2026 CCDA National Conference Go & Sees offer a great opportunity to experience amazing CCD ministries in the Greater Richmond area. Go & Sees provide conference participants an opportunity to learn from practitioners on the ground in the neighborhoods and communities local to the conference.
Options include:
Moments of Hope Outreach
Come and see the MoHope Resource Center, which serves our neighbors who are homeless and those living in poverty. On this Go & See, you will learn about the unhoused community in Richmond, hear real stories of life change, and learn what it means to be present, hospitable, and safe.
This Go & See does not include lunch, so be sure to grab something before meeting for departure. Transportation will be provided.
Support Works Housing
Join us at Cool Lane Commons for a tour of SupportWorks Housing, Virginia's largest provider of permanent supportive housing, with facilities along the I-64 corridor from Charlottesville through Richmond and all the way to South Hampton Roads.
You'll tour the building and our headquarters, including some of the units where our residents live, share lunch in the community room, and join a discussion about the challenges of homelessness and the solutions we see working every day. We will share the story of how we partnered with Faith Community Baptist Church to renew the senior living facility we now call home.
You will learn how our combination of housing and support services helps ensure that 97% of our residents stay housed once they come to us and leave with practical insights into building lasting solutions to homelessness in your own community.
You will ride the city bus with a volunteer from SupportWorks Housing. Lunch will be provided.
Richmond's East End: Hope Lives Here
East End Fellowship, Urban Hope, and the Robinson Theater Community Arts Center are neighborhood-based organizations in the East End of Richmond, Virginia.
This Go & See shows how neighborhood-based organizations can collaborate to promote holistic health and neighborhood flourishing. Come enjoy lunch from a local establishment, multisite tours, an interactive overview of each organization, and practical insights for neighborhood-based ministry.
This Go & See includes lunch and transportation.
Shockoe Bottom and the Richmond Slave Market
Join Rev. Ben Campbell on this Go & See to Shockoe Bottom, the location of the largest market in America's hidden Downriver Slave Trade from the Upper to the Lower South between 1830 and 1865. In that time, about 300,000 persons were sold from a valley just below Thomas Jefferson's iconic Capitol Building into slavery in the cotton and sugar cane fields. Richmonders learned about this hidden history less than 20 years ago -- and are now uncovering the sites that tell the true story.
This Go & See does not include lunch, so be sure to grab something before meeting for departure. We'll take the Pulse bus from the Convention Center to Shockoe, and back again.
Elijah House Academy
Elijah House Academy is a Pre-K through 8th grade Christ-centered and accessible choice in education that serves a diversity of families in metro-Richmond. Our program is inspired by an educator named Charlotte Mason, and we offer a feast of learning to our students while also helping them develop habits that will serve them well in life. Ultimately, we want our students to love the right things: God, neighbor, and learning.
This Go & See does not include lunch, so be sure to grab something before meeting for departure. Transportation will be provided.
Richmond Hill Urban Monastery
Richmond Hill is an urban monastery praying for the spirit of the city. We seek God's transformation of metropolitan Richmond through prayer, hospitality, racial healing, and spiritual development. Every day we pray for the healing of metropolitan Richmond, for the welfare of all our residents, and for the establishment of God’s justice and peace in our Community.
Between 1840 and 1860, the city of Richmond became the second largest slave trading center in America. Rarely do we see structures that housed enslaved people from that time period. We invite you to visit Richmond Hill to learn about urban enslavement and the lived experiences of those who inhabited the Dwelling of Enslaved Africans located on this historic site.
Following the tour, spend time in solitude or quiet fellowship with others in a place of beauty and peace: walk the labyrinth, rest in the garden, meditate in the chapel. We believe that God’s grace can, by the power of the Resurrection, triumph over the discriminations of race and class which have been our worst sin.
This Go & See does not include lunch, so be sure to grab something before meeting for departure. Transportation will be provided.
