Transcript URBAN CARE MINISTRY - Collaborative of Neighborhood

CHURCH INITIATED
NEIGHBORHOOD
TRANSFORMATION
What Is Transformation
Is a permanent change in people’s attitude, belief
and behavior in all areas of their life (physical,
spiritual, emotional, social) who then facilitate the
same changes in others who change their
neighborhood from the inside out.
What’s Needed for Transformation
A Whole Person/Neighborhood
Ministry Is!
 Where one person assists another to become whole.
Those people then assist their neighborhood to become
whole.
 It deals with all the different aspects of life:
 Physical
 Spiritual
 Emotional
 Social
Without the spiritual component there is no wholistic
ministry.
Vision For The City
See a city transformed, neighborhood by
neighborhood, in all areas of life.
Neighborhoods are networked together
so eventually the city is transformed as a
whole.
Observed Needs Of The Urban Poor
 Alcohol and drug dependency
 Spousal and child abuse
 Poverty
 No or sub-standard jobs
 Single moms on welfare
 Poor living conditions
Real Needs Of The Urban Poor
 Feeling of hopelessness
 Feeling of fatalism and I can’t change
anything
 Don’t know what
services are available
 Don’t know how to
access these services
 Not organized to help
change themselves or
neighborhood
But There Are Many Assets Also
 There are many assets found in people living
in the neighborhood as well as local
associations and networks already
functioning in the neighborhood.
 They are waiting to be used.
Ministry Approach
 A multi-faceted, neighborhood-based,
development strategy that deals with the
WHOLE person in urban poor areas which
builds on their assets.
Neighborhood Based
 A Neighborhood is:
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Small in geographic size
Built around an elementary school or
A Census Track in US Census terms
(Census ZIP Code is too large)
Many time 10 to 12 square blocks in size
Most cities have established neighborhoods
set by the city government and historical
precedence.
What Neighborhood
Transformation Is Built On
 Identifying and utilizing the assets already found in
the neighborhood.
 Mobilizing individuals, associations and institutions.
to come together to build on their assets and not
concentrate on their needs.
 Reawakens neighbor helping neighbor instead of
being dependent on professionals.
Finding Assets In Your
Neighborhood
Individual Skills And Abilities
Identify skills and assets of individuals and what
they are willing to share.
Association
Identify what informal groups are involved in the
neighborhood already.
Institutions
Identify formal organizations; government, forprofit and non-profit organizations.
Mobilizing a Neighborhood
After Finding Assets in The Neighborhood
 Connect individuals to others and
groups to use their skills and abilities.
 Build relationships among associations
for common goals of neighborhood
transformation built on assets.
 Form broadly based collaborative committed to
further mobilizing existing assets for good of the
neighborhood.
Ways to Help a Neighborhood
 Relief Ministries - Provides temporary
assistance without addressing long term
needs nor using assets found in the
neighborhood.
 Betterment Ministries - Tend to create short
term positive, caring beneficial environments
and relationships that offer participants
respite or positive experiences.
 Development Ministries - Focus on
measured changes in knowledge, skills
abilities or conditions of the participants
Our Goal In Transformation Is:
Releasing Individuals & Neighborhoods
To Be all They Can Be, By Transforming
Individuals Who Transform Their
Neighborhood From The Inside Out
Proactive Ministry
 Providers of transformation go to the
people in their homes instead of waiting
for the people to come to them.
 This fosters commitment of neighbors
to their neighbors and causes
transformation to be
locally owned.
Meeting Felt Needs
And Using Neighborhood Assets
 Local people in the neighborhoods identify
needs and assets through simple exercises.
 Local people prioritize them.
 Local people use existing assets and
resources already in the neighborhood.
 Trainers equip and empower the local
people how to solve these needs using what
they already have.
Ministry Is Committed To
 Partnering with groups already in the
neighborhood.
 Find churches that are externally focused that
want to empower others and reach their
target neighborhood in a wholistic way.
 Tapping into existing
networks already working
within the neighborhood.
Ministry Is Committed To
 Promoting self-help within the neighborhood,
not providing services to the neighborhood.
 Finding local leadership, training them how to
solve their needs with people in their area and
releasing them to do it.
 Discovering and using
local resources found in
their neighborhood.
NEIGHBORHOOD
TRANSFORMATION GROUPS
Trainers/Facilitators
Committee
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Training/Facilitation Team
 A Launch Facilitation Team initiates the
program and creates awareness in the
neighborhood.
 Begins the process by identifying individual
skills and associations within the
neighborhood.
 Made up of a group of people with
different skills and background
equipped how to help the
neighborhood.
 Trains the Committee and
Neighborhood Mobilizers.
Committee
 Local people chosen by their neighbors to lead and
manage the work.
 A group representing different segments of the area.
 Trained by the Training Team to be a good
functioning committee.
Neighborhood Agents of Change
 Volunteers who have a heart to see their area
changed physically, spiritually, emotionally and
socially.
 Trained by the facilitation team on the identified
priority needs of that area.
 Who Put into practice what they have learned.
 Share what they have learned regularly with their
neighbors.
Process Within Church
 Introduce church to wholistic ministry.
 Identify Launch Team and begin to train.
 Envision and equip church through pulpit and
small groups to do wholistic ministry.
 Do secondary research on target
neighborhood.
 Identify skills that church members willing to
share in the neighborhood.
 Begin Acts of Love in the neighborhood.
Church Study
 Small Groups study for all church groups,
changing from a doing and segmented
approach to empowering and wholistic
approach.
Three Study Options:
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DNA On Earth as it is in Heaven DVD series
DNA Three books Kingdom Life Style
Harvest On-line down-loadable materials
Willow Creek 4 lesson Living Beyond Yourself
Training of the Facilitation Team
Seven Saturdays spread over 24 months
1. Wholism and Transformation
2. Identifying assets and networking
3. How it works, Players and process
4. How it works, Steps and teaching
5. Building community ownership
6. Planning and Evaluation
7. Multipliable Leadership
Process Within The Neighborhood
 Develop relationships in the neighborhood with
individuals, existing groups and networks.
 Identify assets and interest of people in the
neighborhood.
 In small groups begin equipping neighborhood
members to deal with identified issues.
 Meld small groups into one large group around
central issue.
 Committee formed and trained.
 Neighborhood Empowers chosen, trained and
begin work.
Expectations For Ministry
 Transformed neighborhoods from the inside.
 People know neighbors and helping each other.
 People knowing and growing in Christ.
 People taking responsibility for their own lives.
 Healthy growing churches.
 Improvement in employment and living conditions.
 Reduction in disease, crime, drug and alcohol
addiction.
 Neighborhoods throughout city using the urban
ministry networked together to learn from and
encourage each other.
What We Bring
 A proven wholistic transformation approach which helps
organize people to do things in groups to transforms
their neighborhood as they are changed as individuals.
 Participatory teaching approach that equips neighbors to
help neighbors.
 1000 lessons on many diverse urban topics that they
chose which will equip them to use their assets to deal
with those things they want to see changed.
 An approach that systematically transforms multiple
sectors in all areas of neighborhood life.
Some Urban Lesson Series
 How to get an keep a job
 Micro-enterprise, Small business
 Coaching/Mentoring for jobs and tutoring
 Personal finances
 Healthy Pregnancy
 12 disease series
 200 Spiritual lessons
 Children as agents of change
What Does It Take To Succeed?
A Passionate Champion
Ministry not Marketing
Grace-filled Calling
Community
Ownership
Pastoral
Commitment
Open-handed attitude
PO Box 576645
Modesto CA 95357
www.lifewind.org