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GA99075 
23-June-1999 
 
              Facing Racism Paper to Go to Assembly 
 
FORT WORTH-"Facing Racism:  A Vision of the Beloved Community" will be 
before the General Assembly when the National and Social Issues Committee 
presents its report later this week. The paper presents a sevenfold 
churchwide strategy involving the General Assembly, synods, presbyteries, 
congregations, educational institutions, related agencies, and ecumenical 
partners in dismantling racism.  
     If the Assembly approves the recommendation, "Facing Racism:  A Vision 
of the Beloved Community" will be distributed throughout the denomination, 
staffing and funding will be provided for its implementation, and the 
General Assembly will assume an antiracism identity and encourage governing 
bodies and congregations to do the same.  Training resources will be 
developed and made available, and antiracism entities will be formally 
recognized at subsequent Assemblies   . 
     The recommendation commends the Presbyterian Health, Education, and 
Welfare Association for offering workshops on racism, Presbyterian Women 
for making racism a priority concern, and the Presbyterian Peacemaking 
Program for addressing racism as an ongoing part of its ministry.  
     Other matters that the committee is taking to the Assembly include: 
    *  recommendations for addressing the problems of prostitution, 
stereotyping on the basis of sexual orientation, religion, and Native 
American ethnicity, and hate crimes, 
    *  a recommendation encouraging the adoption of older and special needs 
children, 
    *  support for quality, desegregated education for children, 
    *  annual opportunities for congregations to hear from racial ethnic 
minority preachers. 
 
Nancy Rodman 

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