NBCC Leadership Commission Teams Forming Now!
NBCC announces a major new initiative in 2005; we
will develop and train leadership commissions for each of the NBCC's eight
core principles. We need your prayerful discernment in order to identify
persons with the experience and talents to make these commissions succeed.
For details, please read on!
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Why this initiative? At its ninth
national meeting in 2002, the National Black Catholic Congress approved
a Declaration of Principles and corresponding
Plan of Action.
Over the past year, we surveyed diocesan offices nationwide to identify progress
and obstacles in implementing the Plan. We reported the survey results to
the NBCC Board of Directors and in the September edition of The Black
Catholic Monthly. That report remains available on our website (see:
Progress on First Year Goals of the Pastoral Plan of Action).
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We learned from that study that many
dioceses have made substantial progress on many parts of the Plan. We
also heard, repeatedly, that dioceses and parishes need materials and
models to help them implement the action steps. For example, many people
said they were not sure where to get Afrocentric Scripture study guides
or HIV-AIDS information appropriate to a young, Black, and Catholic
audience. They explained that they cannot wade through volumes of
available information on contemporary Africa, just to devise suitable
materials for parishioners' education.
What will Leadership Commissions Do? To
respond to the clear need to make the Action Steps easier for overworked
and under-resourced clergy and lay ministers to enact, the NBCC Board of
Directors and Staff are initiating leadership commissions for each of
the eight NBCC principles. Each commission will develop usable models
and materials for implementing the Plan of Action and then help raise
awareness of the models and materials and become resource persons for
parishes and dioceses who decide to use those models and materials.
To create effective commissions with a
shared vision of their goals and approach, the NBCC will bring newly
appointed commission members together for a three-day conference,
professionally facilitated by Chris Easley, Ph.D. In 2005, this
conference will occur in place of the annual NBCC Convocation and the
Lay Leaders Workshops. The NBCC will pay for meals and all study
materials for the meeting, although, as with the annual Convocation and
Lay Leaders' workshops, participants will be responsible for their own
travel and accommodations.
Guided by trained facilitators, participants
will use the principles and methods of Appreciative Inquiry to analyze
the challenges to implementing a particular principle in our communities
and to identify effective strategies for moving forward.
Nomination Process: You may nominate
yourself or someone else, using the attached form. Nominations should be
submitted by January 17, 2005 (Martin Luther King Jr. holiday) to the
NBCC. Email your completed application form to:
nbcc@nbccongress.org or mail
to: NBCC/ Leadership Commissions/320 Cathedral Street/ Baltimore
Maryland/ 21201.
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