Organizers’ Corner
By James Morgan
Greetings, MOSES members!
I recently had the pleasure of visiting with congregants at Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society, one of our member congregations. My discussion centered on the value of relationships, individual and collective, and how relationship-building is one of the key components in building a base for collective power. I expressed how speaking or thinking about relationships often brings to mind terms like kinship and connectedness, and how there are degrees of relationship: familial, public, etc.
For me as the Organizer for MOSES, building strategic, meaningful, and trustful relationships is imperative in how I think about my responsibilities and duties to our organization. As our President, Saundra Brown, often says, one-on-ones are a key component in building relationships in our organization and in building collective power.
Relationships bring a feeling of community, which keeps us all involved and confident in our contributions to the organization. In relationships, we come to understand that we are not alone in our values, ideals, and principles. Being in relationship with one another gives us the ability to support one another as we tackle difficult issues relating to justice.
The scope of relationships within MOSES, an organization of many faiths and cultures, of people with diverse backgrounds and of different ages, makes us unique in our ability to build collective power to right some of the wrongs that we have chosen to address.
Let’s Stand Together Strong! Let’s Do MOSES!