Audio by year 2009

Andrew Sears talks with Northwestern Radio's Neil Stavem about the positive effects that a negative economy has had on the growth of volunteering. As the exective director of TechMission and ChristianVolunteering.org, Sears' is interested in trends that lead to more people, especially young people, turning towards service and volunteering. For more, read Sears' article "Bad Times Make Good Neighbors: An Increase in Christian Volunteering Due to Economy".

This is the audio section of a power point presentation on funding bias of grant foundations.

by Jamaal Bernard
Talk presented Sat, Jan. 17, 2009 on the Urban Youth Workers Institute Conference RELOAD 08-09 tour.
Local workshop put on by the New York RELOAD Team.

by Marvin Daniels
Talk presented Sat, March 28, 2009 on the Urban Youth Workers Institute RELOAD 08-09 tour.

Morning General Session

by Harvey Carey
Talk presented Sat, Jan. 17, 2009 at the Urban Youth Workers Institute RELOAD New York 08-09.

by Eric Mason
Talk presented Saturday, March 14, 2009 at the Urban Youth Workers Institute RELOAD 08-09 Philadelphia.

by Larry Acosta
Talk presented Sat, Jan. 17, 2009 at the Urban Youth Workers Institute RELOAD New York 08-09.

by Eric Mason
Talk presented Sat, March 14, 2009 at the Urban Youth Workers Institute RELOAD Philadelphia 08-09.
Evening General Session

Dr. A.R. Bernard, Ron Luce, Larry Acosta, Virginia Ward, Patrick Pierre, Adam Durso
Talk presented Sat, Jan. 17, 2009 at the Urban Youth Workers Institute RELOAD 08-09 New York.

by Robin Bell
Talk presented Sat, Feb. 21, 2009 on the Urban Youth Workers Institute RELOAD 08-09 tour.
Local workshop put on by the Minneapolis RELOAD Team.

by William Branch “The Ambassador”
Talk presented Sat, Jan. 17, 2009 at the Urban Youth Workers Institute Conference 2009.
Local workshop put on by the New York RELOAD Team.

This workshop shares the CLUE-LA original organizing approach, or ‘faith-rooted’ organizing. It enables faith leaders to contribute their unique gifts and resources to collaborative campaigns for economic justice. Participating in campaigns to remove barriers (like the broken immigration system) that keep workers from full voice and inclusion, are discussed.

Sustaining a vibrant ministry in the city requires a balance of loving God and man (Micah 6:8). This workshop focuses on the spiritual life of the urban worker, encouraging a prayerful, passionate walk with the Lord, characterized by holiness, humility and compassion.

Come and learn the basics of Christian Community Development from CCDA’s co-founders. They share the history and principles of our association and its vision to holistically restore communities with Christians fully engaged in the process of transformation.

Imagine a world where families, youth workers and ministries partner with police officers to mentor students, helping them find God’s hope—a world where Christians care for law enforcement as they protect our urban streets (as the Apostle Paul impacted his jailers in Acts 16). This workshop offers ways to pursue reconciliation and collaboration with police, provides understanding to law enforcement, and discusses police chaplaincy.

An increasing number of youth are not coming to church. How do we meet them where they are? What is the true definition of outreach? How do we address wounds that might have been caused by the church? This workshop focuses on creative ways to minister to youth who wouldn’t walk through your church’s front door.

This workshop introduces an approach to transformational development that holds the role of children and youth paramount—both as beneficiaries and as change agents. Community youth development inspires the way a neighborhood and the young people in it are viewed. Youth participants are challenged to take increased responsibility for God’s transformation of their community, working in synergy and solidarity with adults. Interactive.

What is your current job description? How do your ministry responsibilities align with your calling, skills, spiritual gifts and natural talents? This workshop helps participants gain clarity about how they are wired by God and examines how their gifts, passion and team style can be leveraged for maximum Kingdom impact.

This workshop provides snapshots of successful projects that have been implemented to serve communities in need. The range of programs include community development housing projects for the elderly and familystrengthening educational programs.

We can so easily fail if we have the wrong goal in discipling another person. This workshop covers the Biblical foundations we must lay in the life of another as we trust God in discipleship. Participants examine the role of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in disciple-making and answer the question, ‘What is a disciple?’

Good food should be a right, not a luxury. Yet many poor rural and urban communities don’t have access to fresh vegetables or the means to prepare them. This workshop offers two methods for providing access to good food: building a community garden or farm, and linking farmers directly to customers.

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.

Union Rescue Mission works to overcome NIMBYism and provide opportunities for homeless people. This workshop offers a video presentation sharing the ministry’s work and provides strategies on how to be a blessing to homeless friends, identify available tools and use local media in meeting opposition.

When the world talks about RR it speaks of minimizing differences and emphasizing similarities. But when Christ calls his church to RR, He has very different goals. Here, diversity should be celebrated and assimilation should be the exception. Unfortunately, the church often pursues a worldly view of RR. This seminar exhorts attendees to look deeply at their own practices of RR, and challenges participants to let the blood of Christ bring unity.

Affordable housing redistributes land and removes it from the speculative market. They are many ways to create affordable housing: Sweat equity (Habitat for Humanity), shared equity (Coops, Community Land Trusts), Adaptive Reuse, CoHousing and much more. Examine 15 models that have been tried and proven by churches across the US. Look at resources for partnerships and explore how to choose the right partners, and learn how to use a tool that can discern what housing models may be the most appropriate for your community.

This interactive workshop is based around a story of relocation from Chicago’s business community to a fastgrowing suburban LA church. Learn from Diane Miller’s experiences as she shares about her move and how it caused her to understand new ways of connecting in our third culture world.

This workshop focuses on both head and heart and examines key principles to understand and apply when building biblical, multi-ethnic community. Beware: These seven Bible-based principles can change your life and your ministry!

When we take an asset-based community development approach to looking at church we discover that what is needed most in our communities is not more congregations, but more unity of mission among Christians. This workshop offers stories of community development in a small city that once held the record for most churches per capita, and provides ideas about fostering unity in the churches of your city.

Many CCD practitioners have amazing stories to tell about God’s provision, transformed lives or a revived urban street. You’ve learned principles, insights and best practices that are important to share with other CCDers in book form, but how do you get a book written? This workshop, co-taught by an experienced book editor and a six-time author, teaches the basics of navigating the changing publishing world. Interactive.

New Song’s vision is to live out kingdom priorities in Sandtown by loving God and loving their neighbors, doing daily works of justice together on behalf of the community. This workshop discusses the origins of this ministry of education in an urban context, and shares how it established a neighborhood-based wholistic school that offers educational justice for its children.

The poor are isolated by more than economics. Inadequacies in transportation, family support, aid agencies, and even the unique poverty culture erect a series of walls that keep the poor, poor. This workshop unpacks the major barriers to individual and community transformation, and looks at one model for tearing down the walls.

Scripture describes godly leaders as people who attend to their families and important relationships, care for their bodies, and live in moderation. Balanced living is seen as both a means to, and a byproduct of, godly living. Effective leaders understand the importance of balance in life. This workshop teaches participants how to identify priorities, examine use of time, and develop personal growth plans.

This workshop helps youth pastors understand the demographic of the students they are trying to reach and the culture of the youth in their city. Participants learn how to be relevant without losing the relevant message of the Gospel, and discuss programming, effective discipleship, the development of student leaders, and more.

As a leader in ministry, how do you juggle being a wife and a mom? Can you do it all? How do you support your husband while functioning in a defined ministry leadership role? How do you let your family know that they come first? This workshop helps women who grapple with attempting to do it all while constantly feeling like it is never enough.

What is gentrification with justice? What does it mean to participate in transforming a distressed neighborhood? And are we asking the right questions? FCS Urban Ministries celebrates 30 years of learning in urban Atlanta. In this workshop, FCS founder Dr. Bob Lupton, along with FCS directors and staffers, share their story. Participants discover how asking questions shapes neighborhood action, and learn how to collaborate, cut costs and join God in the city.

This workshop is an informal discussion time with Shane. He’ll open things up by sharing a few thoughts, but most of the workshop will be Q&A, discussing ideas, plotting goodness, and stirring up holy mischief. Feel free to bring food, especially if it’s chocolate.

Speak out in solidarity with the children, youth, and families impacted by poverty in America. This workshop presents World Vision’s domestic advocacy platform and provides skills and examples for the civic voice and action of community development practitioners. Biblical foundations and principles of advocacy are included. Participants are equipped to subvert the oppressive systems of their community as advocates for change and increased child well-being.

This workshop teaches participants how to mobilize community, faith-based, governmental, social service, and private resources in a collaborative manner to address all areas of life, empowering those in poverty to attain lasting independence.

God consistently uses the unlikely—the weak, the foolish, the young and the small—to bring down giant enemies. This workshop examines Biblical principles of the small and weak taking on big challenges, and discusses how to apply those principles to issues that might seem overwhelming in community development. Participants look at modern day CCDA heroes who are identifying big issues and courageously and effectively, taking them on in the name of Jesus.

Over eighty percent of children who grow up in the Church will denounce their faith by the second year of college. Youth pastors and teachers have an incredible opportunity to shape the lives of the next generation, “warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ” (Col. 1:28). This workshop explores writing lessons that will challenge hearts, producing hunger and obedience to God in a crooked world.

This workshop challenges participants to the biblical call to act justly, and offers an opportunity to practice these steps together: naming systems that keep people poor; listing the stakeholders (those affected); creating alternatives; working with policy makers; producing a campaign; and, growing the ‘we.’

In the book of Acts, believers embarked upon a dramatic restructuring of their economic lives so that there was no poverty among them. This workshop explores modern attempts to recapture this change through communal and cooperative structures that allow members to engage at various comfort levels. It offers practical tips for building cooperative structures.

Ministries bring the Kingdom of God near to those they serve on a daily basis. This workshop connects to the theme of Pursuing Kingdom Priorities by encouraging participants who believe God is calling them to begin a new CCD ministry. It helps participants answer the question “Should I start a non-profit?” and provides an understanding of the steps required legally form a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization.

Urban young people face many adversities and challenges simply by growing up in an urban environment. The need for nurturing and consistent adult relationships is essential. This workshop offers practical guidelines on how to utilize discipleship as a form of mentoring that can transform a young person’s relationship with Jesus Christ.

In an increasingly culturally diverse world, the church is called to exhibit God’s Shalom. Participants in this workshop learn how the church can develop crosscultural skills and multi-cultural competencies to further the work of biblical racial reconciliation.

There are more than seven million Muslims living in America. This workshop teaches participants how to understand, love and partner with Muslims in their community. While examing the scope of the Muslim world, tenets of Islam, barriers in relating, and the precedent for being peacemaker.

The current financial and economic crisis is not fundamentally a matter of greed or stupidity’ (David Brooks). It is caused by a designed system of oppression, lobbied for in Congress, in which the poor suffering the most. This workshop examines the historical roots of economic systems of oppression in America.

This workshop investigates Kingdom Priorities through the lens of Shalom. Participants journey back to the garden to investigate the relationships God proclaimed ‘very good’ at the close of the sixth day, and unpacks the dynamics of The Fall, making clear what redemption looks like today.

This workshop explores the power of arts and culture for neighborhood transformation as seen through the lens of Kaleidoscope, a community youth arts program. It focuses on the role of the arts in enforcing the Kingdom Priorities of creative Subversion, Symphony celebrations, and Solidarity with urban youth through hip-hop culture.

This workshop explores the essential components of experiential learning, and examines how disciples are guided through phases of transformation into new levels of leadership in the city. Participants examine the role of disorientation and dissonance in the urban experience, and learn how to fruitfully leverage these for personal and community shalom. Pathways for civic engagement that church and non-profit leaders can design for those they lead, are presented.

We are taught to pray with our eyes closed and hands folded so we are not distracted. Yet we must ask, ‘Can the world swirling around us actually draw us nearer to God?’ Participants in this workshop learn to see the spiritual potential in ordinary activities and discover how to live creatively, be more whole and more present, and maybe even have fun! Take-home tools for personal and group use are provided.

Using current research as well as Christian literature, this workshop offers couples powerful, practical and effective tools for building marriages amid the stresses of doing Christian Community Development. Couples experience a very structured workshop resulting in fun, tears, laughter, and a deepening of relationship (without the pressure of small group dynamics).

Teaching life economics to our youth not only affects them individually, but also impacts their entire community. Our organization’s mission to relieve systemic and generational poverty requires that students learn to navigate through our country’s financial systems to avoid getting stuck in patterns of poverty. This workshop discusses God’s perspective on economics and how Kingdom values on this subject are integrated into our youth programs.

An accurate reflection of God’s Kingdom includes people living, worshipping and working together in synergistic relationships. That synergy is often broken because of misunderstandings, ignorance and a lack of communication. This workshop promotes synergy through understanding and dialogue about tough subjects related to race and economics.

In disciple-making we need more than foundations, we need building blocks. This workshop presents a biblical, theological and practical framework for participants to work their own approach to disciple-making in their local contexts. Participants explore some of the tough questions and issues that prevent people from making disciples, and receive tools that will help them disciple in an authentic manner.

Discussions about immigration can become debate about economic benefits and costs, cultural assimilation, and law enforcement. Even among Christians, this is where the conversation gets stuck. Does the Bible say anything about those who migrate and how to respond to outsiders? If we began the discussion with the Bible, would the tone of our dialogues change? This workshop shows how much the Bible addresses the realities of immigration and what God expects of His people.

Churches and non-profits in partnership provide a picture of the Kingdom of God. How can churches in the community work effectively with other organizations? This workshop presents the basic principles for building collaborations at various levels, and provides practical tools to assist in the establishment of successful partnerships.

While ‘health and wealth’ proponents urge Christians to claim material blessings, others insist that God’s best gifts can’t be enjoyed until heaven. God’s intentions are far greater than either perspective. Workshop participants learn how to step into the good life God wants us to enjoy here and now—a liberating approach to living that leads to lasting satisfaction. It explores Jesus’ teachings on money and presents five tactics for living in God’s economy of abundance.

The hood is a physically dangerous place to live–not just because of crime. People who work and live in under-resourced communities are prone to suffer from looming health disparities that affect both mortality and morbidity. But it doesn’t have to be that way. This workshop looks at health issues common in the hood and their causes, and offers practical and effective ways to help eliminate them.

Many CCD professionals have incredible vision and passion for what God is calling them to do, but struggle to manage an organization that can sustain their vision and passion. As a result, the vision is not realized and passion fades into frustration. This workshop teaches how to create and manage an organization that allows these dreams to become realities.

This workshop teaches how to recognize ‘the tyranny of the urgent’ and other means that some may use to manipulate us when doing ministry with homeless persons. Participants learn to develop skills for prioritizing demands while holding others accountable, avoid reinventing the wheel, and work smarter to prevent ministry fatigue and burn-out.

In New York, Boston, Portland, and Cincinnati, local faith and justice networks are emerging. These groups connect Christians who are seeking to organize with the poor and advocate for social and structural change. This workshop offers tools for starting a faith and justice network in your community or city.

This workshop explains the need to share street narratives in order to increase the synergy between ministries, individuals, churches, and other entities. A performance of ‘Stories from the Streets’ concludes with a time of Q&A and brainstorming about bringing more creativity into ministry presentations.

Anyone who serves in the city knows that urban ministry comes with unique stresses and challenges. The Fuller Youth Institute has surveyed more than 200 urban youth workers to try to understand how to best respond to stress in the city. This workshop offers Biblicallygrounded, practical tools to help youth workers who feel a little tired—or totally exhausted—learn to thrive (not just survive) as they juggle work, ministry, family, and friends.

Come and learn the basics of Christian Community Development from CCDA’s co-founders. They share the history and principles of our association and its vision to holistically restore communities with Christians fully engaged in the process of transformation.

In many communities, social service agencies, churches and community groups attempt social change by asking, “What needs to be fixed?” The ABCD framework looks at what the community itself can contribute to the change it desires. ABCD asks, “What’s right in this community?” This interactive workshop discusses the transformational power of this practical approach which moves services from betterment to development.

The workshop demonstrates how New Life International- Kenya builds partnerships with people in poor communities who live under constant threat of cholera, skin disease, diarrhea, and other water borne diseases. Participants will learn how New Life International provides both pure drinking water and Jesus’ Living Water in solidarity with the poor.

True wisdom manifests itself in decisions that are consistent with God’s long-term plans, not reactive decisions based on the challenges of the moment. Exercising leverage is all about making wise choices based on a deeper understanding of the ‘big picture,’ and includes an examination of what has led to the current situation and what may happen as a result of various courses of action. This workshop discusses how to reconceive one’s appoach to handling common situations in order to sustain leaders.

This workshop helps participants understand how faith in America is changing as the U.S. becomes a more secular, non-religious country. Emerging leaders must translate the principles of CCDA into this current reality and consider more vibrant ways of looking at our faith. Participants hear how a church in Cambridge, Massachusettes engages secular atheists in faith in Jesus, and in community development.

In order to communicate to this culture with authority you must be a more powerful listener. This workshop offers practical tools for communicating the Gospel to youth culture creatively and effectively. Participants learn know how to prepare and deliver a great message to students.

When the first Christian missionaries came to the Navajo people they unfortunately brought more than the Gospel. They also brought the message that God could only be worshiped through the Western culture. This workshop offers a collection of stories and lessons learned as Mark Charles journeys to understand what it means to be Navajo and Christian. Issues addressed include: contextualized worship, syncretism, racial reconciliation, diversity, respect for elders and time perception.

Self-injury, although it may seem temporarily helpful, is ultimately a dangerous and futile coping strategy which interferes with intimacy, productivity and happiness. This workshop teaches the risk-factors involved with SI and helps participants develop an arsenal of coping skills to aid those suffering from SI.

Americans carry trillions of dollars in consumer debt. The average household’s credit card debt is more than $8,000, up almost 15 percent from the year 2000. This workshop explains the causes of debt and the role community-based ministries can play in initiating frank, biblical discussions about money. Participants learn practical strategies for helping people build assets rather than debt by partnering with community credit unions, launching grassroots savings programs, addressing predatory lending institutions, and more.

“I need a job!” What do you do when someone says this? What if they are ex-offenders, have a poor work history, little education, or few skills? Despite these barriers, it can be relatively easy for a ministry to help them find and keep meaningful employment. This workshop explores Jobs for Life’s (JfL) proven, biblically-based strategy to prepare individuals for success at work. Participants learn how to use this powerful tool in their community.

In the best cases, resettling refugees into our cities provides a path to self-determination and empowerment. But it requires collaboration and a keen ear to the needs of the refugee community. This workshop explores the Refugee Empowerment Program’s (REP) model for ‘welcoming the stranger,’ as people of faith, volunteers, and people from the refugee’s new community act cohesively with refugee families. Special emphasis is placed on strengthening refugee leadership and examining resettlement best practices.

Q: How can the church empower the poor? A: Wrong question. This interactive workshop explores how to focus on power transfer, transformation of individuals and communities, and participation in making empowerment happen. It examines successful experiences, tools, including advocacy for justice issues, and resources in the new CCDA Empowerment workbook.

Through the use of video and oral presentation, this workshop demonstrates the value of the powerful cooperative model for creating community and honoring those who are in need of food. Participants experience the kingdom in action through a model that promotes solidarity, creating relationships that cross racial and class barriers.

Family and relationships are foundational to the healthy development of community, and marriage is a key component to family and relationships. Seventy percent of all African American children are born into single family homes. This is a major cause of poverty and neighborhood breakdown. This workshop discusses the implications of this crisis and presents potential solutions.

God is calling the “Church of the City” to be His agent on the front lines of hope. As the Old Testament prophet points out in Jeremiah 29:7, this is called “seeking the welfare (shalom) of the city!” This workshop shares the story of how Kingdom Causes/Let’s Partner and other ministries work to merge these three streams for the good/welfare of the city.

What happens when Bible-believing Christians get together with gays and lesbians—or gay Christians? Can something peaceful and productive happen for the Kingdom or must the relationship center around the same old fights, arguments and debates? This workshop intentionally brings all of the divisive topics and questions to the forefront. Participants discover what it means to learn, listen and understand, and glean ways to effectively build bridges within the gay and lesbian community.

Shalom, biblically and theologically, is fundamentally about restoring relationships and transforming places. “Loving God by loving neighbor” forms the relational core for living out Kingdom priorities. This does not just happen. This workshop helps participants develop simple habits for creating meaningful presence, which helps foster a neighborhood environment of participation in meaningful transformation. It discusses how this subverts a prevailing dependency on organizational projects and programming, and creates space for grasstroots energies to emerge.

“The Case” is the first essential ingredient in effectively communicating an organization’s needs to its constituents, and includes the mission and vision of the organization, its values, and the reasons why it is vital to the community. This workshop provides participants with resources and tools to tell their story to potential funders effectively and consistently.

iPods, iMacs and iPhones–the world spins in a blur of new technology that makes life, work and ministry more convenient. Yet we struggle with a nagging sense that something is “off.” This workshop offers the personal narrative, and a fresh reading of scripture, by former bloggers Chico and Tatiana Fajardo-Heflin. The couple shares the subtle dangers of modern technology and offers ways Christians can cultivate a healthy engagement (or disengagement) with the technological society.

Peter Heltzel and Peter Slade, contributors and editors of a book on the theological legacy of John Perkins, host this workshop along with chapter contributors: Charles Marsh (University of Virginia), Soong-Chan Rah (North Park University), Mae Cannon (Hillside Covenant Church), Lisa Sharon Harper (New York Faith and Justice), Noel Castellanos (CCDA), and Shane Claiborne (Simple Way - invited). Thoughts on how Dr. Perkins’ life, work and teaching influences the evangelical church, the CCDA movement and the study of theology, are shared.

This workshop offers an introduction to beginners in advocacy. It explores the Biblical basis and value core of why we as Christians advocate, and discusses the mandate to advocate on behalf of the poor. Practical applications and opportunities for advocacy with local and national issues are presented.

This workshop shares the story of starting a young adult ministry in inner-city Denver. Participants receive practical advice and insight into why reaching this age group is so critical to the future of God’s Kingdom. Open discussion invited.

It can be easy, in the midst of a youth focused program, to treat the parents as just something you have to deal with instead of individuals who need the love of Christ. Yet no matter how long we spend with the child, they still go home. This workshop discusses practical ideas of how to work with the parents and re-envision afterschool and youth programs as a way to reach the whole family.

Partnerships between youth and adults are critical to development. They revitalize existing ministries with fresh insight and strategy, and give young people new direction and purpose as valued leaders in change. This workshop explores the barriers to and benefits of youth-adult partnerships, and offers strategies to create, facilitate, and evaluate these partnerships. Participants are encouraged to invest in meaningful reconciliation between youth and adults in their community as they seek God’s shalom together.

Providing health care for your employees is very important and often very expensive. Utilizing biblically based Christian Healthcare Ministries (CHM) alongside a Health Reimbursement Arrangement (IRS Publication 969) can result in significant health care cost savings without compromising quality. In this workshop, participants learn the biblical basis for this option and see examples of how this model has worked for others in ministry.

There is a clear connection between today’s housing crisis and what Old Testament prophets proclaimed. The New Testament also speaks of housing and community connected to land and place. In this workshop, participants are inspired by the wealth of Scripture that refers to stewardship of land, housing and its just use. Participants discover the biblical foundations in U.S. housing policy and connect this theology to practice in their own communities.

What if church is the best answer we have to the problem of race? Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and Chanequa Walker-Barnes share their journeys from Klan country and black militancy to a common vision for life together in the body of Christ. They discuss how Christians, black and white, can rethink poverty, family, education, and health in the context of church beyond the color line.

How do leaders create space for collaboration? Is it worth the time and tears? Leroy and Nate are co-directing FCS Urban Ministries in Atlanta, and they are learning and leading together. This workshop dissects an urban coleadership model that involves partnership and creativity, and explores its underpinnings.

Participants learn about the environmental risks of urban light, and gain vision to develop partnerships that restore the ground corrupted by the kingdom of this world. Through meditating on Jesus’ prayer, “Thy kingdom come,” fresh eyes of faith are encouraged to take action toward environmental restoration, and the redevelopment of properties and structures for Kingdom use.

Rather than allow pundits and politicians to dirty the word redistribution, let’s reclaim it as a core aspect of biblical giving and sharing. Throughout Scripture there are examples of how individuals and communities redistributed their resources to ensure that there were no needy persons among them. This workshop seeks to redeem redistribution as a biblical example that the contemporary church should practice as an act of love from one broken human to another.

This method is used to facilitate group conversations and discussions that allow members of a group to share diverse perspectives in a non-confrontational manner and come to some resolution or decision. This workshop offers an exercise to help groups identify individual assets in the room, a Participatory Focused Conversation demonstration, a walkthrough, a discussion of theory, practice in small groups, and a reflection time.

This workshop focuses on understanding a biblical view of hospitality as a vital way to reach people. It helps participants understand what a refugee is and how one becomes a refugee, and offers a biblical view of the alien and stranger in the Scriptures. Practical ways for a church or ministry to reach out to refugees and immigrants in the city or community via hospitality as a method, based on Luke 10, are presented.

Are you in full-time ministry and sensing the need for a change, but hesitant to take the step? There are many questions associated with making the kind of decision that Rudy and Kafi Carrasco made this year - leaving the ministry positions they held for more than a decade and stepping out on faith into a brave new world with their children. Come and be encouraged by the Carrasco’s adventure.

Spiritual development is, in part, a constant, dynamic, and sometimes difficult interplay between three core spiritual components: awareness and awakening, connecting and belonging, and a way of life. This workshop looks at these spiritual components discovered from three years of Search Institute’s research, and challenges participants to see how each component can help build a ministry that not only entertains kids, but develops them spiritually.

The faith-based community has a lot to offer public schools and other youth-serving community agencies, but need to know how to partner with them effectively. Participants in this workshop explore aspects of communication, programming, networking, and posturing that help faith-based organizations to be good partners to public schools, detention centers, libraries, and social service organizations. World Vision’s decades of lessons learned seeking God’s kingdom in relationship with public agencies, are presented.

Are the urban poor being displaced into your suburban church neighborhood? Let the Kingdom come! This workshop explains how a suburban church can respond in a wholistic, Jesus-centered way as the surrounding community becomes increasingly populated by people displaced from the urban center.

CCDA’s leaders field questions about the status and vision of our association.

This workshop is designed to introduce youth workers to a biblically based program that will transform the lives of at-risk children in their community, church, or neighborhood. Participants learn how to design a weekly program, how to share the Gospel with children, and how to keep relationships central in the midst of a packed program schedule. Helpful websites and resources such as educational materials and computer software, are presented.

Research suggests that a youth’s bond with school, access to caring adults, and involvement in structured after-school activities are developmental assets that help reduce at-risk behaviors. This workshop presents the HOPE-TALKS mentoring model that focuses on developing youth leadership skills using both peer-to-peer and youth-adult interactions, and the TALKS Mentoring Curriculum which has used ‘Talks My Father/Mother Never Had With Me” in schools since 1995.

Understanding the national budget as a “moral document,” how is the Church to interpret a defense budget that nearly exceeds the military budgets of all other nations combined? As CCD practitioners, we must grapple with how our military spending directly, or indirectly, propagates impoverished communities here and abroad. In this workshop, participants will discuss how the Church should proclaim, and embody, the peace of Christ amid these realities.

How do we effectively disciple someone? This workshop looks at the practical side of disciple-making and offers take away tools to put into practice with those we are discipling. Participants are introduced to a four-step process for laying the building blocks of discipleship in another’s life. Follow up to the Building Blocks of Disciple-Making workshop.

Suburban partners want to be more than ATMs for the urban ministries they help support. God has provided a unique opportunity and responsibility to help these partners understand and engage in the issues that shape your city and the community development work you do. This workshop spotlights resources and ideas for building this crucial urban-suburban bridge.

In order to have synergy, solidarity, and symphony with and among the poor, we must realize that different organizations serve different purposes that impact ministry effectiveness, longevity and fulfillment. This workshop discusses the five organizational structures that CCD functions within here in America.

The workshop follows the framework of the book of the same title and examines concepts of poverty, the relief-to-development continuum, asset versus needs based approaches, and the role of the poor in their own development. The danger of the short term missions movement, in terms of addressing the needs of the poor, is also briefly addressed.

This workshop is both didactic and experiential, involving participants in adult learning activities to increase their understanding of the impact of children with incarcerated parents. It features a ‘virtual visitation’ to assist youth, their families and caretakers, and their incarcerated parents.

Jesus knew we needed to learn from young people and not hinder them. We can learn to practically engage the passion, experience, and wisdom of young people as they identify and address important issues affecting them. This workshop shares curriculum that has been implemented in nine U.S. cities. Participants see the inspirational ways youth seek shalom in their communities when given a chance and a voice, and discover an effective model for youth civic engagement and advocacy.

As members of the body of Christ, we are called to reflect the Trinity who is without hierarchy and is in perfect communion. Using non-hierarchal unity as a lens, this workshop reexamines key CCD principles using Rebuilding the Wall, a CCD ministry in Indianapolis, as the context for dialogue.

Despite outspending every other nation to provide health care for its people, the U.S. fails to measure up in many basic measures of health status, and leaves millions uninsured and without adequate access to health care services. This workshop examines the evolution of the U.S. Health Care system and attempts to predict future trends, especially as it impacts our ability to care for the disenfranchised.

Community organizing is often associated with taking or getting power. But a more sustainable approach is to build the capacity of community members to exercise the power they already have. This workshop touches on three different approaches to community organizing, and focuses on practical tools for convening community members, building consensus and prioritizing actions.

This workshop describes specific federal funding opportunities and major private grant funding programs that faith-based community developers should consider. The current status of the ARRA stimulus bill and 2010 federal budget is presented in connection to grant opportunities.

This workshop will discuss the everyday issues that challenge the marriages of couples working together in ministry. Come for an honest discussion on how to communicate the issues and also how to work through the issues with one another. This workshop will help you with some practical ways to have a great marriage and work together successfully in ministry.

Are you evaluating whether your current facility meets your needs? Are you engaged in developing an overall real-estate strategy for the future of your ministry? This workshop helps participants meet the exciting challenges of growth and development and assists in facilitycreation.

Small cities and rural areas have the same problems as big cities, the area is just smaller. How do you relocate, reconcile and restore in small areas that need Christ in the same ways as the larger demographic areas do? This workshop brings the perspective of a practicioner who started in ministry to a rural area and was led to relocate to a small city.

Based on material from their new book of the same title, Shane and John will speak about re-imagining leadership. This workshop is a cross-generational conversation that looks at both old and new ideas for building disciples and movements.

This workshop shares the journey of planting a center-city church in partnership with suburban churches, which provides life-transformation and holistic development for the poor, marginalized and homeless. It discusses proven pathways of city transformation through church collaborations with social and government agencies, and identifies effective entry points for building trust with a transient community.

What is the relationship between the built environment and a healthy and just neighborhood? New Urbanism is a movement in city planning and urban design attempting to create infrastructure(s) conducive to healthy, vibrant neighborhoods. Participants discuss how the physical structure of the neighborhood (sidewalks, roads, buildings, greenspace) strongly shapes communitybuilding, public health, safety, civic-mindedness, and both economic and environmental sustainability. Awardwinning video and slides shown.

Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) are a constructive way to redistribute the wealth wholistically, and contribute to economoc stability and household well-being. This workshop walks participants through the importance and unique role of assets in the lives of households, particularly poor households, and provides an understanding of the basic components of IDAs. It also looks at asset distribution in America and uncovers historic factors that have contributed to the inequality we see today.

How do we move from the world’s shallow visions of peace and justice to a deeper journey with God, one that goes from diversity to koinonia? This workshop engages a word-made-flesh vision of reconciliation as a journey in concrete places of brokenness that is richly theological, contextual, and practical. Stories and experiments of hope in both Africa and America are presented.

Living out Christ’s call to respond to the needs of the least of these is a vital component of the Gospel message. This workshop, based on the title of Cannon’s book, provides practical tools for moving individuals, communities, and churches from apathy to advocacy for Jesus’ sake. It teaches the Biblical process of spiritual transformation and new birth necessary to become an advocate for the poor and oppressed.

Suburban churches and ministries desire to help those in need and often have many resources with which to provide assistance. Urban churches and ministries are often connected to neighborhood leaders who understand the culture and the people of their communities. By joining forces, the power of the Gospel can be demonstrated and communities can be transformed. This workshop provides principles and practical tools to achieve this, as well as real life stories.

Matthew 6:10 underscores the very essence of why we do what we do as CCD practitioners: “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” This workshop unpacks what it means to pursue Kingdom Priorities and live missionally. It employs both the rhetoric of theology and practical application in an effort to demonstrate how to obtain solidarity with the poor.

Accountability relationships, including mentoring, coaching and peer review, are increasingly popular–and vitally important–components of leadership development programs. They are used in business, government, nonprofit organizations and ministry. Too often, the ‘busyness’ of ministry makes it difficult to maintain these critically important relationships, and we lose the benefit of both the encouragement and correction they offer. This workshop teaches participants the value of personal reflection, open sharing, and supportive accountability relationships.

This workshop, taught by a CCD veteran, focuses on economic development and asset building with some attention to multigenerational cooperation. It acknowledges the current economic struggle, but also seeks to reawaken the spirit of asset-based community development by emphasizing jobs, advocacy and social entrepreneurship.

Personal leadership transition can be one of the most stressful and challenging seasons of a leader’s life. Using Dr. Robert Clinton’s ‘Six Stages of Leadership Development’ as a foundation, this workshop discusses the phases and steps in the development of a leader’s life. It examines strategies for finding success amid new challenges and staying ‘centered’ when things are changing. The unique challenges of leaders in their 20’s and 30’s are addressed. Interactive.

CCDA presents Barbara Williams-Skinner & Soong-Chan Rah delivering the Wednesday evening general session messages at the CCDA 2009 national conference. The messages are centered around the theme, "Subversion: Pursuing New Approaches to Activism".

CCDA presents Wayne Gordon delivering the Thursday morning general session message entitled, "President's Report", given at the CCDA 2009 national conference. 

CCDA presents Gabriel Salguero and Jim Wallis delivering the Thursday evening general session messages around the theme, "Synergy: Pursuing a New Commitment to Partnership". The messages were given at the CCDA 2009 national conference.

CCDA presents a discussion panel on "Singles in Ministry" featuring Wayne Gordon, Marcos Gamez, Elizabeth Perkins, Crissy Brooks & Shane Claiborne. This conversation was held at the Friday morning plenary session of the CCDA 2009 national conference.

CCDA presents Noel Castellanos delivering the Saturday morning general session message entitled, "Message from the CEO", at the CCDA 2009 national conference.

CCDA presents Dr. John Perkins delivering his Thursday morning Bible study at the CCDA 2009 national conference.

CCDA presents Dr. John Perkins delivering his Firday morning Bible study at the CCDA 2009 national conference.

CCDA presents Dr. John Perkins delivering his Saturday morning bible study at the CCDA 2009 national conference.

 CCDA presents Dr. John Perkins delivering his Sunday morning bible study at the CCDA 2009 national conference.

CCDA presents Barbara Williams-Skinner & Noel Castellanos holding a special institute workshop on "Reconciliation". The workshop was held prior to the start of the CCDA 2009 national conference.

CCDA presents Wayne Gordon holding a special institute workshop on "Indigenous Leadership Development". The workshop was held prior to the start of the CCDA 2009 national conference.

CCDA presents Daniel White Hodge holding a special institute workshop on "Developmental Youth Ministry". The workshop was held prior to the start of the CCDA 2009 national conference.

CCDA presents Bob Lupton holding a special institute workshop on empowerment. The workshop was held prior to the start of the CCDA 2009 national conference.

CCDA presents Craig Wong & John Liotti holding a special institute workshop on redistribution. The workshop was held prior to the start of the CCDA 2009 national conference.

CCDA presents Mary Nelson holding a special institute workshop on "Listening to the Community". The workshop was held prior to the start of the CCDA 2009 national conference. 

Immigration symposia description: How do we as Christians think about and respons to the immigration issue? What does the Bible say about immigration? What are some ways Christians are choosing to respond? Hear a diverse panel of leaders speak about and explain their different theological and organization responses to immigration and the need for policy reform. The Church is moving on immigration; don't miss this opportunity to be a part of what God is doing!

Housing Symposia description: Come make music with us and interact with leaders who are very accomplished at resurrecting hope in the housing ministry. We will explore varied models and futures in light of the complex housing crisis. This symposium will incorporate a strong mix of information and innovation. Whether you have broad experience in housing ministry or are just "peekin' in the window", contribute your heart and voice to the synergy of the CCDA housing symphony!

‘Dealin’ with fate, hopin’ God don’t close tha Gate!’ Hip hoppers have a deep sense of spirituality, God, and Christ. However, some churches misunderstand the hip hop community and its theology. Are you brave enough to enter into this hostile Gospel? This workshop presents years of research and experience on and in the hip hop community. Dr. Hodge also discusses his new book ‘The Soul of Hip Hop: Rims, Timbs, & The Theology of a Culture.’

Partnerships between youth and adults are critical to development. They revitalize existing ministries with fresh insight and strategy, and give young people new direction and purpose as valued leaders in change. This workshop explores the barriers to and benefits of youth-adult partnerships, and offers strategies to create, facilitate, and evaluate these partnerships. Participants are encouraged to invest in meaningful reconciliation between youth and adults in their community as they seek God’s shalom together.

This workshop chronicles how a large suburban, multisite church used compassion, partnerships, community development, and social justice work in an underresourced, primarily Hispanic community. This laid the groundwork for the launch of a bilingual congregation which is part of a larger Micah 6:8 community development strategy of “acting justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God.”

CCDA presents Bart Campolo and Alexia Salvatierra delivering the Friday evening general session messages at the CCDA 2009 national conference.

CCDA presents Matthew Watts and Shane Claiborne delivering the Saturday evening general session messages at the CCDA 2009 national conference. Their messages are centered around the theme: "Simplicity--Pursing New Perspectives on Redistribution".

Ray Bakke and William “Duce” Branch (The Ambassador) Talk presented Sat, May 20, 2006 at the Urban Youth Workers Institute Conference 2006. The Kingdom of God stretches out beyond our prejudices and the walls we have built in the church and is welcoming to everyone.