Note- Into Integrity has two parts.
--Part One (2020-2025) Materials related to a) the Into Integrity FAST and b) news and resources emphasizing Global Integrity Day-9 June and International Anti-Corruption Day-9 December.--Part Two (2019) Materials related to the Into Integrity FAST emphasizing the 14 podcasts and the 18 blog posts.
Special News!
International Anti-Corruption Day--9 December 2025
Theme:
Uniting with Youth Against Corruption
Shaping Tomorrow's Integrity
“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
International Anti-Corruption Day--9 December 2025
Theme:
Uniting with Youth Against Corruption
Shaping Tomorrow's Integrity
“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
Warm greetings as we continue into our seventh year of Into Integrity,
taking action and sharing resources to support integrity.
Note:
Starting in 2026 we will merge the Into Integrity and the PETRA People Updates.
The new name will be PETRA Integrity.
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Into Integrity Update
Read the full Update on the Into Integrity weblog
Read the full Update on the Into Integrity weblog
Overview
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 read the Into Integrity weblog 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. We also encourage you to listen to the Into Integrity podcasts, such as: Confronting Corruption in Our Midst: Principles for Courage, Integrity, and Action and Awaken the Good--A Personal Exhortation to Specific Leaders. There is more information about Into Integrity below towards the end.
Note:
Starting in 2026 we will merge the Into Integrity and the PETRA People Updates.
The new name will be PETRA Integrity.
Starting in 2026 we will merge the Into Integrity and the PETRA People Updates.
The new name will be PETRA Integrity.
Thank you for your encouragement, support, and prayers,
Kelly and Michèle O'Donnell
Live in integrity--Unite for integrity
prointegritynet@gmail.com
Special News!
International Anti-Corruption Day--9 December 2025
Our core messages in this Update are to a) learn more about and connect with International Anti-Corruption Day with its special emphasis on youth and b) consider how we define and assess how we are acting and living in integrity. These messages are also specifically addressed to all the leaders, organizations, and people affected by the NCI KB fraud as described and documented below.
Resource 1. International Anti-Corruption Day (9 December 2025) (IAD)
The theme this year is Uniting with Youth Against Corruption--Shaping Tomorrow's Integrity. "Building on the campaign launched on International Anti-Corruption Day 2024, the 2025 campaign continues to highlight the role of young guardians of integrity as advocates, raising awareness about corruption and its impact on their communities. It will feature voices of tomorrow’s integrity leaders sharing insights on the links between organized crime and corruption, the key role of AI and emerging technologies, and the connection between corruption, peace and security, demonstrating why combating corruption is essential for a fair and secure future." (quote from IAD website)
"With 1.9 billion young people in the world today, nearly a quarter of the global population, tackling corruption is essential for securing their future. Yet shaping tomorrow’s integrity starts with the choices we make today. Its success depends on empowering and meaningfully including the next generation in anti-corruption efforts, harnessing emerging technologies and strengthening governance and institutional systems that uphold transparency and accountability. It also requires robust protections for those who courageously speak out and report wrongdoing." (read more on the IAD 2025 website)
This is the 23nd annual IAD which was initiated the same year as the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC, 2003). Have a look at the website to see the resources and activities that are happening around the time of this international day and into the coming year. Consider how you can connect and participate including how to involve young people in your spheres of influence. Note also the work of the UNCAC Civil Society Coalition which serves as a support and a watchdog for the extent to which UN member sates are fulfilling their commitments to the UNCAC.
Check out the IAD website for resources, activities, and events!
Resource 2. Defining Integrity and Corruption
How Much Do You Have--of Either?!
(adapted from Global Integrity Day-9 June) (GID)
"Shaping future integrity" is an emphasis again for this year's IAD. Bravo! Yet what exactly are we trying to shape--what is "integrity"? And how is it actually being shaped--how do we develop and maintain "integrity"? And how do you and others know if you are acting with integrity--how do you evaluate "integrity"? Our default is too assume and to affirm that we got it--but that is not always true. Integrity is often "mixed"--true in some parts of our life but not all parts--and with mixed motives. All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the LORD. (Proverbs 16:2)"
Integrity is moral wholeness—living consistently in moral wholeness—with honesty, humility and all the virtues--and with an awareness of one’s potential to deceive and harm oneself and others. Integrity needs external moral referents--standards of virtue with accountability--and not simply positive self-appraisals--in order to safeguard us all from both blind and willful hypocrisy.
Global integrity is living consistently in moral wholeness at all levels--individual, interpersonal, institutional, and international; across sectors and settings; local through global; the systemic and structural.
Corruption is moral rottenness, the opposite of integrity--the distortion, perversion, and deterioration of moral goodness, resulting in the abuse and exploitation of people and the planet. It is integroty. 'If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, then how great is your darkness!" (Matthew 6:23)
Note that the above definitions of integrity and corruption open the door wide to the crucial discussion and clarification of "external moral referents" and "standards of virtue and accountability" as well as the process and accuracy of one's moral perceptions of self and others.
Three recent resources on the GID websiteCurtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice
by Shaazka Beyerle (free download of this book)
Church Integrity Systems:
A Handbook--Anti-Corruption Efforts of Churches Need a Reset
by Christof Stückelberger, GlobeEthics (free download of this book)
Corruption Perception Index 2024 (CPI), Transparency International (published 11 February 2025)--See also CPI 2024: Highlights and Insights
Resource 3--Podcast from Into Integrity
Fearing the Lord: Learning from the Ghosts of Corruption—Living in the Light of Integrity—Loving Truth, Peace, and People (Christmas Eve 2019)
In this podcast we (Michele and Kelly) share three powerful readings--exhortations--that can inform our efforts to promote integrity and to live in integrity. It is long past time to see healing in the international Church Mission Community and in the specific organizations, leaders, and people affected by the international NCI fraud----including their spiritual and moral authority. This theme also serves to summarize the messages from our podcasts-blogposts done during FAST in 2019. You can also read the blogpost about it HERE.
Into Integrity
Make every day an integrity day! 
Going Further 
This petition is an ongoing, international call for the organizations (current and past staff, leaders, board members, etc.) and people affected by the Nordic Capital Investment KB (NCI) fraud to share and help uncover the truth—to transparently and verifiably disclose.
"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 2025
Uniting with Youth Against Corruption
Shaping Tomorrow's Integrity
In this Update (#30) we feature this year's International Anti-Corruption Day (9 December) with its focus on working with and supporting "young guardians of integrity" (Resource 1). We also share some of our thoughts on defining integrity along with three recent materials highlighted for Global Integrity Day (9 June) with its theme "developing integrity to defeat corruption" (Resource 2), and three compelling readings in Fearing the Lord, one of our special podcasts from Into Integrity (Resource 3).Shaping Tomorrow's Integrity
Our core messages in this Update are to a) learn more about and connect with International Anti-Corruption Day with its special emphasis on youth and b) consider how we define and assess how we are acting and living in integrity. These messages are also specifically addressed to all the leaders, organizations, and people affected by the NCI KB fraud as described and documented below.
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Resource 1. International Anti-Corruption Day (9 December 2025) (IAD)
The theme this year is Uniting with Youth Against Corruption--Shaping Tomorrow's Integrity. "Building on the campaign launched on International Anti-Corruption Day 2024, the 2025 campaign continues to highlight the role of young guardians of integrity as advocates, raising awareness about corruption and its impact on their communities. It will feature voices of tomorrow’s integrity leaders sharing insights on the links between organized crime and corruption, the key role of AI and emerging technologies, and the connection between corruption, peace and security, demonstrating why combating corruption is essential for a fair and secure future." (quote from IAD website)
"With 1.9 billion young people in the world today, nearly a quarter of the global population, tackling corruption is essential for securing their future. Yet shaping tomorrow’s integrity starts with the choices we make today. Its success depends on empowering and meaningfully including the next generation in anti-corruption efforts, harnessing emerging technologies and strengthening governance and institutional systems that uphold transparency and accountability. It also requires robust protections for those who courageously speak out and report wrongdoing." (read more on the IAD 2025 website)
This is the 23nd annual IAD which was initiated the same year as the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC, 2003). Have a look at the website to see the resources and activities that are happening around the time of this international day and into the coming year. Consider how you can connect and participate including how to involve young people in your spheres of influence. Note also the work of the UNCAC Civil Society Coalition which serves as a support and a watchdog for the extent to which UN member sates are fulfilling their commitments to the UNCAC.
Check out the IAD website for resources, activities, and events!
Resource 2. Defining Integrity and Corruption
How Much Do You Have--of Either?!
(adapted from Global Integrity Day-9 June) (GID)
"Shaping future integrity" is an emphasis again for this year's IAD. Bravo! Yet what exactly are we trying to shape--what is "integrity"? And how is it actually being shaped--how do we develop and maintain "integrity"? And how do you and others know if you are acting with integrity--how do you evaluate "integrity"? Our default is too assume and to affirm that we got it--but that is not always true. Integrity is often "mixed"--true in some parts of our life but not all parts--and with mixed motives. All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the LORD. (Proverbs 16:2)"
Integrity is moral wholeness—living consistently in moral wholeness—with honesty, humility and all the virtues--and with an awareness of one’s potential to deceive and harm oneself and others. Integrity needs external moral referents--standards of virtue with accountability--and not simply positive self-appraisals--in order to safeguard us all from both blind and willful hypocrisy.
Global integrity is living consistently in moral wholeness at all levels--individual, interpersonal, institutional, and international; across sectors and settings; local through global; the systemic and structural.
Corruption is moral rottenness, the opposite of integrity--the distortion, perversion, and deterioration of moral goodness, resulting in the abuse and exploitation of people and the planet. It is integroty. 'If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, then how great is your darkness!" (Matthew 6:23)
Note that the above definitions of integrity and corruption open the door wide to the crucial discussion and clarification of "external moral referents" and "standards of virtue and accountability" as well as the process and accuracy of one's moral perceptions of self and others.
Three recent resources on the GID website
by Shaazka Beyerle (free download of this book)
Church Integrity Systems:
A Handbook--Anti-Corruption Efforts of Churches Need a Reset
by Christof Stückelberger, GlobeEthics (free download of this book)
Corruption Perception Index 2024 (CPI), Transparency International (published 11 February 2025)--See also CPI 2024: Highlights and Insights
Resource 3--Podcast from Into Integrity
Fearing the Lord: Learning from the Ghosts of Corruption—Living in the Light of Integrity—Loving Truth, Peace, and People (Christmas Eve 2019)
Lessons from our podcast below
"Marley's Ghost" in Dicken's A Christmas Carol
"Marley's Ghost" in Dicken's A Christmas Carol
In this podcast we (Michele and Kelly) share three powerful readings--exhortations--that can inform our efforts to promote integrity and to live in integrity. It is long past time to see healing in the international Church Mission Community and in the specific organizations, leaders, and people affected by the international NCI fraud----including their spiritual and moral authority. This theme also serves to summarize the messages from our podcasts-blogposts done during FAST in 2019. You can also read the blogpost about it HERE.
Into Integrity
Make every day an integrity day!
"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, Statement on corruption (15 October 2020).
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)
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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.
Going Further
See the Into Integrity weblog-updates for more background information including:
--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 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 weblogs 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 (Part Two of every weblog entry), and the Integrity Petition (see below).
This petition is an ongoing, international call for the organizations (current and past staff, leaders, board members, etc.) and people affected by the Nordic Capital Investment KB (NCI) fraud to share and help uncover the truth—to transparently and verifiably disclose.
There must be zero tolerance for corruption and its cover ups, complicity, and cowardice.
Act with integrity--live in integrity. Read it, sign it, share it. Thank you!
"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
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