 Global Integration UpdatesCommon Ground for the Common Good Be the people we need--Build the world we need
Special News--December 2024We're Taking a BreakThanks for your encouragement!Ten Υears (2015-2024)
 Thanks for joining with us on this GI journey! "Global Integration (GI) is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based)." -------------------- Overview
This Update (#102) is to let you know that we are taking a break from the monthly GI Updates which we have been doing since 2015. We also want to say a big thank you for your encouraging words of appreciation to us over the past 10 years (see below). We are very grateful for your supportive feedback! It has truly been a challenging and rewarding journey together along the Global lntegration Highway!
Our perspectives and materials in the 100+ issues are shared to encourage us all to be the people we need as we seek to build the world we need. This is not meant to be a mere slogan. Rather it is intended as a practical orienting and rallying point for active and responsible engagement in our world throughout our lives.
A major take-away. At the heart of global integration is global integrity--living consistently in moral wholeness at all levels--individual, interpersonal, institutional, and international; across sectors and settings; local through global; the systemic and structural. It is living consistently with honesty, humility, and all the virtues--and with an awareness of one’s potential to deceive and harm oneself and others." (based on the definitions of integrity and corruption from Global Integrity Day-9 June)
We conclude the Update as usual with some personal perspectives on being "people of faith-hope-love" in the Christian tradition who embrace "common ground for the common good." It is an inclusive approach which encourages active learning and collaboration with a diversity of colleagues on behalf of wellbeing for all people and the planet. Suggested Applications--Making It Personal - Periodically review the GI topics over the past 10 years and dive into some of them again. How can they help you to be the person you need to be in order to build the world we need?
- Share this Update with your friends, colleagues, organization(s), and network(s). Discuss practical applications for your life and work.
Note These Summary Overviews: Warm greetings,
Kelly and Michèle   MCAresources@gmail.com
Words of Appreciation
Global Integration Updates (2015-2024)
Thank You Too! You continue to astound me with the comprehensive scope of your concern and your work. Sending love and blessings, as always. USA Conversations on Creation Care—Global Integration Update (February 2024)
I would like to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude for sharing the Global Integration Updates with me regularly. I want to extend my thanks to you and your entire team for all the hard work, dedication, and perseverance that have gone into achieving these goals. Your updates filled me with pride and joy, and I am grateful to have a friend who is making such a meaningful contribution to society. Asia Are You a "Non"? Respecting Colleagues and Balancing Influence—Global Integration Update (October 2023)
Thank you. Extremely informative. Africa Sobering and troubling, but a valuable glimpse of our world today...Thank you for assembling and sharing these resources. USA Arming the World and Promoting Positive Peace—Global Integration Update (September 2022)
Comprehensive, useful and inspiring as always. I will be at COP26, where we are hosting an event...We’ll be sharing the attached Your update is a helpful pre-read for me. Europe Planet SOS—Global Integration Update (November 2021)
Such a wonderful issue. Thank you, Michele and Kelly, for the work that you do. Europe Genocide: "We can't just ‘Pontius Pilate’ 800,000 people."—Global Integration Update (December 2020)
I just wanted to say thank you for sharing this. Last month I had my students watch sections of the conference (during our week on humanitarian settings/trauma), and several mentioned that it was very helpful to see the live discussions and hear stories. Your contributions to the class are most helpful! USA Thank you Kelly and Michèle for this great newsletter which I always attentively read. Europe Helping Well in Humanitarian Settings: Mental Health and Psychosocial Support—Global Integration Updates (November 2019)
Thank you Kelly and Michele for this great newsletter. I always read this in detail and use it for the good cause of moving global mental health into the right direction also inside [our organization]. Europe Mental Health for All--Me Too!—Global Integration Updates (October 2019)
Thank you for your mailing just now and all the ones you regularly send. They often send me on an exploration trip on the web and I come back with treasures! This has been the case with the excellent resource "Where there is no psychiatrist". Thank you! Asia Thank you for sharing this wonderful manual. Congratulations and keep up your good work. Europe Where There Is No Psychiatrist—Global Integration Updates (August 2018)
Fabulous article/newsletter. Thank you for this wonderful work about heroes! Your subject is so timely, and today is the Big day! [World Humanitarian Day—19 August] Your exposition is excellent. I've printed it out to keep reading, and to use as a resource. USA Everyday Global Heroes: Moral Lives Matter—Global Integration Update (August 2017)
Your update is timely and pertinent as always. Establishing integrity in our youth is a formidable challenge, as convenience and crisis vie for dominance in their outlook on the world. For me the challenge is to make the 'courage to change' the default choice at our school. I suspect this will keep me going for the next 15 years! Europe Living In Global Integrity—Global Integration Update (April 2017)
Gracias—really appreciate this month's newsletter. Keep up the good work. South America Working Together Well—Global Integration Update (February 2016)
I really enjoy your informative e-newsletters. Thanks for all the hard work you both do for international workers...I'm in awe of your energy and talents! USA Transforming Our World—Global Integration Update (October 2015)
Thank you for this very valuable information. South America Understanding the Current Global Context—Global Integration Update (April 2015) See the full list of colleagues' words of appreciation HERE.
Personal ReflectionsBeing People of Faith-Hope-Love
As people of faith who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in hope for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical love for truth, peace, and people--and this includes being willing to acknowledge, resist, and confront evil in its many forms (starting with ourselves, etc.)
We do not want to further problematize our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as people of integrity find common ground for the common good.
Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like climate, conflicts, poverty, and corruption can also be quite positive. They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly.
The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction? (Global Integration Update, October 2022).
Member Care Associates
MCAresources@gmail.com
 Member Care Associates Inc. (MCA) is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. Our services include consultation, training, research, resource development, and publications.
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Global Integration (GI) is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links building the world we need with being the people we need. Our Global Integration Updates are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of global integrators who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good." 2015-current (100+ issues).
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Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;
it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,
and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963) |
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