BMCR TAC
HOUSTON AREA CAUCUS
OUR PURPOSE
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To empower Black Methodists for effective witness and service among pastors, laity in local churches, conferences, schools, and the larger community
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To encourage and involve Black Methodists and others in the struggle for economic and social justice.
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To expose latent and overt forms of racism in all local, regional, and agencies and institutions of The United Methodist Church.
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To act as an agitating conscience on all boards and agencies of The United Methodist Church in order to keep them sensitive to the needs and expressions of a “genuinely” inclusive and relevant Church.
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To keep before the Church the crucial issues facing us by initiating action and supporting Church agencies which realistically deal with the needs of Black people; i.e., issues spelled out in “The Findings of Black Methodists for Church Renewal” and the other occasional documents adopted by BMCR.
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To initiate, develop, and implement strategies and instruments for the development, maintenance, and growth of strong Black local churches.
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To provide an instrument through which we can educate and cultivate the Black constituency of our Church toward a greater knowledge of missions within the U.S., Africa, and the Caribbean.
We, the people called Black Methodists for Church Renewal, Inc., created in the image of God, confess our Faith in a loving and just God. We call ourselves and the entire United Methodist Church to repentance, to rebuild God's Church as a community of faith, to declare the traditions and stories of the Bible and Black culture, to reclaim the black community, and to liberate all people from racism and injustice everywhere.
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PLAN FOR ACTION
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Vital congregations within the Black community will lead the way! Qualities of a vital congregation include prophetic engagement of all God's people, prophetic worship, prophetic pastoral care, and prophetic evangelism. Learnings from the vital congregations and their resourcing of other congregations will be shared with the wider church with the hope that the whole church can be strengthened through this initiative.
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OUR VISION
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A renewed transformed unified body of Christ on a mission in the world.
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OUR MISSION
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The mission of Black Methodists for Church Renewal is to raise up prophetic and spiritual leaders who will be advocate for the unique needs of Black people in the United Methodist Church.
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OUR VALUES
The legacy of BMCR (history, persons, programs, events),
Our Wesleyan heritage of vital piety and social holiness,
Our commitment to developing spiritual and prophetic leaders,
Our relationships within the United Methodist connection; and
Our commitment to inclusiveness and justice.