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This workshop will help the church to enfold ex-offenders into the church, disciple them and help them to become active in the church. It will help you learn how to help them overcome their problems as they become valuable and contributing members of their community.

We will look at how to develop and mobilize young leaders in our churches, ministries, and organizations.

This workshop will explore the critical need for followers of Jesus Christ in our cities and the power that can be unleashed through them. The presentation will use some examples of how local leadership foundations are building bridges and working relationships with a city's faith leaders, congregations, and ministries as they improve the lives of the poor, vulnerable, and marginalized.

Pastoring the “community church” is much different from pastoring at a traditional/suburban model. This workshop will look in-depth at various ways and creative approaches effectively being used to minister in community churches.

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.

With the rise of Latino communities increasing across our nation, more people are becoming interested in ministering in the Latino Community. Come and learn the distinctions of working with a very diverse Latino population and some of the keys to effective ministry in the barrio.

CCDA 2002 Friday Morning Bible Study with John Perkins.

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.

In the Christian community development model in the urban context, relocators often move into a neighborhood and initiate programs. In that neighborhood are numerous lifetime residents with immense leadership capabilities who are often already functioning as leaders in an informal way. Who should lead and when should it happen? Is neighborhood leadership vital? Should relocators "work themselves out of a job?" A discussion of these issues in the light of New Song in Baltimore, a CCD model in existence for 17 years.

Friday morning plenary, 6:30 pm

Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil gives the Friday evening plenary address at CCDA 2005.

CCDA 2005 hosts guest speaker Jim Wallis for its Friday evening plenary.

“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.