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Angela and Patrice share about what it was like being a MC and kids in ministry all their lives. Now that they are young adults they find themselves following in their families' footsteps. Patrice is a youth worker for young women at Lawndale Community Church and Angela is an elementary teacher at the Circle Rock Preparatory School.

This workshop will provide lessons regarding economic development, gentrification, and reconciliation taken from one of the Bible's first community developers.

Are the pressures of life in ministry overwhelming you? Are you looking for a life that is less SUBS? People in urban ministries often feel overwhelmed by the urgent needs of those they minister to. God does not want us to lead stressed out lives. Take a look at the life of Jesus and discuss the lessons we can learn from how he spent his time on earth. The rhythm of his life has important lessons for our lives today.

What needs to be done to welcome Latino neighbors into a community and the local church? How do you recognize challenges and seize the opportunity to teach and grow as Christian people? Learn how Lake Avenue Church, a mega-church in Pasadena, handled this and how they have prospered in the process.

“Emerging Church” has become a phrase symbolizing the quest to understand the cultural shifts of the younger generation as they interact (or don’t interact) with church. What happens when the dialogue of emerging church people meets the 3 R’s vision of CCDA? There are as many questions as answers, but this workshop will be a discussion with 3-4 churches and ministries that reach a largely 20-something audience while trying to instill the values of CCDA.

This interactive workshop will frame out the characteristics of exceptional leadership drawing from the Posner Leadership Challenge materials and look at leadership and servant leadership as impacted by our faith base. We will draw on the participants to look at the leadership challenges of our times out of that framework.

Institutional and denominational churches are struggling to grow and impact culture in a growing postmodern environment. Church renewal is desperately needed to live out the claims of Christ and address systemic and personal evils which oppress the poor and marginalized. This workshop will engage the group in meaningful exploration of the theological and practical guidelines needed to create these new wineskins.

CCDA 2006 conference hosts Dr. Dean Trulear at his You, the Ministry & the Kingdom workshop.

Movements and organizations, such as Leadership Foundations of America (LFA), are in the end as good as the leadership that undergirds them. "Leader as servant" had been the historical posture by which local leadership foundation seek to love and serve their cities. This session will look at how God is developing our eyesight and enlarging our view of the poor in cities we serve. It will also explore how servant leadership is shaped and its influence on organizations. Participants will be able to understnd the biblical foundation of servant leadership and see how historical leadership examples can be integrated within their organization.

If you have lived in an underserved community for any length of time, you have probably experienced both great joy and extreme challenges as you have worked to be a good neighbor to those around you. In this workshop/Panel Discussion with Noel and Marianne Castellanos, Joe and Stacy Atkins, and Wayne and Anne Gordon, we will have an honest dialogue about our experience with living in the community.

Our purpose for this study of Isaiah is to introduce workers and pastors to a deeper understanding of the prophet's life, ministry, and vision of God and to equip people for future study and teaching of God's Word in out communities of need.