Building Readiness: Through God's Eyes, With God's Heart
 | ABCD At FCRCFrom
the top of the year Seattle First Christian Reformed Church has
partnered with Jeff Littlejohn and Imagine NW! to learn and practice
the principles of Asset Based Community Development. This partnership
comes out of a desire of... |
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 | ABCD TrainingThere
is a trend today among American Evangelical and Bible believing church
leaders to talk about Community Transformation (CT). The content behind
the label however has been anything but uniform. To some CT is about:
Getting pastors in a city to pray... |
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 | A Community Stone SoupHow often does the Division Chief of a County-Wide Fire Department, in charge of the Employee & Community Affairs Division, ask a Christian Community Developer to help the fire department reach the communities in meaningful and influential ways? |
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 | A Road Report from BelltownI've come to realize how much I didn't know my city or my neighbors. Also, I discovered how other people who live in Belltown are as isolated as I am - we just don't know each other! And of course they do not know much if anything about my church. |
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 | Build It and They Will Come. Or Will They?Years ago I would come out to visit Sam and Karen with a certain girl I was dating. During my visits, I would often think in my skeptical way, “Who builds a church... |
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 | Connecting Neighbors and Identifying LeadersExciting things are happening in the city of Bellflower, California. Neighbors have started meeting and connecting with one another; they also are beginning to work together... |
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 | Go Where He's Working...They Did!“If you want to know Jesus,” says Pastor Eric Likkel of Emmaus Road Church, “you have to go where He’s working.” “People need to have a sense of place... |
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 | Horizon CRCHorizon Christian Reformed Church is a community primed for transformation. Through prayer, preaching and study the congregation decided to leave their comfortable church building and relocate... |
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 | Look Before You Leap, Listen Before You SpeakThe Gospel should give us the ability to look at our community with
both unflinching realism and almost ridiculous optimism. Sin has a
deep, terrible and unavoidable blast radius, but Grace... |
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 | Pictures of TransformationTelling stories of community transformation in one community is a daunting task. So writing a story of transformation for a large region like the South West could be considered a bit of a pipe dream. But through out the region I see pictures of transformation... |
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 | Weaving the Threads of CommunityAgain and again we've had to slow ourselves down from jumping into programs for our community and focus on relationships. We were reminded of this by a couple who did this kind of ministry for 15 yrs... |
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