How can one talk about stopping White Flight in the Church with out sounding racist?

HEY STAN

what are we talking about "White Flight" ?????



dgrimm60

It goes like this, simply speaking:

There is a congregation.

Blacks enter the church. After a time the whites leave the church.

What you have left is a black church.

This has happened a LOT in our Eastern Canadian churches. Since I don't attend a church back East I have no idea how this works. But I know that it does.

HEY GAIL

WOW this is the 1st time I have heard of this
happening....

what is the reason the whites are leaving the church
when the blacks come in????

dgrimm60

Here are some of the ones i've heard:

Not enough seats in church anymore.
Not enough quality baptisms.
The Lord is calling me to plant a church.
Its time to give others room to serve.
My husband says the music is too loud.
This is not our church anymore.
Things have changed so much.
Things were ok until the darkies came.

So what can be done to win whites back?

HEY ALL

DOES Canada have separate conferences for BLACKS
LIKE the U.S. DOES????

dgrimm60

As a black Pastor who works for a "white" conference I would say that many white's have moved congregations and have not necessarily left the church. They may need to come back to Jesus but not necessarily to the churches they left. Many left for understandable reasons, some just left.

I will hold my prescriptions to allow whites who have left or know people who have left to give theirs first.

HEY ALL

EVEN though our S.D.A. church is all white
when other nationalities come in to visit and
worship with us we always welcome them

dgrimm60

I find this an interesting topic, and thank you, Lazarus, for your input!