Think of your house or apartment as the center of a Tic-Tac-Toe diagram, with eight spaces around you being residences surrounding you. Can you name all of the people living in the 8 houses or apartments closest to you? If you answered the first question, can you think of something about their life that is…
Tag: neighborhood
An Improved Way to Start Transforming a Place
It is critical that we start with what the people in the starting group (which can be a church or non-profit) feel comfortable in doing and are willing to do. They are the ones that are going to be entering the neighborhood and beginning to learn about the community. This is before we have done…
More on Prayer Walking
I am trying something new in my blog. I look forward to your reaction. Prayer Walk your neighborhood and pray for things you see. As you see things, pray for what you see both good and bad. Learn about your neighborhood by walking through it and talking to people as you see them. As you…
Ministry of Presence
Ours is a culture that places emphasis on ‘doing’ rather than ‘being’. In fact, if we are not doing something, we are wasting time and resources–and perhaps we are also seen as being lazy. Mission turns our North American ideal of ‘doing’ on its head. When we enter other cultures, it is more important for the…
What is a Cause and What is Ours
An observation, most of my upcoming blogs come from lesson plans from our training therefore they are in bullet from. I hope that works for you What is a Cause It is something that catches our attention and excites us It motivates one to accomplish what the cause spells out It is a dream that…
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…
Biblical Perspective to Transformation
This past week I read with great interest Dela Adadevoh’s new book “Personal Life Transformation” in a Biblical Perspective 2013, International Leadership Foundation, Orlando FL. Dela was my supervisor as Africa Director of Affairs in 1988 when we were on staff with Campus Crusade in Nairobi and developing CHE. Currently Dela is the Global VP…
Examples of Improved Ways to Do things For Others
I will be writing several blogs on examples of activities that build peoples self esteem or move them forward to beginning to do things for themselves through the coaching of others. Christmas Gift Store Many churches use an Angel Tree approach for Christmas gifts for poor children. But instead of doing it that way they…
More on Knowing Your Neighbor
What better time to talk about relationships then during this Christmas Season when our Reedemer was born. First lets Review Whats Needed to Build Good Relationships ** Respect for each other. ** Spend time together. ** Can have open and honest conversations with each other. ** Are able to talk about things that are important…