Christians Supporting Community Organizing

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Summary:

Christians Supporting Community Organizing provides congregations with the biblical, theological, and historical underpinnings of congregation-based community organizing.  In addition, it helps to link churches with the 200 congregation-based community organizing projects that now exist in the major metropolitan areas of the United States.  This website provides many articles by church leaders in the evangelical, Holiness, and Pentecostal traditions supporting the Scriptural foundation for involvement in community organizing.

Why does FASTEN recommend this resource?

This web site explains the biblical mandate for congregations to become involved in community organizing to work for justice for the poor and marginalized and helps them to connect with existing faith-based community organizing groups.  In addition, Christians Supporting Community Organizing provides practical help for churches wanting to get involved.  Its DVD series, “Building a People of Power,” helps congregations to work from a biblical framework for substantive systemic change in the world.  Leaders in the area of faith-based community organizing provide teaching on biblical principles and biblical models showing how God’s people can work for justice and help bring about dramatic transformation in their city or country’s systems and structures.