Priority 3

Cultivating relationships for belonging and voice

Cultivar relaciones para pertenecer y tener voz

Belonging and voice are about who is in the room and who is heard. The denominator — who the conference is — is measurable today; the numerator — who leads — is not yet coded.

The line this scorecard takes

The segmentation is the point. A belonging score that rises on average while falling for one group is exactly the failure this priority exists to catch.

Who the conference is (membership composition)

ContextPublic
By race / ethnicity, as reported · 2024
Hispanic / Latino · 14%White · 79%Black · 6%Asian · 1%Native American · 0%
By gender
Women · 58%Men · 42%

Total professing members: 67,179. Race columns are under-reported, so read shares as directional.

Self-reported member demographics from GCFA tables. Race columns are under-reported (not every church codes them), so treat shares as directional. This is the denominator a leadership-representation audit is measured against.

Leadership representation audit

Outcome · laggingPublic
Committees captured16
Leadership seats259
Seats demographically coded0 / 259the gap can't be computed until these are filled
Vacant seats2
The incompleteness is the finding. Crowdsource the demographic coding (per the committee-demographics instructions) to compute the representation gap against membership.

Leadership composition of boards/agencies vs. the membership composition above. The roster is captured (16 committees, 259 seats); the demographic coding is largely unfilled — and that incompleteness is the finding.

Voice Channels

Process · leadingConference
Blank — and that is the finding. Structured channels for lay / youth / young-adult / small-church voice that feed real decisions. Requires governance review.

Belonging Survey

Outcome · laggingSurvey
Blank — and that is the finding. “I feel I belong / my voice is heard,” segmented by demographic. The segmentation is the point — never a single number.
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