What is Neighborhood Transformation?

Neighborhood Transformation is a strategy which helps churches minister in a wholistic manner to people in urban poor neighborhoods. It empowers people to take responsibility for their own lives. It helps neighbors to help their neighbors and moves them from welfare and relief to empowerment. It focuses on assets found in the neighborhood which fosters local ownership instead of being based on problems which they expect outsiders to fix for them.

Neighborhood Transformation (NT) trains church lay-people how to enter a nearby poor neighborhood, develop relationships, identify assets already found in the neighborhood in individuals and groups. Then, by working with the local people, this information is used to improve the living conditions.

• Neighborhood Transformation Overview (a 1.65mb Microsoft Word format file)
• Church Initiated Neighborhood Transformation (a 665kb Microsoft PowerPoint format file)
• Clinic and Neighborhood Transformation (a 565kb PowerPoint presentation)
• From Rural CHE to Urban NT (a 63kb Microsoft Word format file)

Learn how key elements of NT have been working in the USA for over 20 years.

To learn more click here to download/open an 89kb Microsoft Word document.