MFSA Racial Audit Team Expansion
In June 2023, the Methodist Federation for Social Action Board of Directors took a clear step forward by creating the Racial Audit Implementation Team. This team was formed in response to the findings of MFSA’s racial audit, with a shared goal: to help reshape the organization so that equity and justice are not just values we name, but practices we live out—within MFSA, across the church, and in the world around us.
Since then, this team has been doing the steady, often behind-the-scenes work of implementing the Racial Audit's recommendations. Originally composed of seven members, the team has been guiding how these recommendations take root in real structures, relationships, and decisions. Now, that work is growing.
We’re expanding the team with two new members: Julius David and Deaconess Megan Hale.
Julius David brings more than 25 years of involvement at East Lake United Methodist Church in Florida, along with leadership in disaster recovery, interfaith justice work through FAST (Faith & Action for Strength Together, a local inter-faith congregation-based justice group), and district-level anti-racism efforts. His experience spans both church leadership and community organizing, grounded in a consistent commitment to compassion and justice—especially for those whose voices are too often overlooked.
Megan Hale brings a deep connection to both the history and future of justice work in the church. A consecrated deaconess in the United Methodist Church, she has served in leadership roles in Reconciling Ministries and social justice advocacy across multiple regions. With academic training in theology and social justice, and ongoing involvement in MFSA’s New York Chapter, Megan’s work is rooted in both lived experience and a long tradition of faith-based organizing for change.
The work of the racial audit team and the implementation team is important, and that’s why we continue to invest in it. The racial audit is not a finished report sitting on a shelf. It’s an ongoing invitation—to listen more closely, to act more faithfully, and to keep becoming a community where justice is practiced, not just proclaimed.
