Called to Witness

Called to Witness is a five year strategic plan to equip, encourage and empower Reconciling volunteers across Annual Conferences as they build relationships across ideological and theological divides. Called to Witness is predicated on the understanding that people don’t change their minds, until they know people’s stories. By reaching out and building relationships, we will create change one person at a time! Listen to a story on YouTube.

The 2008-2009 Campaign: All Means All

This year RMN is inaugurating the second phase of the Called to Witness campaign, entitled: All Means All.

Campaign Goal:

The campaign goals focus on engaging people in advocating for the Constitutional Amendment on Article IV, (“All Means All”) in 35 mission Annual Conferences.

The campaign goals include empowering Reconciling volunteers to:

• Build Relationships
• Tell Our Reconciling Stories
• Advocate for Full Inclusion
• Organize Strategically

Campaign Actions:

• Train 750 Reconciling Volunteers
• Sponsor 35 All Means All Declarations signed by 375 local congregations
• Host 70 District Forums
• Organize 1000 individual meetings with Annual Conference delegates across the country.

Results

Campaign Results (.pdf)

Signed All Means All Declarations

All Means All Declarations (.pdf)

Amendment 1 Vote Counts

Spreadsheet (.pdf) with unofficial vote counts.

The 2007-2008 Campaign

Last year, leading up to General Conference the inaugural Called to Witness campaign:

• Organized 22 Annual Conferences
• Trained 501 Reconciling Volunteers
• Sponsored 20 Group Meetings with General Conference Delegations
• Facilitated 453 General Conference delegate contacts

• 200 personal meetings
• 253 individual letters

Volunteers served as missionaries to their General Conference delegates, building relationships, telling their personal stories and urging delegates to vote for full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) persons at the 2008 General Conference.