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People do not know their neighbors for many reasons. If they do not know their neighbors they are not willing to work together to do things.  It is critical to equip people to meet their neighbors and develop relationships with each other. This is done by: walking in their neighborhood and talking with people they meet, and, doing a barbecue in their front yard instead of in the back yard, and, inviting people over for a meal with a map for people to place pins in of where they have lived and talk about it.

If we are to create community, people must learn about each other’s assets, skills, knowledge and passions. The focus is on the strengths and assets already found in the neighborhood, and to a much less extent with, what is not there or the problems in the neighborhood. The appeal lies in the premise that neighborhoods can and will drive the development process themselves by identifying and mobilizing existing, but often-unrecognized strengths, and thereby responding to and creating local economic opportunity. Based on this, people are drawn into small group teachings around things that they are interested in learning and doing.

Collaborative for Neighborhood Transformation helps people in the neighborhood transform their lives and communities from the inside out.  Hope, health and enthusiasm towards neighborhood life happens as a result of people knowing, loving, caring and serving their neighbors, people taking responsibility and working to change their reality, a reduction in disease, crime, drug abuse, and alcohol addiction, people knowing Christ with healthy, growing churches, and improved employment and living conditions.