Collaborative for Neighborhood Transformation

1. Collaborative for Neighborhood Transformation A Sister Network to Global CHE Network

2. What If!

3. Key Points in Building in Partnership • Mission with, not mission to • Find out what God is doing and joining Him • Think incarnationally • Long term commitment over many years to each other • Think equally and together • Field driven, not headquarters, outside organization nor donor driven • Strengthen, accelerate, and multiply what is already happening

4. Key Points in Building in Partnership • Relationships more important then results • Recognize the strengths, weaknesses and differences of all partners and build on them. • Inter-dependence is central not independence nor dependence. • We don’t know better or more then our partners we all have something to give and to receive from each other. • Cultivate blessings for our partners not ourselves.

5. Key Points in Building in Partnership • Realize that all partners bring some baggage with them into the partnership. • Build up a bank of trust between partners so when things go poorly there is something to fall back upon. • Take money out of the equation. Ask yourself would I partner with that partner if money was not involved?

6. Collaborative for Neighborhood Transformation Is: • CHE used in urban neighborhoods, designed for North American cities • About creating new sub-communities since people in cities are from elsewhere, isolated and dependent on professionals to help them. • Reinstituting neighbor helping neighbor. • Based on identifying and utilizing Assets not built on needs or problems.

7. Collaborative for Neighborhood Transformation Is: • Mobilizing churches to work in nearby urban poor neighborhoods to their church. • Using volunteer laypeople as trainers. • Training is done in segments to fit laypersons time constraints. • Networking different churches in a city doing NT into a collaborative to learn from and help each other,

8. CNT is About Creating and Spread of a Network

9. Node Node Node Node Node Node Node Node Keystone CNT Keystone CNT Node or City Church

10. Key to Spread of NT • An Intermediary (City/State AC) • Creates interest in churches to do NT • Lead trainer/facilitator in Segmented Trainers Training • Coach sites as they implement • Facilitate forming of city wide network about one to one-half years in the process.

11. Starting a City • Find person to raise interest for NT Envisioning Seminar with churches • Do 5 hour NT Envisioning Seminar • Churches decide to start and identify champion to spearhead in their church • Champions go through multicity urban NT TOT (Next one 9-14 Jan, 09) • Start first of seven segmented training for volunteer layperson trainers.

12. Cities Started or Starting Segmented Training • Phoenix, AZ (3 streams) • Sydney Mines NS (Canada) • Tucson, AZ (2 streams) • Sierra Vista AZ, • Tulsa, OK • London ONT (Canada) • Louisville/Lexington/Corbin, KY (Jan 9) • Minneapolis/St Paul, MN (Jan 29)

13. Envisioning Seminar Planned or Done • Flagstaff, AZ (Flag, Hopi & Navajo) • Knoxville, TN (Feburary) • Orlando, FL (January) • Colorado Springs, CO (Jan 27) • Omaha, NB (Feb) • Sacramento, CA (?)

14. Other Possible NT Cities • Los Angles, CA • Oklahoma City, OK • Portland, OR • Atlanta, GA • Denver Front, CO • New York City, NY • Modesto CA • Houston, TX

15. CNT Web Site

16. CNT Newsletter

17. Two New MLT Book Studies Module One: Introduction to wholistic, transformational ministry. We want people in the pews to begin to understand the new concepts of transformation, wholistic, multiplication, empowering. There is a Facilitator Guide and a DVD with starters The series covers the following MLT chapters: • Week One, Chapter 2 (spiritual and physical integration) and Chapter 3 (poverty, hunger and injustice) • Week Two, Chapter 4 (secular development) and Chapter 5 (Christian community development) • Week Three, Chapter 1 (CHE Background) and Chapter 7 (CHE program description) • Week Four, Chapter 13 (CHE helps in church planting) and Chapter 14 (CHE is a template for ministry)

18. Two New MLT Book Studies Module Two: How wholistic, transformational ministry works. Here we want to prepare those interested to understand how to do CHE but we do not expect to make them trainers. The series cover the following MLT chapters: • Week One, Chapter 7 (CHE description, review) and Chapter 6 (Groups of people doing CHE) • Week Two, Paper on ABCD and Chapter 11 (How to start CHE) • Week Three, Paper on PLA and School Screening and Chapter 12 (Planning reporting and evaluation) • Week Four, Chapter 8 (training) and Chapter 13 (CHE and lesson plans) and (Summary paper on how they will use what they have learned).

19. On-Line MLT Book Study • Did this in August through Equip E-Learning System • Module One starting Wednesday, Jan 7 for four weeks. • Participants do not have to be on-line at the same time but they must complete their assignment within a given 7 day period (Wednesday to Wednesday) at their convenience. • Participants are given one week to read two chapters of MLT then go on line and answer a couple of questions and see a video starter from Saddleback videos. • When they answer the questions their answers are put on a forum and sent to all participants who had already answered. This way the participants inter-act with each other. • Cost $30

20. How Use Book Studies • Module One • Introduce people sitting in the pew to key concepts of Transformational ministry but may never do anything with it but opens their mind • Short Term teams before they go overseas. • Module Two • People who want to know how CHE works • Short term people who go on multiple trips • Train Trainers • Go through regular TOT

21. Comments and Questions • NT been introduced to South America • Ready to be introduced to your areas • How can you use NT in your setting?