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Putting a Human Face on Human Relations Day

January 12, 2010
 
This Sunday, January 17, we celebrate Human Relations Day – the first of six Special Sundays in The United Methodist Church, when special offerings are taken for specific purposes.
 
Human Relations Day was established by the 1972 General Conference to promote support for the Community Developers, United Methodist Voluntary Service, and Police-Community Relations programs. Traditionally observed on the Sunday before the observance of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday (though a local church may choose to observe it on another date), it has a historical relationship to the American Civil Rights Movement by virtue of its support for community development, with its justice and human rights implications. Established four years after Dr. King's death, this Special Sunday provides a method for positive expression by congregations, a means for them to show their support for the values Dr. King exemplified.
 
[Today, although the offering continues to go to Community Developers and Voluntary Service, the Youth Offender Rehabilitation Program has replaced the Police-Community Relations Program – a change made in 1989, in response to the growing population of youth offenders and their need for creative redirection.]
 
This offering is the sole source of support for the Community Developers Program.
 
You may not know much about these programs – or may be unaware of the impact this special offering has had in our own Conference. That's why I've asked our communications office to put a human face on Human Relations Day in Cal-Nevada – and, in fact, on all the Special Sundays this year.
 
(Read complete article here.)
 
 

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