Search: Jimmy Dorrell, Christian Community Development Association (CCDA)

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

For seventeen years, Mission Waco has been mobilizing hundreds of middle class students and adults toward more compassionate involvement among the poor through its weekend Poverty Simulations and Out-of-Country Exposure trips. This workshop will describe how carefully designed experiences confront many of the myths about the poor during the guided mining. It will also provide both guidelines from building this experiential training from a Christ perspective and other creative initiatives which stretch Christians who want to be more involved in ministry with the marginalized.