community transformation
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Posted on February 20, 2012, 10:01 am | 8 comments
Topics: Serving
In Asset Based Community Development, we talk a lot about church as asset for positive community change. In what ways can church be gift to neighborhood transformation? I wonder what you would add to this list?
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Posted on December 26, 2011, 10:43 am | 2 comments
Topics: Global Partnerships
Community Development or Mission work is not something we do for people – it is something we do with people. So often we think in terms of projects, participants and measureable results. But really the challenge is to look for transformation in the lives of people...
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Posted on November 1, 2011, 1:19 pm | 2 comments
Topics: Classis Health and Renewal
The CRMT is committed to help foster fellowship, prayer, and spiritual growth at the classical level. To what end? So that classes can do a better job of creating and sustaining the health of their member congregations. To what end?
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Posted on October 25, 2011, 8:31 am | 1 comment
Topics: Community
What should the church be doing, then, if government effort seems to have little effect, except maybe for providing ongoing relief? How should the church shape its own response? Can the church actually REDUCE poverty and dependence on programs that help? Even just in our neighborhood? Seems like that’s the ideal...
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Posted on September 6, 2011, 12:22 am
Topics: Congregation, Denomination
To date Diakonia Remixed has received 300 responses to the survey that was created to help them evaluate the state of diaconal ministry in North America. Have you filled it out yet? If you haven't, you have less than a month to add your voice to this important discussion. So what are you waiting for? We need you! (And I'm not only talking to deacons here!)
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Posted on September 5, 2011, 12:00 am | 4 comments
Topics: Youth
We go through detailed and strategic interviewing, testing and discernment to ensure that those who are interested in planting churches have the gifts to do so. I’ve learned through experience that in our narrow focus on finding the right individuals to plant churches, we never look beyond that to youth pastors for the plants. I’m thinking that’s not such a good idea.
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Posted on July 18, 2011, 8:18 am | 3 comments
Topics: Missional Church
Programs can be efficient ways to accomplish specific results. They usually involve commissioning or delegating people with special gifts to do certain tasks on behalf of the rest of us. Movements, on the other hand, happen when ordinary people like you and I become contagious about a shared vision and begin
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Posted on July 1, 2011, 11:23 am | 3 comments
Topics: Missional Church
As many as one out of every four Nicaraguans currently claim a “born again” experience. There’s little doubt that many individuals and families have changed because the Gospel has taken root in their lives. But a growing number of Nicaraguan evangelicals are beginning to ask...
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Posted on May 17, 2011, 1:14 am | 5 comments
Topics: Spiritual Formation
In a given week there are probably more Christians listening to the words of Oprah than the words of God. More people probably pay attention to TV makeovers than pay attention to God’s invitation to transformation. Elders – in working for God – have a tough job.
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Posted on March 14, 2011, 4:49 pm
Topics: Deacons
What if deacons across the denomination began to brainstorm and dialog together about how to strengthen the office of deacon? What if we blew down the mail box of the deacon task force with great ideas, incisive questions, and vivid stories?
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Posted on February 21, 2011, 8:58 am
Topics: Community, Getting Started
We deacons are in a leadership role and as such our job is to empower, prepare, nurture and disciple our congregation to go out into the world and do the real work of the church. How do we do this?
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Posted on February 16, 2011, 10:31 am
Topics: Global Partnerships
This 10-minute DVD tells the story of two clinics built in Kenya with the help of Canadians. One failed, one succeeded. Explore the different approaches with these follow up questions...
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Posted on February 1, 2011, 3:41 pm
Topics: Community
The Kingdom has already begun to break in - Jesus said so. The church is called and empowered to be sign and foretaste of the coming attraction. How? By becoming a kingdom community asset. Sherman discusses what this means through three dimensions of the church's life - visiting the poor and needy, making strategically foolish investments, and exercising "being there" authority. WE are life-imparters, resource allocators, and servant minded authorities who've earned the right to exercise authority by being incarnationally present. Sherman rocks the Kingdom vision.
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Posted on January 24, 2011, 5:56 pm
Topics: Community
Looking for a short but richly packed starting place for a conversation about how your church might get engaged with community transformation? You couldn't find a better place to look than in this 2 page list of questions and bullet points by Jay Van Groningen.
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Posted on January 24, 2011, 4:34 pm | 2 comments
Topics: Deacons
The church is the sign of the Kingdom, and part of its task is to set out more signs, showing what that Kingdom is like and pointing the way. Read about some signs of transformation.
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