I want to share with you my passion, what has driven me for the last 30 years. It is the cause of: Lifting communities out of cycles of poverty and disease and facilitating people to faith and maturity in Christ. The Biblical Basis for my cause? Participate in God’s mission to restore all creation to…
Year: 2009
What Neighborhood Transformation is All about
Some people have asked me “Exactly what is Neighborhood all about” so I wrote this to share with people. When a church in a new city asks for an Envisioning Seminar, we ask them to bring people from multiple churches together for this five hour training. From the seminar, we hope to find three to…
Organic Community, Great Book
John Myers wrote a book Organic Community comparing a community that is designed and encouraged by organic growth versus a community that is designed by a master plan. As the title implies an Organic Community is what Myers heavily favors. There are nine elements he uses to describe the difference between organic and master planned…
Identifying Assets
As follow-on to a Blog I wrote a couple weeks ago on Assets we want to follow on with how to identify assets in a neighborhood. Communities can no longer be thought of as complex masses of needs and problems, but rather diverse and potent webs of gifts and assets. Each community has a unique…
Wholistic Ministry
Let’s talk about wholistic and what it means to us in the Global CHE Network and in Neighborhood Transformation. We spell wholistic with a ‘W’ because it keeps ever in front of us the idea that we need to deal with the whole person, all aspects of their life, and the whole community or neighborhood,…
Focusing on What is There, Instead of On What is Not There
I am going to talk about one of the most critical things for working in a city that is identifying and using assets. In the last Blog we compared relief, betterment and empowerment. In this Blog we will talk briefly how do you identify where to begin. In Neighborhood Transformation we focus on the assets…
RELIEF, BETTERMENT OR DEVELOPMENT?
I have been facilitating the Multiplying Light and Truth On-line Book Study for the last two weeks with about 14 participants from varied backgrounds. It is going well. Participants read two chapters of my book and then go on-line to view a video role play and answer several questions with their answers automatically being sent…
Louisville New NT City
The first week of 2009 is almost past. I am in Louisville KY doing a Friday night Saturday morning first segment of our Neighborhood Transformation (NT) training. We have 45 participants from five churches based in the Shawnee Neighborhood where a new clinic for the urban poor is to be started. In addition there were…
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