Where the Cross Meets The Street- In the city!

•   Read a good book recently, Where The Cross Meets The Street ...What happens to the neighborhood when God is at the center. Author Noel Castellanos.

   

       Neil spoke at the "2017 State of Milwaukee" event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on January 24, 2017

   

   Noel is CEO of the Christian Community Development Association.

   

  https://youtu.be/Eoybroe_p2c

   

    http://www.ccda.org/about

  
  

   

    Noel spoke at the "2017 State of Milwaukee" event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on January 24, 2017

   

   A few hi lites of Noel's presentation:

   

  When people better themselves...and move out of the "hood"...and then do not come back to help others...this is what happens: 

  
  Problem is that those communities become depleted when the strong leaders & families (churches) move out!
  
   The alternative is to become present in our neighborhoods and be agents of change! Especially  our churches
  
    God gives our communities the gift of people with talent, passion, and resources. But they can't do it alone.
  
   We're not there to help "those people" from a safe distance, but to engage and help my neighborhood.
  
   Churches, audit your compassion ministries: are they empowering, or creating dependency and attitudes of entitlement?
  
  Are we helping inner city churches or harming them? 
  
  Compassion ministries that create dependency/entitlement are toxic & harmful. We can help, but in new ways!  
  
  Look to the story of Nehemiah and Ezra. There can be no spiritual revival without neighborhood restoration.
  
   There's a need for leadership that looks at the neighborhood and says "it can be better!" Not just pastors, but everyone!
  
   When you do development from inside out,you restore neighborhoods for the people that live there not gentrification for the rich.
  
  "Community development is biblical to the core!"  
  
  

  #povertysymposium2017     On TWITTER 

   

  Go to the people Just like Jesus did! Incarnational ministry!

  Live among them

  Learn from them

  Love them

  Start with what they know

  Build on what they have:

  But of the best leaders When their task is done

  The people will remark "We have done it ourselves."

  [Ancient Chinese Proverb]
  
  
  
  
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