Martin Luther King’s Acceptance Speech for  the Nobel Peace Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1964
Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness, Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen:

I accept the Nobel Prize for Peace at a moment when 22 million Negroes of the United States of America are engaged in a creative battle to end the long night [...]

This is a powerful spoken word piece by David Bowden, produced by my friend and fellow unity advocate Scott Williams, author of Church Diversity. What thoughts or emotions does this video stir in you?

Diversity’s Symphony from Church Diversity on Vimeo.

This is a powerful spoken word piece by David Bowden that I came across on my friend and fellow Unity advocate Scott Williams, the author of Church Diversity. Check it out and tell us what you think.

Please help Dream of Destiny equip and encourage Christian churches across the country to better reflect diversity in their leadership and congregation. Watch the short video below and then click the link and fill out the easy volunteer form below.

Click the link and fill out the short volunteer form
(if you can not click on [...]

We celebrate the 48th anniversary this year of Martin Luther King’s Aug. 28, 1963 speech about his dream for America, delivered to hundreds of thousands on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Four years prior to that speech, on April 18, 1959, King had argued to the Youth March for integrated schools that committing “yourself to [...]

What thoughts and feelings surface when the topic of Ethnic Minority Ministry is broached?
This PDF download is written by three  Caucasian leaders, all members of the majority culture, who have personally
wrestled with what it means for Caucasians to minister in ethnic minority contexts.

I was given this PDF by a good friend of mine, Corwin Anthony, [...]

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Scott Williams is our guest speak. Please join
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8:15 am
Millennium Hotel Bronze Ball Room B

This Video was done for the Destiny Leader Online Conference. Dudley talks about his heart for diversity and the 5 Star program that empowers churches to make diversity an intentional effort.

Stay tuned! There are more videos to come!

Jesus was taken into the wild by the Spirit for the Test. The Devil was ready to give it. Jesus prepared for the Test by fasting forty days and forty nights. That left him, of course, in a state of extreme hunger, which the Devil took advantage of in the first test: [...]

(This is a re-post by John Ortberg from Leadership Journal)

I often do not understand who I am or what I do.

Calvin said that it is impossible to know myself without coming to know God—and impossible to know God without coming to know myself.

Yet I find in some ways the older I grow, the more a [...]

Can you relate to this?

I recently have become friends with Scott Williams, the author of soon to be released book Church Diversity, and former campus pastor of LifeChurch.tv, and founder of the popular leadership blog Big is The New Small.

We’ve shared phone conversations from everything from leadership, to why black men don’t like church. [...]

This video comes from People Of The Second Chance, an initiative started by my friends Mike Foster and Jud Wilhite.

The question I want to ask you is, “if this sort of thing happened to you, would you be able to forgive?” There are many things that divide us in this broken, and lost society. [...]

One of the most come things I hear when I speak with ministry leaders about being intentional about diversity is:
We welcome ALL people to join our church.  We are not “racist!”
And while today, in the 21st century, this sentiment may very well be true, there still lingers (often overlooked) the perpetual residue of separatism that [...]

Ethnic Blends, byr Marl DeyMaz.
“Ethnic Blends describes what effective local churches in the twenty-first century will look like, and shows us how to create them, together as one, beyond race and class distinctions.” –Miles McPherson, Senior Pastor, The Rock Church, San Diego

Ethnic Blends is a prophetic, Christ-centered road map that offers [...]

By Bruce Koblish

I’m a child of the ’60s, and my generation is no stranger to racial tension in our country. So I guess I should not have been surprised that when I became the president of the Gospel Music Association, I faced these same issues within the world of Christian music.

The second [...]

By Darrel Rowland (guest post)

Some 50 years ago Martin Luther King Jr. pierced the church’s soul by pointing out that the most segregated hour in America was 11:00 Sunday morning.

Things sure have changed in the five decades since, haven’t they? I mean, we gather at all sorts of hours other than 11 am Sunday these [...]

By Brad Dupray

Dream of Destiny is casting a vision for Christian churches and churches of Christ across America to increase their evangelistic outreach through ethnic diversity in ministry. Dudley Rutherford, senior pastor of Shepherd of the Hills Church in Porter Ranch, California, challenged Byron Davis to spearhead the venture as [...]

By Dudley C. Rutherford

At the midway point of Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech on the footsteps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, he mentioned the white people in attendance that day. Most are not aware there were many white people who participated in that momentous march [...]

Some 50 years ago Martin Luther King Jr. pierced the church’s soul by pointing out that the most segregated hour in America was 11:00 Sunday morning.

Things sure have changed in the five decades since, haven’t they? I mean, we gather at all sorts of hours other than 11 am Sunday these [...]

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.  ~John Henry Newman
The idea that something has to be perfect before it can be introduced to the world is one of the most debilitating ideas around.

I’m convinced that “perfection” just may be [...]

2011 is already poised to be a historic year for the Restoration movement. And one of the big pushes will be the intentional effort to help more students that represent diverse ethnic backgrounds and heritages attend bible college and/ or seminary. Dream of Destiny will be hosting it’s first online leadership conference:
One Nation [...]

Happy New Year!

I thought I’d kick off the New Year work week with a little encouragement. For many of us 2011 is already booked full of deadlines, events, special engagements,  books to write, projects to launch; wow I am exhausted just thinking about!

So with that said, I want to share this with you:

Here’s a little [...]

(This is a re-post from Scott  Williams over at Big Is The New Small com).
I think it’s a great idea.  I’m in!  Are you?

Christmas is just a couple of days away and it’s not only “The most wonderful time of the year…” its the busiest day for application downloads on smart phones [...]

On this video Mark DeYmaz, pastor of Mosaic Church in Little Rock Arkansas, and author of Ethnic Blends, lays out a very clear and compelling biblical mandate for why the body of Christ represented in our churches must embrace and reflect diversity.

Enjoy!

Watch This! If This Does Not Inspire You… check You Pulse! LOL

There are Next Generation Leaders ready to go to Bible college and Seminary! They are out there. They just need to know there’s opportunity at our bible colleges and seminaries, and bible college scholarships with their names on it.

Let’s continue [...]

Whether You like Glenn Beck or not is not the point. This video clip needs to be watched by everyone who cares about sharing the Gospel to ALL people that make up the nation we call America! I’m just sayin…

Every thing about us matters in one way or another. Our height, skin color, nationality, ethnicity, language, gender, skills, and yes even age have a distinct and unique purpose. What exactly that purpose is, of course, is an entire lesson in and of itself. While some things in our lives happen due to our sin [...]

This is a re-post from Carlos Whittaker over at RagamuffinSoul.com. Carlos was formerly the worship director at Buckhead church in Atlanta, and rescently released his debut album, Ragamuffin Soul (now available on Itunes).

Dudley recently connected with him in an airport not too long ago when Dudley over heard a dad say to his family that [...]

Multiculturalism is here! It is not coming. It is here. We are living in a day in age where everywhere we look, we see people who look different than we look. They dress slightly different than we dress. Their taste, their customs, their perspectives are all different than yours, and [...]

BEYOND: A Note from Ben Cachiaras, 2010 NACC President

“Come to the North American… It’s going to be one to remember!
This is no time for business as usual, protecting the status quo in our lives or our ministries. The needs are too great. The call is too urgent. And God is on the move!

We truly follow [...]

Dream of Destiny is excited about this year’s NACC in Indianapolis Indiana. There is a line up of great speakers and breakout sessions. From Tony Dungy, Rick Warren and Francis Chan, to Efrin Smith and Gene Appel. The call is to go Beyond. Beyond racial lines, beyond comfort zones, and beyond the great [...]

Dream Of Destiny is proud to be a part of the Mosaix Global Network. Mosaix is a national network of local church pastors and planters, researchers, educators and ministry leaders alike that exists to catalyze the growing movement toward multi-ethnic/economically diverse churches throughout North America and beyond by casting vision, connecting individuals of like-mind, conferencing [...]

Four Words from Granger Community on Vimeo.

I came across the video on Tim Stevens blog LeadingSmart.com. It’s kind of long (11 minutes… I know I am a product of our ADD media quick society), but it is definitely thought provoking. I am interested to know what you think.

Please comment below.

We are positioned to accomplish something that has never been attempted, let alone, accomplished before. That does not mean it can’t happen. What is so exciting is now more than ever before, we can be a catalyst to something special happening within our movement.

Given our collective resources, and through partnering with our Bible [...]

“…The racial problem has been the unresolved dilemma in America. It has gone on since its inception because its roots have not been addressed by the people who are most qualified to address it: The Church!” (Dr. Tony Evans)

When I saw this video I knew I had to share it with the Dream Of Destiny [...]

Dream of Destiny 5 Star Initiative from Shepherd Youth on Vimeo.

I have been reading a book called Bus Ride to Justice by Fred Gray, a lawyer for Rosa Parks who was arrested on December 1st, 1955 for sitting where she was NOT supposed to sit. As you know, African Americans were supposed to sit in [...]

“Diversity In The Church is Not Possible!” As leaders, that is what many of us say with our actions. As we head up, or help lead our churches and ministries often time, without realizing it, we settle into an false idea that ethnic diversity is an important issue, but pragmatically just not possible. [...]

(This is a guest post from Dudley Rutherford, Lead pastor of Shepherd Of The Hills Church. His heart felt thoughts on Haiti)

“Many are wondering who caused this earthquake. You might be surprised to know how many people have asked me, “Was this the devil? Or was this God?” My answer may or may NOT [...]