Greetings to all. Something different in this Blog. This week has three very important things happenings in Neighborhood Transformation’s life. A tremendous amount of time and energy has gone into making this a reality. First we have gone live on a totally new web site which has been five months in the making. You can view…
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What is Transformation
TRANSFORMATION DEFINITIONS A definition given by Bryant Myers of World Vision International in his book Walking With the Poor: “I use the term transformational development to reflect my concern for seeking positive change in the whole of human life materially, socially and spiritually . Changed people and just and peaceful relationships are the twin goals…
What is Wholistic Ministry
I just attended a 3 day conference here in Phoenix, International Wholistic Mission Conference where 700 people came to talk about what was happening in wholistic ministry. Fantastic conference, you should plan to attend next year in 2015. It will be April 29th through May 1. Let’s talk about wholistic and what it means to…
Transformation Requires More Then Doing Things for People and Neighborhoods
For transformation to take place people and neighborhoods must decide they want something different then what they currently have. Then they must care enough that they are willing to do something about it to see the change take place. If that desire and action are not there then no matter what we do for others…
Biblical Basis for Wholistic Transformational Ministry
Christians are commanded in Luke 10:27 to love God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength and to love their neighbors as themselves. If we love our neighbors as ourselves, we will truly be concerned with their welfare, both physically and spiritually. We will want to help our neighbors live more abundant, meaningful lives…
What Wholistic Means
Let’s talk about wholistic and what it means to us. 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, meaning all sectors in that place. Some people and…
Success Factors for Christian Community Development
A Christian doing community development should base their work on a Biblical world view. We propose the following development principles should be considered when Christians undertake development projects. • The main emphasis should be upon changed individual lives, rather than changed social structures. Changed lives produce a changed society. The basis of this change is…
Meeting Learner Needs
As a follow on to my last blog about Participatory Training That Multiplies lets continue on and explore further how we practically do our training in CHE. The key is to meet learner needs therefore the following should be considered in meeting the adult learner’s needs, in order to affect true transfer of knowledge and…
Biblical Basis for Neighborhood Transformation
Neighborhood Transformation’s Cause Is: Equipping churches to assist neighborhoods out poverty and people to maturity in Christ. The Biblical Basis for our Cause Participate in God’s mission to restore all creation to wholeness by being faithful witnesses in Word and Deed through Gods redeeming love and work. • Luke 10:27 Love God totally in areas…
What is My Passion?
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…