Socorro Texas, Developing Christian Community

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People in Socorro Texas share how they have started to build a Christian Community.
Posted: May 5, 2008 DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME
Community Organizing
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In, For, and WITH the Community

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To develop a community you have to be willing to live in it.  To be WITH a community means to be a servant to the community.
Posted: Feb. 5, 2008 DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME
General (3:56)

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Healthy Neighborhood Project

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The Healthy Neighborhood Project is organized around the philosophy of helping people in the community fund and implement ideas around THEIR gifts and interests.
Posted: Dec. 3rd, 2007 DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME
Community Organizing
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Inviting Neighborhood Participation

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This video illustrates a 5 question door-to-door survey that you can ask neighbors to invite participation in community development. Going door-to-door and talking with neighbors about their neighborhoods helps people connect with one another, and also helps to define a neighborhood community vision from the residents themselves.
Posted: Nov. 9th, 2007 DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME
Tools: Developing a Community Vision (3:10)

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Sacred Suds: Moving From Betterment to Development

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Sacred Suds started out simply as a betterment agency where people could wash their clothes and take showers. But as they started talking to more of their neighbors they realized the neighborhood had greater needs than just cleanliness. The first step Sacred took towards development was an ESL class.
Posted: Oct. 11th, 2007 DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME
Betterment to Development
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How Do You Teach Kids to Take Care of Their Neighborhoods?


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How do you teach kids to take care of their neighborhoods?  Have them keep it clean.
Posted: Sept. 25th, 2007 DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME
Tools: Community
Betterment (1:21)

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How Do You Teach Kids to Save?


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How do you teach kids to save?  Give them incentives.
Posted: Sept. 25th, 2007 DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME
Tools: Betterment to
Development (1:18)

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How Do You Teach Kids Responsibility?


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How do you teach kids responsibility?  Give them some.
Posted: Sept. 25th, 2007 DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME
Tools: Betterment to
Development (1:19)

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Youth Employment Service (Y.E.S.)

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The Y.E.S. program offers local youth a first work experience.  Kids  learn work ethic, good saving habits through incentives, and taking pride in their communities through caring.
Posted: Aug. 28th, 2007 DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME
Community Betterment
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Fathers


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Active fathers make better families.  This is a program that helps to connect fathers with their kids.  This video is about trying to reclaim the father being an important figure in the home, as well as encouraging them to be active in their children’s lives.
Posted: May 9th, 2007 DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME
General (3:16)

ALL Things?


ALL Things from CFA Videos on Vimeo.


For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.  For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to RECONCILE to himself ALL THINGS… (Col. 1:16, 19-20)
Posted: April 4th, 2007 DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME
Justice (1:40)

Creating Hope for Chattanooga

Paul Green discusses how the Hope for Chattanooga program in Glenwood, Tennessee works within their community.  Programs and examples of their work are shown as well as their vision for the community.
Posted: April 4, 2007 DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME
General (7:36)

Salvation

Positive Impact, in Miami Florida, held a course on the theology of development for future community leaders.  One topic it touched on was salvation and how it liberates the whole person.  Participants learned that salvation is not only a future reality, but also a present condition.
Posted: April 4, 2007 DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME
General (2:15)

Good Neighborhoods


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Communities of exclusion hurt us all.
Posted: April 4, 2007 DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME
Justice (1:10)

Developing God’s Eyes and Heart for the Community


Developing God’s Eyes and Heart for the Community from CFA Videos on Vimeo.


How should churches approach people in their communities?  To see real development and change we need to look at communities and neighbors not through our eyes, but rather through God’s eyes.
Posted: April 4th, 2007
Building Readiness (6:27)

What If?


What If? from CFA Videos on Vimeo.


What if we actually practiced what we preached and loved our neighbors as ourselves?  What could we accomplish if we only try?  What if we put our communities first?
Posted: April 4th, 2007 DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME
General (2:02)

Calvin Church: Developing a Community Vision


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Members of Calvin Church in Oak Lawn, Illinois plan and discuss their vision for the community.  Members of the church organize prayer walks.
Posted: April 4, 2007 DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME
Developing a Community
Vision (5:44)

The Whatcom Dream

Trudy Shuravloff talks about getting help from the Whatcom Dream and how it has changed her life.
Posted: April 4, 2007 DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME
General (1:42)

A Partnership Case Study


Anaheim Church and the Orange County Christian Charities (OCCC) partnered together to more effectively help people in need throughout their communities.
Posted: April 4, 2007 DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME
General (5:58)

Effective Aid

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When is aid most effective?  When a person has a goal and works to achieve that goal.
Posted: April 4, 2007 DOWNLOAD QUICKTIME
General (1:16)
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