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OUR PURPOSE is to create the environment and relationships necessary to equip, empower, and engage Christian mission and ministry in the city cores that is characteristically incarnational and transformational. WE WILL pray for kingdom power, pursue kingdom values, partner for kingdom goals.
8/12/2003
Check this out
www.citycoreinitiative.com
http://www.augsburgfortress.org/ website for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. ELCA has a ten-year outreach project called, “In the City for Good.” There is an Urban Resource Kit and a video narrated by Rick Steves, NPR travel series host. In the City for Good is the kind of church-based long-view of missions and ministry that is transformational.
35Jesus traveled through all the cities and villages of that area, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And wherever he went, he healed people of every sort of disease and illness. 36He felt great pity for the crowds that came, because their problems were so great and they didn’t know where to go for help. They were like sheep without a shepherd. 37He said to his disciples, “The harvest is so great, but the workers are so few. 38So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send out more workers for his fields.” Matt. 9 (NLT)
http://www.augsburgfortress.org/ website for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. ELCA has a ten-year outreach project called, “In the City for Good.” There is an Urban Resource Kit and a video narrated by Rick Steves, NPR travel series host. In the City for Good is the kind of church-based long-view of missions and ministry that is transformational.
35Jesus traveled through all the cities and villages of that area, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And wherever he went, he healed people of every sort of disease and illness. 36He felt great pity for the crowds that came, because their problems were so great and they didn’t know where to go for help. They were like sheep without a shepherd. 37He said to his disciples, “The harvest is so great, but the workers are so few. 38So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask him to send out more workers for his fields.” Matt. 9 (NLT)
8/09/2003
Research Process
CCI RESEARCH PROCESS (8-8-03)
City Core Initiative is in its research phase of formation, with the ultimate goal of impacting city cores for total community transformation. We are currently building a knowledge base to:
Understand the major issues of the city core
Discover what programs, resources and “best practices” already exist
Strengthen and build upon the existing resources and networks
Locate areas of need that are neglected
The research of these areas will be compiled into resources for churches and organizations to utilize in forming strategies for their city.
Study of City Cores
Abilene
Dallas
San Antonio
#1 demographic profile
population density
population distribution
population groupings
age
education
economic
lifestyle
tribe/generation
ethnicity
religious identification
#2 churches & ministries present
#3 networks present
#4 identify the systems issues
#5 what needs are being met
#6 what needs are not being met
#7 what are the spiritual warfare issues
Collaborate
#1 Seek input and advice
CCI Team made up of Baptist Building staff, association staff, and church ministers
Involvement and input by participating Baptist associations
City core church pastors
Various affinity and listening groups
Academics and educators
Other denominations
City officials
Community Organization leaders
Enlist Baptist associations in focus cities to partner with us to do the CCI project in their respective cities
The associations are being asked to help in the following ways:
Help collect and analyze research data (this may include community needs assessments and other surveys)
Facilitate contact with other networks, churches across denominational lines, and community leaders
Facilitate listening sessions among selected groups
Developing new City Core Initiative community transformation model(s)
This would be an informal partnership for the duration of the 2 year project;
Does not involve formal covenants and/or funding agreements since the nature of the City Core Initiative is research, not strategy
Church Missions and Evangelism Section is funding City Core Initiative
Customize & Communicate
#1 categorize and define research information
#2 develop guidelines for achieving community transformation
#3 develop new community transformation models
#4 index effective models and best practices
#5 publish results
#6 recommend congregational and denominational strategies
Hoped-for Outcomes
Better understanding of the galaxy of issues relative to the city core from a Christian ministry perspective
Greater awareness of what is already being done across denominations
One or more models of ministry that focus on community transformation
Identified processes for churches and Christian organizations that will help them be more effective and strategic in reaching and transforming their city cores for the gospel
Published results
Join with us in prayer for a movement of God in Texas City Cores
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done
Contact the City Core Initiative Office
Tommy Goode
Baptist General Convention of Texas
333 N. Washington
Dallas, TX 75246
(214) 828-5242
tommy.goode@bgct.org
www.citycoreinitiative.com
City Core Initiative is in its research phase of formation, with the ultimate goal of impacting city cores for total community transformation. We are currently building a knowledge base to:
Understand the major issues of the city core
Discover what programs, resources and “best practices” already exist
Strengthen and build upon the existing resources and networks
Locate areas of need that are neglected
The research of these areas will be compiled into resources for churches and organizations to utilize in forming strategies for their city.
Study of City Cores
Abilene
Dallas
San Antonio
#1 demographic profile
population density
population distribution
population groupings
age
education
economic
lifestyle
tribe/generation
ethnicity
religious identification
#2 churches & ministries present
#3 networks present
#4 identify the systems issues
#5 what needs are being met
#6 what needs are not being met
#7 what are the spiritual warfare issues
Collaborate
#1 Seek input and advice
CCI Team made up of Baptist Building staff, association staff, and church ministers
Involvement and input by participating Baptist associations
City core church pastors
Various affinity and listening groups
Academics and educators
Other denominations
City officials
Community Organization leaders
Enlist Baptist associations in focus cities to partner with us to do the CCI project in their respective cities
The associations are being asked to help in the following ways:
Help collect and analyze research data (this may include community needs assessments and other surveys)
Facilitate contact with other networks, churches across denominational lines, and community leaders
Facilitate listening sessions among selected groups
Developing new City Core Initiative community transformation model(s)
This would be an informal partnership for the duration of the 2 year project;
Does not involve formal covenants and/or funding agreements since the nature of the City Core Initiative is research, not strategy
Church Missions and Evangelism Section is funding City Core Initiative
Customize & Communicate
#1 categorize and define research information
#2 develop guidelines for achieving community transformation
#3 develop new community transformation models
#4 index effective models and best practices
#5 publish results
#6 recommend congregational and denominational strategies
Hoped-for Outcomes
Better understanding of the galaxy of issues relative to the city core from a Christian ministry perspective
Greater awareness of what is already being done across denominations
One or more models of ministry that focus on community transformation
Identified processes for churches and Christian organizations that will help them be more effective and strategic in reaching and transforming their city cores for the gospel
Published results
Join with us in prayer for a movement of God in Texas City Cores
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done
Contact the City Core Initiative Office
Tommy Goode
Baptist General Convention of Texas
333 N. Washington
Dallas, TX 75246
(214) 828-5242
tommy.goode@bgct.org
www.citycoreinitiative.com
8/08/2003
Books, etc.
2 Corinthians 5 (NLT)
17What this means is that those who become Christians become new persons. They are not the same anymore, for the old life is gone. A new life has begun! 18All this newness of life is from God, who brought us back to himself through what Christ did. And God has given us the task of reconciling people to him.
Here are some books that are especially relevant to City Core Initiative
City of God, City of Satan by Robert Linthicum
Tranforming Power by Robert Linthicum (to be released in September)
Sidewalks in the Kingdom by Eric Jacobsen
The Emerging Church by Dan Kimball
A Theology as Big as the City by Ray Bakke
Envisioning the New City by Eleanor Scott Meyers editor
Websites
Ray Bakke CityVoices.com
Robert Linthicum p-u-t.org
Video
"In the City for Good" by Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 800-638-3522 ext 2647
"In the City for Good" resource notebook
17What this means is that those who become Christians become new persons. They are not the same anymore, for the old life is gone. A new life has begun! 18All this newness of life is from God, who brought us back to himself through what Christ did. And God has given us the task of reconciling people to him.
Here are some books that are especially relevant to City Core Initiative
City of God, City of Satan by Robert Linthicum
Tranforming Power by Robert Linthicum (to be released in September)
Sidewalks in the Kingdom by Eric Jacobsen
The Emerging Church by Dan Kimball
A Theology as Big as the City by Ray Bakke
Envisioning the New City by Eleanor Scott Meyers editor
Websites
Ray Bakke CityVoices.com
Robert Linthicum p-u-t.org
Video
"In the City for Good" by Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 800-638-3522 ext 2647
"In the City for Good" resource notebook
8/05/2003
Emerging Church Network
Exciting things area afoot! I am happy to serve any way that is helpful, particularly as it relates the growing presence of emerging culture in our city cores. So many churches are in decline in the city cores ofourmajor cities and new wineskins and alliances must be developed. I love the community transformation dynamic to all of this as well.
Blessings,
John Berryhill
Blessings,
John Berryhill
