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Kansas East council director given
Center for New Community award

by United Methodist News Service

	Dale Foshee, Council on Ministries director of the Kansas East Conference of
the United Methodist Church, recently received the first annual "Building 
Democracy Award" from the Chicago-based Center for New Community.
	The center, established in 1994, describes itself as a "faith-based,
rural-urban organization whose mission is to revitalize congregations and
community for genuine social, economic and political democracy."  The center
seeks to educate, train and organize religious and community leaders about
religion-based hatred and bigotry.
	Fooshee became director of the Kansas East Council on Ministries in 1994 and
is one of the few lay people holding such a position throughout the church.
He was cited by the Chicago group for his work in countering far-right
movements in the Midwest. "As both a farmer and church leader . . . he worked
closely with churches, farm and rural organizations in Kansas and across the
region to educate and train leaders and to organize effective counter-action
as the far-right swept into the heartland on the heels of the worst economic
crisis in agriculture since the Great Depression," the center said in a
statement.
Fooshee received the award during a "Building Democracy Conference" Dec. 6-8
in Chicago. Participants from 16 states attended the meeting, which offered
workshops on a range of topics, including the white supremacist movement,
neo-Nazis and racist skinheads, the Ku Klux Klan and cyberhate.
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