Understanding Racial and Social Privilege in Mission Relationships

1. Perceive the power!Understanding racial and social privilege in mission relationships Brought to you by Presbyterian World Mission www.missioncrossroads.org

2. Welcome! • Monthly Webinars: www.missioncrossroads.org • Using your phone or joining online? • Speakers: • Ms. Kristin Hamner, Mission Co-Worker in the Dominican Republic, serving as a Self-Development of People Partnership Facilitator; • Ms. Veeda Javaid, Executive Director and Ms. Sana Tariq, IT Assistant of the Presbyterian Education Board of Pakistan, a PC(USA) global partner; and • The Rev. Hardy Kim, former Young Adult Volunteer to Northern Ireland, currently Associate Pastor for Church Growth at First Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia.

3. Today’s Webinar • Power dynamics and mission relationships • Naming power dynamics • How power is used • Power in mission relationships • Your questions and comments • Prayer

4. Naming power dynamics • On the surface: • Country of origin • Resources/access to resources • Education • Color of skin • Physical characteristics • Physical ability • Language • Accent • Religion • Hidden agendas • Motivations

5. How power is wielded • Decision-making • Horror stories • Positive uses of power • Recognizing local partners’ strengths • Ways to do work of God together • Seeing one another’s strengths • Finding ways in which both cultures, both experiences can “shine” and teach one another • Focus on relationships, not results

6. Positive uses of power Julia Cristofer

7. Ways to do work of God together

8. Power in mission relationships • Thoughtful engagement: • Short-term mission – when we don’t have time to develop relationships with trust and honesty • As those “sent” • Motivations and hidden agendas • Desire to help • Willingness to be transformed • Naming identity & power • self-examination • self-awareness • Being an outsider (you’re not at home)

9. Resources • Eric. H. F. Law, When the Wolf Shall Dwell With the Lamb: A Spirituality for Leadership in a Multicultural Community. (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 1993). • Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” http://www.case.edu/president/aaction/UnpackingTheKnapsack.pdf • Books by Kikanza J. Nuri on cultural proficiency: http://www.kikanzanurirobins.com/newsletter.htm • Jonathan J. Bonk, Missions and Money: Affluence as a Missionary Problem. (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2007). • Duane Elmer, Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility. (Downer’s Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2006). Look esp. at chapter 12 “The Servant and Power.”

10. Resources • An annotated bibliography compiled by Douglas A. Foster on “Racial Reconciliation and Raising White Consciousness of White Privilege” from Christian Standard Magazine, 2009. http://www.christianstandard.com/pdfs/20_Foster_WEBonly2.pdf • “Truth and Wholeness: Replacing White Privilege with God’s Promise.” A leader’s guide developed by The United Methodist Church General Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns and the General Commission on Religion and Race. Meant to accompany a DVD on the same subject, but helpful as an independent tool. http://www.gccuic-umc.org/index2.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=31&Itemid=235.

11. Thank-you! • This Webinar was recorded • Links to the recorded Webinar and a document with resources listed herein will be posted within the “Webinars” tab of Mission Crossroads: www.missioncrossroads.org/webinars.htm • Join us next time! • Questions or comments? Contact Ellen Sherby, ellen.sherby@pcusa.org, 1-888-728-7228, ext. 5539 • Prayer

12. Our panelists Ms. Veeda Javaid, Executive Director, PEB, Pakistan Ms. Sana Tariq, IT Assistant, PEB, Pakistan Rev. Hardy Kim, Associate Pastor, FPC, Atlanta, Georgia Ms. Kristin Hamner, Mission Co-Worker, Dominican Republic