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. 

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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