares for ministry functions such as Social Justice and Advocacy, Ecumenical and Interfaith Concerns, Monitoring for Inclusiveness, Combating of Racism, Sexism and other forms of Oppression, Ethnic Community Concerns and the providing of Diversity Training and Consultation. It also supports the District Lay Academies in teaching the United Methodist Church's Social Principles so that more pastors and laity understand what the UMC stands for and also what it is against.

The chairperson of this team is Rev. Tom A. Pasmore, Jr.

The Advocacy Resource Team relates to the following Boards and Commissions according to the Book of Discipline:

                 Christian Unity & Interreligious Concerns

     Church and Society Concerns

     Ethnic Local Church Concerns

     Pacem in Terris

     Religion and Race Concerns

     Status and Role of Women Concerns

ART will provide grass-roots community organization around social concerns that affect our communities within our annual conference. The methods will include town meetings, ethnic minority dialogue, intra-net communications, and racial hate crimes response teams. The team will also resource clergy and laity with training events and celebrative occasions to address racial and gender justice.

ADVOCACY RESOURCE TEAM MEETING DATES AND TIMES 2009-2010

     ART MEETINGS                                                 WORK/MINISTRY TEAMS
                                                   2010
January 21             7 p.m.                                                 February
March 11                2 p.m.                                                April
May 13                  7 p.m.                                                 June
July 8                    2 p.m.                                                 August
September 9          7 p.m.                                                October
November 11         2 p.m.                                                December

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