Global Integrity Day--9 June 2022

Into Integrity
Special News and Events

Live in integrity--Unite for integrity
#HealUsToo  --  #MyOrganizationToo  --  #PetraPeopleNet

“These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other
and render true and sound judgment in your courts; do not plot evil against each other,
and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord…
Therefore love truth and peace.” Zechariah 8:16,19

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Warm greetings!

Into Integrity Update
The Into Integrity FAST, involving 40 days of food fasting and hunger striking, featuring special podcasts and blogposts, was launched June through December 2019. We continue FAST via the ongoing call for the assistance and integrity of specific Christian organizations, leaders, and people affected by the international Nordic Capital investment KB (NCI) fraud: verifiably disclose via internal and independent reviews, make right the wrongful dismissals, and do what is “good, right, and true before the Lord your God" (2 Chronicles 31:20). 

We encourage you to: 

--Read the Into Integrity weblog entries to review why it is so important for the moral health and reputation of the Church-Mission Community to resolutely persevere in the FAST call.

--Listen to our podcast: Awaken the Good—Heal the Body: A Personal Exhortation for Specific Leaders (20 December 2019). We continue the ongoing efforts to call for and pray for repentance and healing in the international Church Mission Community. 

--Listen to our podcast: Confronting Corruption in Our Midst: Principles for Courage, Integrity and Action (12 December 2019). It is a reflection of this Updates message to "go boldly into the darkness as we live in integrity and unite for integrity."

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Special News and Events

In this Update we focus on the upcoming  Global Integrity Day (GID)--9 June 2022. The theme is Integrity and Corruption in the Health Sector. GID is "a positive day to reflect, teach, and collaborate on ways to integrate integrity in all we do throughout the entire year..." Visit the website to explore the latest integrity and anti-corruption resources and some of the suggested ways to connect with GID.

Choose an Event!
GID this year features a selection of five special "spotlight events" for you that are available on demand for free:

Spotlight Event 1. Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Health Care: Why Do We Speak So Little About Them? (13 December 2021), a one-hour webinar organized by the Faith and Public Integrity Network.

Spotlight Event 2. Contributions for Moral Health from Peace Psychology (7 November 2018), a 25 minute presentation during Geneva Peace Week, held at the United Nations.
 
Spotlight Event 3. Breaking Vicious Cycles of Dirty Money and Impunity (4 December 2020), a plenary from the 19th International Anti-Corruption Conference (90 minutes with Q and A)--create a free account to access.
 
Spotlight Event 4. Integrity and Anti-Corruption on the Frontlines (30 April 2022), five interviews with advocates from around the world organized by Lausanne-WEA Global Integrity Network (about 20 minutes each).
 
Spotlight Event 5. The Use of Technologies for Battling Corruption (free e-course available online from 9 May-June 20--in Arabic and English) offered by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)​--create a free account to access.

Making the most of the spotlight events: Watch one or more of these events during the week before or after 9 June, including doing so interactively with friends and colleagues.

--What did you find the most interesting or helpful?
--List a few things that you would like to explore more.
--Was there anything you thought to be controversial or not helpful?
--List some practical applications for you/your settings.

“These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other
and render true and sound judgment in your courts; do not plot evil against each other,
and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord…
Therefore love truth and peace.” Zechariah 8:16,19

Fight the evil of corruption--in all its forms.

Live in integrity--Unite for integrity

Kelly and Michèle

prointegritynet@gmail.com

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Into Integrity

Thank you for your encouragement, support, and prayers. 

The purpose of Into Integrity is to call attention to--and confront--the lack of disclosures by specific organizations/leaders/people affected by the international Nordic Capital Investment KB fraud (NCI) as well as the related, wrongful dismissals directed at Kelly and Michèle O’Donnell. It has featured a 40 day FAST (part one 6-26 June 2019 and part two 6-26 December 2019): FAsting for genuine contrition and STriking for resolute action within the Church Mission Community (CMC).

Integrity is moral wholeness—living consistently in moral wholeness. Corruption is moral rottenness, the opposite of integrity--the distortion, perversion, and deterioration of moral goodness, resulting in the exploitation of people. Global integrity is living consistently in moral wholeness at all levels--individual, interpersonal, institutional, and international--across sectors and settings, local through global, systemic and structural.

Going further--See also:
--links for comments by colleagues expressing their strong support for the specific calls to people and organizations for integrity, disclosures, and confronting wrongful dismissals;

--links for the Into Integrity podcasts and blogposts: seven by Kelly (Part One, June 2019) and seven by Michèle and Kelly (Part Two, December 2019);

--links to the latest PETRA People weblog focusing on a) new resources for integrity and anti-corruption and b) continuing the call for assistance by specific leaders, organizations and others affected by the international NCI fraud: the Professional Review, the Healing the Body summary-summons, and the Integrity Petition. 

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The Integrity Petition

Shine the Light-Together!

Don’t be intimidated. Eventually everything is going to be out in the open, and everyone will know how things really are. So don’t hesitate to go public now. Don’t be bluffed into silence by the threats of bullies. There’s nothing they can do to your soul, your core being. Save your fear for God, who holds your entire life—body and soul—in his hands. Matthew 10: 26-28, The Message

International Anti-Corruption Day--9 December 2021

Into Integrity

Special News and Events

Your Rights and Responsibilities

Fighting the Evil of Corruption

Live in integrity--Unite for integrity
#HealUsToo  --  #MyOrganizationToo  --  #PetraPeopleNet

Into Integrity blogpost/podcast (19 December 2019)

"Follow me, My beloved. Do not fear. Shine your light."

“These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other
and render true and sound judgment in your courts; do not plot evil against each other,
and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord…
Therefore love truth and peace.” Zechariah 8:16,19

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Warm greetings!

Into Integrity Update
The Into Integrity FAST, involving 40 days of food fasting and hunger striking, featuring special podcasts and blogposts, was launched June through December 2019. We continue FAST via the ongoing call for the assistance and integrity of specific Christian organizations, leaders, and people affected by the international Nordic Capital investment KB (NCI) fraud: verifiably disclose via internal and independent reviews, make right the wrongful dismissals, and do what is “good, right, and true before the Lord your God" (2 Chronicles 31:20). 

We encourage you to: 

--Read the Into Integrity weblog entries to review why it is so important for the moral health and reputation of the Church-Mission Community to resolutely persevere in the FAST call.

--Listen to our podcast: Awaken the Good—Heal the Body: A Personal Exhortation for Specific Leaders (20 December 2019). We continue the ongoing efforts to call for and pray for repentance and healing in the international Church Mission Community. 

--Listen to our podcast: Confronting Corruption in Our Midst: Principles for Courage, Integrity and Action (12 December 2019). It is a reflection of this Updates message to "go boldly into the darkness as we live in integrity and unite for integrity."

--See also Global Integrity Day, 9 June 2021: Corruption and Poverty. This special, annual day is a time to reflect, teach, and collaborate on ways to integrate integrity in all we do throughout the entire year. At the bottom of the site there is an opportunity to stand with others in solidarity by publicly endorsing this special Day—this ongoing effort--as an individual, project, organization, and/or network. 

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Special News and Events

In this Update we focus on the upcoming UN International Anti-Corruption Day and the Lausanne-WEA Global Integrity Conference, both on 9 December. Have a look and participate!

Special Event 1. United Nations International Anti-Corruption Day, 9 December 2021. Theme: Our Right, Our Role: Say No to Corruption. "The 2021 International Anti-Corruption Day seeks to highlight the rights and responsibilities of everyone--including States, Government officials, civil servants, law enforcement officers, media representatives, the private sector, civil society, academia, the public and youth --in tackling corruption....A six-week campaign starting at the beginning of November aims to highlight the role of key stakeholders and individuals in preventing and countering corruption in line with the theme, “Your right, your role: say no to corruption”. Each week will focus on one of these key topics. Education and youth Sport Gender Private sector COVID-19." More information and resources are on the website of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.

Background. "Corruption undermines democratic institutions, slows economic development and contributes to governmental instability....On 31 October 2003, the General Assembly adopted the United Nations Convention against Corruption and...also designated 9 December as International Anti-Corruption Day, to raise awareness of corruption and of the role of the Convention in combating and preventing it....Governments, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, the media and citizens around the world are joining forces to fight this crime. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) are at the forefront of these efforts."

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Special Event 2. Global Integrity Network, Special Webinar-Conference, organized by the Lausanne Movement-World Evangelical Alliance, 9 December 2021. Theme: Integrity: Fighting the Evil of Corruption. The Lausanne-WEA Integrity and Anti-Corruption Network (GIN) is committed to empower Christians to champion the value and practice of integrity and effective anti-corruption efforts. This is the third GIN conference this year, bringing colleagues together from around the world in order to galvanize the Church-Mission Community's efforts for pro-integrity and anti-corruption. Experts will address a variety of issues in this two hour event. It will be followed on 11 December with "Virtual Cafés" to further interact on the topics with speakers and participants. Register HERE for the conference. More information and resources are on the GIN website.  Update--Presentations are available HERE.

Also note: Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Health Care: Why do we speak so little about them? 13 December 13:00 (UTC). Organised by the Faith and Public Integrity Network

Update--Watch the one hour recording of the webinar HERE

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“These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other
and render true and sound judgment in your courts; do not plot evil against each other,
and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord…
Therefore love truth and peace.” Zechariah 8:16,19

Fight the evil of corruption--in all its forms.

Live in integrity--Unite for integrity

Kelly and Michèle

prointegritynet@gmail.com

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Into Integrity

Thank you for your encouragement, support, and prayers. 

The purpose of Into Integrity is to call attention to--and confront--the lack of disclosures by specific organizations/leaders/people affected by the international Nordic Capital Investment KB fraud (NCI) as well as the related, wrongful dismissals directed at Kelly and Michèle O’Donnell. It has featured a 40 day FAST (part one 6-26 June 2019 and part two 6-26 December 2019): FAsting for genuine contrition and STriking for resolute action within the Church Mission Community (CMC).

Integrity is moral wholeness—living consistently in moral wholeness. Corruption is moral rottenness, the opposite of integrity--the distortion, perversion, and deterioration of moral goodness, resulting in the exploitation of people. Global integrity is living consistently in moral wholeness at all levels--individual, interpersonal, institutional, and international--across sectors and settings, local through global, systemic and structural.

Going further--See also:
--links for comments by colleagues expressing their strong support for the specific calls to people and organizations for integrity, disclosures, and confronting wrongful dismissals;

--links for the Into Integrity podcasts and blogposts: seven by Kelly (Part One, June 2019) and seven by Michèle and Kelly (Part Two, December 2019);

--links to the latest PETRA People weblog focusing on a) new resources for integrity and anti-corruption and b) continuing the call for assistance by specific leaders, organizations and others affected by the international NCI fraud: the Professional Review, the Healing the Body summary-summons, and the Integrity Petition. 

.

The Integrity Petition

Shine the Light-Together!

Don’t be intimidated. Eventually everything is going to be out in the open, and everyone will know how things really are. So don’t hesitate to go public now. Don’t be bluffed into silence by the threats of bullies. There’s nothing they can do to your soul, your core being. Save your fear for God, who holds your entire life—body and soul—in his hands. Matthew 10: 26-28, The Message

Global Integrity Day--9 June 2021

Into Integrity--Into the 2020s

Spotlight Events!

“These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other
and render true and sound judgment in your courts; do not plot evil against each other,
and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord…
Therefore love truth and peace.” Zechariah 8:16,19

Live in integrity--Unite for integrity
#HealUsToo  --  #MyOrganizationToo  --  #PetraPeopleNet
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Warm greetings!

The 6th of June 2021 marks the two year anniversary of the start of the Into Integrity FAST. We continue the FAST call for the assistance and integrity of specific Christian organizations, leaders, and people affected by the international Nordic Capital investment KB (NCI) fraud: verifiably disclose via internal and independent reviews, make right the wrongful dismissals, and do what is “good, right, and true before the Lord your God" (2 Chronicles 31:20). 
 
We encourage you read the Into Integrity weblog to review why it is so important to resolutely persevere in in the FAST call. We also encourage you to listen to our Into Integrity podcasts, such as: 

--Awaken the Good—Heal the Body: A Personal Exhortation for Specific Leaders (20 December 2019). 

--Confronting Corruption in Our Midst: Principles for Courage, Integrity and Action (12 December 2019). 

Going further--see also:
--Ten Resources for Integrity and Anti-Corruption (2010-2020) article
--A Summons to A Global Integrity Movement (2018) article
--Reality DOSE! website

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Spotlight Events

“Corruption is criminal, immoral and the ultimate betrayal of public trust.….We must hold leaders to account….A vibrant civic space and open access to information are essential. And we must protect the rights and recognize the courage of whistle-blowers who expose wrongdoing….As an age-old plague takes on new forms, let us combat it with new heights of resolve.” UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, Statementon corruption in the context of COVID-19 (15 October 2020). Watch the video HERE.

Global Integrity Day, 9 June 2021: Corruption and Poverty. This annual day is a time to reflect, teach, and collaborate on ways to integrate integrity in all we do throughout the entire year. Have a look at the website for more information and resources. We are really pleased to coordinate this website and to curate its many resources.

We are highlighting-spotlighting three special events, described below, to commemorate this year's Global Integrity Day, Join us and others--spread the word!

1. Courage against Corruption during COVID
2.UN Special Session Against Corruption
3. When the Best Is Corrupt--Strategies for Living in Integrity

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Spotlight Event 1

Faith and Public Integrity Network invites you to join us for
Global Integrity Day: Courage against corruption during COVID
Featuring the work of the Association for a More Just Society-Honduras (ASJ)

You are invited to a special event as we explore this year's theme for Global Integrity Day, Corruption and Poverty. We feature ASJ's work in Honduras and overview Global Integrity Day and recent examples of similar global initiatives. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted disparities in access to healthcare and economic support the poor experience around the world. In an effort to advance its mission to work for justice for the most vulnerable in Honduras, ASJ took up the task of auditing the institution in charge of purchasing equipment and medical supplies during the COVID crisis and, as a result, uncovered corruption within that process. Their courageous work inspired changes at the government level to try to ensure better care for all people in Honduras. Join us to learn more and to commemorate Global Integrity Day!

Update: Videos/audios and the two power point presentations HERE.
See also the GID website for other special events.

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Spotlight Event 2

United Nations General Assembly Special Session Against Corruption: "Challenges and measures to prevent and combat corruption and strengthen international cooperation" (2-4 June 2021; 10:00-13:00 and 15:18:00 EST, everyday--live streamed/archived on UN Web TV). Also: 80 minute High-Level Supporting Event with Civil Society and UN presenters, 3 June 13:30-15:00: Addressing Corruption in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Archived HERE. The Political Declaration was unanimously adopted on day one:  "Our common commitment to effectively addressing challenges and implementing measures to prevent and combat corruption and strengthen international cooperation." (18 pages; note "integrity" is included 19 times)

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Spotlight Event 3

The Lausanne-WEA Integrity and Anti-Corruption Network (GIN) is committed to empower Christians to champion the value and practice of integrity and effective anti-corruption efforts. The link below connects you to the presentations from the recent GIN conference (1 May 2021), When the Best is Corrupt: Strategies for Living in Integrity. The three brief plenaries address: Living a Life of Integrity, Practicing Integrity in the Church, and Promoting Integrity in Society. The three breakout sessions-presentations deal with Integrity in Church Leadership, Integrity in the Business World, and Integrity in the University.

Live in integrity--Unite for integrity
#HealUsToo -- #MyOrganizationToo -- #PetraPeopleNet

Kelly and Michèle

prointegritynet@gmail.com

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Into Integrity

Thank you for your encouragement, support, and prayers. 

The purpose of Into Integrity is to call attention to--and confront--the lack of disclosures by specific organizations/leaders/people affected by the international Nordic Capital Investment KB fraud (NCI) as well as the related, wrongful dismissals directed at Kelly and Michèle O’Donnell. It has featured a 40 day FAST (part one 6-26 June 2019 and part two 6-26 December 2019): FAsting for genuine contrition and STriking for resolute action within the Church Mission Community (CMC).

Integrity is moral wholeness—living consistently in moral wholeness. Corruption is moral rottenness, the opposite of integrity--the distortion, perversion, and deterioration of moral goodness, resulting in the exploitation of people. Global integrity is living consistently in moral wholeness at all levels--individual, interpersonal, institutional, and international--across sectors and settings, local through global, systemic and structural.

Going further--See also:
--links for comments by colleagues expressing their strong support for the specific calls to people and organizations for integrity, disclosures, and confronting wrongful dismissals;

--links for the Into Integrity podcasts and blogposts: seven by Kelly (Part One, June 2019) and seven by Michèle and Kelly (Part Two, December 2019);

--links to the latest PETRA People weblog focusing on a) new rsources for integrity and anti-corrption and b) continuing the call for assistance by specific leaders, organizations and others affected by the international NCI fraud: the Professional Review, the Healing the Body summary-summons, and the Integrity Petition. 

.

The Integrity Petition

Shine the Light-Together!

Don’t be intimidated. Eventually everything is going to be out in the open, and everyone will know how things really are. So don’t hesitate to go public now. Don’t be bluffed into silence by the threats of bullies. There’s nothing they can do to your soul, your core being. Save your fear for God, who holds your entire life—body and soul—in his hands. Matthew 10: 26-28, The Message

International Anti-Corruption Day--9 December 2020

Into Integrity--Into 2020

Go Boldly Into the Darkness

Live in integrity--Unite for integrity
#HealUsToo  --  #MyOrganizationToo  --  #PetraPeopleNet

Image © and courtesy Katy A. O'Donnell
Into Integrity blogpost/podcast (19 December 2019)

"Follow me, My beloved. Do not fear. Shine your light."

Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. (Romans 13:10-12)

Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. (Ephesians 5: 8-11)

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Warm greetings!

1. Into Integrity Update
The 6th of December 2020 marks the one year anniverary of Part Two of the Into Integrity FAST. We continue the FAST call for the assistance and integrity of specific Christian organizations, leaders, and people affected by the international NCI fraud: verifiably disclose via internal and independent reviews, make right the wrongful dismissals, and do what is “good, right, and true before the Lord your God’ (2 Chronicles 31:20).

Also:
--Have a listen to our podcast: Awaken the Good—Heal the Body: A Personal Exhortation for Specific Leaders (20 December 2019). We continue the ongoing efforts to call for and pray for repentance and healing in the international Church Mission Community. 

--Have a listen to our podcast: Confronting Corruption in Our Midst: Principles for Courage, Integrity and Action (12 December 2019). It is a reflection of this Updates message to "go boldly into the darkness as we live in integrity and unite for integrity."

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2. UN Anti-Corruption Day (9 December 2020). This year continues the United Nations’ multi-year theme "United Against Corruption." Have a look at website for more information and resources—ideas about how you and your organization can be involved in fighting corruption throughout the year. See the one minute video overview here. Find practical ways to get further informed and further involved!

Also note the 19th International Anti-Corruption Conference is taking place virtually and for free, 30 November--5 December. The theme is  Designing 2030: Truth, Trust, and Transparency. Archives hopefully availble too. "A global community of anti-corruption experts have contributed to the programme…[and] more than 500 speakers…Together, we will assess the future we want to see in 2030, examine the challenges of combating corruption in the current political climate, and connect with filmmakers, activists and journalists who lead innovative and effective advocacy and action against corruption.”

  

See also Global Integrity Day, 9 June: Moral Lives Matter. This special, annual day is a time to reflect, teach, and collaborate on ways to integrate integrity in all we do throughout the entire year. At the bottom of the site there is an opportunity to stand with others in solidarity by publicly endorsing this special Day—this ongoing effort--as an individual, project, organization, and/or network. 

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3. Exposing Dysfunction and Deviance (DD). Have a look at the five "tactics" in this grid from A Summons to A Global Integrity Movement (Lausanne Global Analysis, 2018). It is a tool to help us recognize "the presence and progression of DD in organizational settings...[and] can also be used as a mirror into one’s own integrity." This grid is based on material in Wise as Doves and Innocent as Serpents? (2012 version) and can be used in conjunction with another grid in this article,  Suggestions for Dealing with Dysfunction/Toxicity (Reality DOSE! website).

• Deny. Conceal DD. ‘Don’t ask about problems (even obvious ones), don’t tell about problems, and don’t rock the boat’ is a pervasive, core, unwritten rule.
• Downplay. Minimize DD’s negative impact. State that it is probably ‘normal’. Relational unity and conformity trump truth and genuine relationships.
• Distract. Distract from the real DD issues. ‘Feign pain’ and get sympathy; or admit that something is ‘not exactly right’ and refer to problems as being largely a matter of having different perspectives/preferences–a need to agree to disagree.
• Discredit. Belittle those who point out or inquire about DD. Silence them. Instill an atmosphere of fear of reprisals and intimidation to prevent people from speaking up or calling for good practice.
• Destroy. Demolish people’s reputations, contributions, relationships, and wellbeing. Use half-truths, spin, lies, rumors, threats, false accusations, and dismissals. Reap the benefits of control, position, respect, status quo, and revenue streams.

See also: Ten Resources for Integrity and Anti-Corruption (2010-2020). This short article presents core examples of the Lausanne Movement’s historical efforts in advocating for integrity and supporting collaborative efforts to promote moral resilience and relevance within the international Church Mission Community. The 10 resources (articles and videos) can be stimulating tools for group discussions and applications as we endeavor to "go boldly into the darkness."

“These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other
and render true and sound judgment in your courts; do not plot evil against each other,
and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord…
Therefore love truth and peace.” Zechariah 8:16,19

Go Boldly into the Darkness

Live in integrity--Unite for integrity

Kelly and Michèle

prointegritynet@gmail.com

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Into Integrity

Thank you for your encouragement, support, and prayers. 

The purpose of Into Integrity is to call attention to--and confront--the lack of disclosures by specific organizations/leaders/people affected by the international Nordic Capital Investment KB fraud (NCI) as well as the related, wrongful dismissals directed at Kelly and Michèle O’Donnell. It has featured a 40 day FAST (part one 6-26 June 2019 and part two 6-26 December 2019): FAsting for genuine contrition and STriking for resolute action within the Church Mission Community (CMC).

Integrity is moral wholeness—living consistently in moral wholeness. Corruption is moral rottenness, the opposite of integrity--the distortion, perversion, and deterioration of moral goodness, resulting in the exploitation of people. Global integrity is living consistently in moral wholeness at all levels--individual, interpersonal, institutional, and international--across sectors and settings, local through global, systemic and structural.

Going further--See also:
--links for comments by colleagues expressing their strong support for the specific calls to people and organizations for integrity, disclosures, and confronting wrongful dismissals;

--links for the Into Integrity podcasts and blogposts: seven by Kelly (Part One, June 2019) and seven by Michèle and Kelly (Part Two, December 2019);

--links to the latest PETRA People weblog focusing on a) new rsources for integrity and anti-corrption and b) continuing the call for assistance by specific leaders, organizations and others affected by the international NCI fraud: the Professional Review, the Healing the Body summary-summons, and the Integrity Petition. 

.

The Integrity Petition

Shine the Light-Together!

Don’t be intimidated. Eventually everything is going to be out in the open, and everyone will know how things really are. So don’t hesitate to go public now. Don’t be bluffed into silence by the threats of bullies. There’s nothing they can do to your soul, your core being. Save your fear for God, who holds your entire life—body and soul—in his hands. Matthew 10: 26-28, The Message