Audio by artist amy_sherman

CCDA's third "R" (redistribution) refers to the economic empowerment and justice that can result from creative, accountable stewardship. This workshop explores the Biblical foundations and give an overview of the value and releveance of the ELE:VATE project for CCDA ministries.

CCDA’s third “R” (redistribution) refers to the economic empowerment and justice that can result from creative, accountable stewardship. This workshop explores the Biblical foundations of stewardship that brings economic transformation, with a special focus on understanding the free market.

(Economis 1 is a pre-requisite session for Economis 2.)  This session provides a live demonstration of Economis, an interactive, online “mini-economy” you can use with youth to teach them financial life skills.  Economis is being used with students at Wheeler Mission’s community center as well as several other Christian after school programs and schools around the country.  Economis is suitable for all grades but especially works well with middle school students.  It offers an experiential way for youth to learn about personal money management, saving, and investing and also serves as outcome-tracking software for your youth ministry.

Measuring Your Effectiveness: Tools and Best Practices

Effective ministries that truly advance community shalom set concrete outcome goals and know how to measure, document, and communicate their progress to stakeholders. This workshop offers practical assessment tools, how to’s on establishing indicators, and information on identifying best practices against which to measure your program model(s).

By Amy Sherman

FASTEN (Faith And Service Technical Education Network) offers a website rich with hundreds of practical, relevant resources for urban youth workers. It includes how-to skills, model programs, free curriculum, grant writing advice, information on best practices, and more. Come see his demo of the website, and take advantage of all fasten has to offer your ministry.

Effective ministries that truly advance community shalom set concrete goals and know how to measure, document, and communicate their progress to stakeholders. This workshop offers practical assessment tools, how-to’s on establishing indicators, and information on identifying best practices against which to measure program models.