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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.

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.

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

CCDA 2006 conference hosts Ms. Marian Wright Edelman at her Friday Evening Plenary session.

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.

CCDA's third "R" (Redistribution) refers to the economic empowerment and justice that can result from creative, accountable stewardship. The workshop explores the Biblical foundations of stewardship that brings economic transformation and gives an overview of the value and relevance of the ELE:VATE project for CCDA ministries.

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.

Do you wonder what the impact of living in the hood will be on your children? In this workshop, Angela Gordon and friends will share their own experiences of growing up in urban communities. Both parents and children will benefit from this opportunity to discuss the joys and challenges of doing ministry in the hood.

Despite a desire to share God's love in their communities, many churches stumble along the path from intention to action. To become a change agent, a church must itself undergo transformation, on two levels: leadership development and mission realignment. This workshop identifies the necessary components for this change process.