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Ideas for Action

Resist Harm offers these additional ideas for your use. They came from a broadly representative group of United Methodists who gathered after the Special General Conference. While the list is not exhaustive, we hope they will be helpful as you plan. They reflect the diversity of contexts around the connection.
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Invite WCA members to dinner at your church with LFTBQI persons.

Send (positive, message-rich) cards and letters to WCA leaders and followers.

“Each one Reach one” – inclusive folks reach out to traditionalists one-on-one.

Flood the WCA Facebook with loving Resist Harm messages.

Fill the phone lines of WCA affiliated Bishops and other leaders with respectful Resist Harm messages.

Call out the WCA — make them nervous.

Crash a WCA meeting.

File charges against the WCA and WCA leaders on January 2.

Hold Vigils of Resistance at prominent WCA Churches on January 2, with acts of forgiveness for the WCA. Rise above the hurt and damage to live out “When they go low we go high” and “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”

Circle WCA churches singing and praying for (their) conversion.

Add a million addresses to IRD and WCA mailing lists (but never open) in order to raise their mailing costs.

Fill WCA churches with people who are LGBTQI+ on a given Sunday

Take the Resist Harm message to headquarters of WCA, Good News, IRD and Confessing Movement.

Hold a prayer vigil at WCA churches.

Pray for the WCA.

Send letters to WCA and Central Conferences to create relationships.

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