One of the biggest problems facing the world today is a lack of unity. This lack of unity is often a result of ignorance. People often do not understand other people’s problems. This can lead to conflict and a general lack of unity. To put and end to the conflicts, people need to understand where others are coming from. If one person understands where another person is coming from, they will be more likely to sympathize with them and less likely to start a conflict with them. For a person to understand where another is coming from, that person has to have knowledge. Therefore through knowledge we can conquer the lack of unity that plagues the world today. I have created a plan that will bring about unity through the spread of knowledge.
In order to spread knowledge, I have decided to either create an organization or join an organization that will positively influence people to accept others. I will actively spread the message of the program to help persuade people to join. Once some people start joining, they will hopefully influence others to join as well. And the farther the message is spread, more people will join. And for every additional person that becomes a part of this organization, there will be that much more unity here on earth. As more and more people join, it will be easier and easier for the message, of accepting others and promoting unity, to spread. And the more the message spreads, the more united the world will be. Eventually after enough people have accepted the message and joined, everyone will be unified and instead of having constant conflict in the world, the world will reach a state of true peace. By true peace I mean to say that everyone will learn how to accept and respect the differences of others.
What kind of organization could take on such a challenge, accepting any and everyone, and teaching them how to respect others? A church would be the perfect place to spread this message. Churches do not shut their doors to people based on their differences. Anyone and everyone, from the man dressed in his brand new Sunday clothes to the man who came off the street in torn up rags, is accepted into a church. Churches do not discriminate against people and this type of organization can not discriminate against people. If this organization discriminated against any person regardless of the reason, it would undermine the very purpose of its own existence. Another good reason for this organization to be associated or part of the church, is because most churches already have other programs running that are designed to help unify peoples and communities. A lot of churches have programs like boy scouts, girl scouts, community awareness groups, and fundraisers that are designed to help unify people (most often of that community around the church) by catering to their needs. For example, if a community hospital near the church was having financial problems, the church might take action to help out the hospital. The church might have some type of fundraiser that helped the hospital stay functional and provide its much needed service to the community. It seems to me that a church essentially is an organization that promotes unity.
Even though there are a plethora of good things that a church brings to the table, at the same time there are a plethora of bad things that a church brings to the table. The first bad thing that comes from the church is maintenance. Churches cost a lot of money to maintain. To have a facility that is large enough to hold enough people that can truly spread the message and get the wheels turning costs money. Members of this organization would have to realize that in order to be able to spread the message of unity to people, it will cost money to ensure that the needed facilities are available. Once a small church gets enough members, the church will have two decisions that both cost money. The church will either spend money to make better use of the space they have and add on to the actual building or the church will spend money on buying new land and creating another church in addition to the one that already exists. It is clear that as more and more people join, it will cost more and more money to ensure that everyone will be able to receive and spread the message.
Another disadvantage to the church is that the church is already divided. There are many different types of churches with many different types of beliefs. It would be difficult to persuade people to join an organization that is very dependent on a church that they do not agree with religiously. In order for an organization that has such a universal goal to spread, it must spread in the already established church structure. Therefore instead of associating the organization with a single church or type of church, the organization needs to be associated with every church. If the organization became a program that spread to every church, it would be easier to spread. So instead of setting up an entire new system that has to spread itself and fund itself, this organization could be one of the many programs that the church already runs. Once enough churches start running this new program and once enough people join the organization and participate in the program, it will spread itself by the simple fact that it exists and people are active in it.
What will this organization literally do? This organization will meet on a regular basis, most likely weekly, and plan ways to go out into the community and promote unity. Through activities like painting murals and gardening or helping maintain public parks, this organization will make its presence known in the community. After the community realizes the positive things that this organization can bring, people will begin to join and help spread the message. The more people that join, the easier it will be to clean, maintain, fix whatever it is that needs to be done to help people in the community. And the more people that join the organization, the bigger the “community” will be. At first the community will just be the area close to the organizations base, but, as people join and support the effort, the organizations “community” will spread and spread to the point where it is bigger than just the community. It will become a network or communities. And the more the message spreads, the bigger the network until eventually the network or community becomes one. The network becomes one because at this point the whole world will be connected by this common goal.

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