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Originally Posted by bishoph
AB gave the solution! As a pastor I made sure that visible leadership was diverse. It will not happen by accident, the pastor always practices what they really believe in this matter, and the church follows. If a pastor lives in an area where there is great diversity he must take steps to develop leaders representative of that diversity who are visible viable leaders not just token members. When this is done, people who come will recognize someone like them who is truly a part of the vision of the church and they will feel much more comfortable coming on board.
I have purposely recruited or elevated blacks, hispanics, and asians for key leadership positions in the church, which always resulted in a multicultural church.
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Bishop, I completely agree with you. Unfortunately, my experience doesn't work out quite the same. I am on the Board for Emmaus. We got some complaints not long ago because we don't have anyone "of color" (their words, not mine) on the board. I asked what they would like us to do and was told that we should make sure that next time we have elections, we have several people of color running for the positions. So now it's time for elections. We have 5 positions open. 4000 members in this organization. And we've made more phone calls than I care to count. Not one person of color was willing to say "yes" to running for the Board.
If they had agreed to run, it is a given that they would have gotten on the Board. We have 5 positions open and only 5 people running for those positions. It seems NO ONE wants to be in leadership
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