BUF Black Lives Matter Ministry Action Team
Minutes of March 1, 2021 Business/Planning Meeting
The meeting, on Zoom, began
at 6 pm. Present were: Mike Betz, David Curley, Barbara Gilday, Tom Kirschner,
Cat McIntyre and Henry Ohana.
Anti-Racism Minutes:
March
7 Henry Ohana
March
14 Cat
McIntyre
March
21 Mike Betz
March
28 David Curley OR someone from
Covenant of Beloved Community
(Forum
meeting to be held Thursday, March 4)
Program Planning:
March
8 - Reparations. The GRACE group plan 45 minutes of presentation on
HR 40 followed by 45 minutes of Q&A. The Seattle group asked
whether they can invite other interested parties from Bainbridge Island and
Mukilteo. We agreed this is fine.
April
12 – Henry volunteered to coordinate a program on Rev. William Barber. David
will assist.
Other
future program ideas: Rebecca Parker, a well-known author. David may
coordinate.
Beloved Conversations
2: The Board has
assigned $1000 for anti-racism training. They have questioned whether the Beloved
Conversations in same format is the best. Inside evaluations of Beloved
Conversations 1 were completed by each BC group and sent to Fahs Collaborative.
Each group also met at the end of the program to evaluate their group
experience. Finally, all the groups met together to create a “to do” list,
which is now part of the Covenant of Beloved Community tentative action
plan. One item on the Beloved Conversation 1 “to do” list was
passage of the 8th Principle, which has been successfully
achieved. We will assemble some of the evaluative materials
already mention to form an evaluation of Beloved Conversations 1.
Cat suggested we might also
explore local resources for anti-racism and ally-ship training from
BIPOC. An example is Kim Harris, Distinctive Voice Consulting. All
of us will do some research on her group, including references from previous
groups she trained, and report at the April business meeting.
Phone Tree. Cat sent out a request to the primary
callers asking them to test their list and inform us of any revisions needed.
Only one person has responded, Judy Fruhbauer. Others will make sure they do
their part.
Next Business Planning
Meeting: April 7, 6 pm
Next Program
Meetings: March 8, 7 pm and April 12, 7 pm.
Respectfully submitted
Cat McIntyre, co-facilitator
