Anti-Racism Common Table

Description

Anti-Racism Common Table

Key Points 

The Anti-Racism Common Table will offer feedback, advice, and suggestions for concrete ways The United Church of Canada can live out its National Anti-Racism Action Plan and further deepen the United Church’s commitment to becoming an anti-racist denomination.    

Vacancies: 6 vacancies 

• 4 appointed by the General Council Executive  
• 2 appointed by the National Indigenous Organization 

Experience: Lived experience or a background with anti-racism and justice work. Good communication, animation, or analytical skills along with skills in interpersonal relations, group conflict resolution, understandings of racial trauma, and ability to work in the midst of cultural diversity.  

Meeting expectations: 1 in person during the 3-year term, 3–4 online annually. Additional working group assignments as needed. 

Mandate 

The Anti-Racism Common Table will envision ways for The United Church of Canada to continue to live into its anti-racism commitments. The mandate for this committee has been re-imagined and updated.   

The focus of this group is not necessarily on detailed or specific local anti-racism activities; rather, the focus of the group is primarily on big-picture thinking and continuing to shape the denomination's commitment to becoming an anti-racist church.   

The Anti-Racism Common Table is accountable to the Executive of General Council (GCE), and it will offer the GCE updates on its ongoing work.   

Membership 

The committee will be made up of eight members—Indigenous, racialized, and White. Ideally some of the members will be past participants in the United Church’s Indigenous and Racialized Youth program.   

Member Skills and Experience 

We are seeking people who have experience with anti-racism work, intercultural engagement, or Indigenous justice, whether through volunteering, employment, education, and/or lived experience. Members will have good communication, animation, or analytical skills and have strong skills in interpersonal relations, group conflict resolution, understandings of racial trauma, and working in the midst of cultural diversity.   

United Church Relationship: Active participant 

Appointment term: May 2026–August 2028 (46th General Council), with the possibility of reappointment for a second term of three years 

For more information about this volunteer opportunity, please see the complete description, below.

To Express Interest

To apply for this vacancy, please use the appropriate online form to nominate someone or express your own interest: 

For appointments to be considered by the GCE 

For appointments to be considered by the National Indigenous Elders Council 

All submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail. If you do not receive acknowledgement, please contact Member Engagement. Incomplete or late submissions cannot be considered.

For further information or assistance in expressing interest or nominating someone, please contact:

Member Engagement
Toll-Free: 1-800-268-3781
E-mail: 

Downloads

• 45-23 Anti-Racism Common Table.pdf (205.43 KB) (PDF)