Upcoming events

  • CCDA Member Office Hours

    • Thursday, August 26, 2021
    • Thursday, September 25, 2025
    • 49 sessions
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    CCDA Member Office Hours are a monthly chance to connect with CCDA staff and other members. It's your time. Share what you are working on. Ask questions. Have conversations. Build community. It's an open forum to spend some time together with a few other members and connect. 

    What are the tools and resources you’ve found most useful?

    What challenges is your community facing?

    What’s one thing happening in your community that you are excited about?

    Let's talk about it! 

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  • Host a CCDA Intensive

    • Monday, January 01, 2024
    • Tuesday, December 31, 2024
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    Share CCD knowledge and experience with your community by hosting a CCDA Intensive! Intensives are a one day interactive training that are designed to equip emerging grassroots community developers, youth workers, pastors, lay leaders, and students in the philosophy of Christian Community Development. Visit ccda.org/intensive to learn more and indicate your interest with an RSVP. 

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  • Women of Color Check-ins

    • Thursday, February 29, 2024
    • Thursday, September 26, 2024
    • 8 sessions
    • Online
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    This is a space for WOC in CCDA to come together and share their stories, be encouraged, receive prayer and also have a moment to inhale and exhale. We hope to reflect on who God has called us to be and share our hopes and dreams for the future. We desire to champion each other for years to come.

    Meeting link will be sent each month via a calendar invite.

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  • Entrepreneurial Support Session for ESO, business incubator/accelerator, and business ecosystem leaders

    • Thursday, September 19, 2024
    • 3:00 PM
    • Zoom
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    We are excited to meet again with the Entrepreneurship Support Alliance!

    This network seeks to foster the establishment of new Entrepreneurial Support Organizations (ESO) and equip current ESOs by assisting ESO leaders in developing programming that addresses barriers to business formation and equips entrepreneurs for future success.

    Join us to connect with like-minded people.

    Zoom link sent upon registration.


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  • 2024 CCDA National Conference

    • Wednesday, October 02, 2024
    • Saturday, October 05, 2024
    • Oregon Convention Center
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    Conference Location

    The conference will be held at the Oregon Convention Center, located at 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Portland, OR 97232

    Click HERE to learn more about the 2024 National Conference. 

    Registration changes, deletions, additions, etc.

    Have questions you can't find answers to? Check  out the CCDA Help Center.

    Book a room at the Hyatt Regency across the street from the Convention Center or a short walk away at the Doubletree. 

    Plan to arrive early for Go & Sees and Pre Conference events on Wed.

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  • Safe Sanctuaries Training

    • Wednesday, October 02, 2024
    • 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
    • Oregon Convention Center, Meeting Room B 117, 1st Floor
    • 21
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    When people in our communities find the courage and the space to speak up about harassment, trauma, and abuse, our churches can be just the safe sanctuary needed to have helpful, honest conversation that works to raise awareness, incite healing, and lament brokenness. Toward that end, the following resource is offered as a starting point for congregations and their leaders.

    Safe Sanctuaries Training equips leaders to pastor people who have experienced the injustice of intimate partner violence and sexual violence. This preconference event will include group work, activities, and a capstone project that develops a plan for immediate implementation in the participant's church or community. 

    Please note: There is an online pre-learning requirement before attending the preconference event. The online training is a self-guided introduction to this topic that will allow all participants to begin at the same level of learning. It takes approximately two hours or less to complete the pre-learning. Participants will receive a certificate of completion at the end of the online training to document this learning opportunity. Please create an account on the Covenant's learning platform and complete the "Advocacy for Victims of Abuse Online Training" module under Love Mercy Do Justice.

    Learn more at covchurch.org/abuse.

    Breakfast and lunch are included. Registration ends September 27! This preconference is sponsored by Love Mercy Do Justice, The Covenant Church. 

    We equip the local church to serve in the areas of criminal justice, domestic disaster response, immigration, intercultural development, community development ministry, economic justice, abuse advocacy, and racial righteousness.
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  • Relational Poverty Alleviation Training

    • Wednesday, October 02, 2024
    • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
    • Oregon Convention Center, Portland Ballroom 251, 2nd Floor
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    Everett Gospel Mission (egm) developed the Relational Poverty Alleviation Training based on their innovative Poverty 101 offered to thousands in their community. This training will be an engaging, interactive, and insightful workshop equipping neighbors to practice coming alongside one another and experience mutual transformation. 

    By participating in this training:

    • Experienced CCD practitioners will be encouraged and inspired to envision how they can contextualize this core strategy egm uses to engage with our community to alleviate poverty.
    • New practitioners to CCD will accelerate their understanding of relevant concepts, CCD values, and leave better equipped to partner with their neighbors experiencing poverty.
    • Having worked in relational poverty alleviation and homeless services for decades your facilitators will draw from their own transformation, both individually and organizationally, to guide you through challenging content, personal stories, and interactive lessons, inviting you to experience a similar journey of change. That you can take home and use to lead change and collaboration in your communities.

    This interactive and experiential training challenges personal biases and prejudices about poverty and provides frameworks to:

    • Understand both material and relational poverty
    • Move away from transactions and toward relationships
    • Introduces practical mental models and tools that improve interpersonal relations
    • Demonstrates discussion and group activities to awaken understanding and improve poverty alleviation competency

    Join us in learning more about relational poverty alleviation through mutual transformation. 

    For more details about the training and your facilitators see:

    EGMission.org/CCDAtraining

    Snacks and lunch are included in your registration fee. Registration closes for this event September 13, 2024.

    This preconference event is sponsored by Everett Gospel Mission and CCDA PNW Network.

     

    EGM partners with local churches, municipalities and government agencies, higher education and businesses to conduct this training. Since beginning in 2014, we have conducted over 100 trainings to over 3000 people in Snohomish, King, and Pierce Counties in Washington.

    The Pacific Northwest Regional Network (CCDA PNW) is one of more than 20 local networks operating under the umbrella of the Christian Community Development Association. Learn more at ccdapnw.com.


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  • Wed Go & Sees

    • Wednesday, October 02, 2024
    • 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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    Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice and Eloheh Farm & Seeds

    Explore Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice and Eloheh Farm & Seeds, led by Randy and Edith Woodley, Indigenous authors and speakers. Learn Indigenous wisdom applied to regenerative land practices, addressing climate change. Join us for an immersive experience the Wednesday before Conference. For over 30 years, the Woodleys have cultivated Eloheh as a community, farm, and learning center. Discover harmony and shalom through this learning experience, uniting Native and non-Native communities. The center invites all to learn about permaculture, Indigenous spirituality, leadership, racial equity, and ecological care. Price Includes Transportation. Eloheh is generously volunteering their time but a donation is greatly appreciated. Grab and go lunches are available at the convention center and are recommended to eat on your way out to Eloheh.

    Every Child PDX - ODHS State Child Welfare Office

    Every Child PDX mobilizes the community to support children and families impacted by foster care. We help churches, businesses, civic organizations, and individuals get connected to their local child welfare community. We will show participants what a local child welfare office supported by their community looks like. Participants will get to see a makeover at the office, hear from social workers receiving support, and participate in an appreciation lunch hosted by Every Child PDX volunteers.

    Jubilee Hall PDX in East Portland 

    Hop on the MAX line and get a taste (literally) of East Portland. Meet the founders of Jubilee Hall, a non-profit cafe that trains, equips, and empowers refugees and immigrants with job skills, English skills, and mutual cultural understanding. Connect over lunch and a cup of specialty coffee (or authentic house chai), engage with a panel of faithful Portland community leaders, and conclude the visit by prayer walking in the neighborhood.

    River City Church

    River City Church is a small (50-60 ppl) 5yo church plant with a large impact in the city. Having logged over 50,000 volunteer hours, and having been featured over 40 times in our local newspaper (for positive reasons), we will aim to show you how we have such a large impact on a shoestring budget. Located in one of the most diverse districts in the Portland Metro, come see how we work alongside the marginalized to uplift their communities in equitable ways.
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  • Empowering the City

    • Wednesday, October 02, 2024
    • 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • Oregon Convention Center, Portland Ballroom 252, 2nd Floor
    • 95
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    As someone who cares deeply about those experiencing poverty in your community, you are following Christ’s example of ministering to the overlooked and undervalued.

    God is working in your city, and we want to join our passion for equipping Christian leaders with your unique knowledge of your community and surrounding city.

    Our Shared Commitment

    World Impact is hosting an important conversation, titled Empowering the City, about our shared commitment to equipping you and other urban leaders for ministry in cities and communities across the country and worldwide.

    Join Rev. Dr. Alvin Sanders for his CCDA Preconference event on Wednesday, October 2nd, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

    We will be discussing the following:

    • The critical work church leaders are undertaking in service of the Kingdom of God
    • Your role in supporting that work
    • How to bring others into this work

    Come learn and network with the goal of improving the health of our communities together.

    Those attending this session will receive several free resources, and three people will win a free one-hour Zoom call session with Dr. Sanders.

    Please register now if you plan to attend. Walk-ins will also be welcomed!

    This preconference is sponsored by World Impact. 

    We believe pastors and urban ministry leaders deserve training to work effectively in communities of poverty.

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  • Making Faith Matter More

    • Wednesday, October 02, 2024
    • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • Oregon Convention Center, Meeting Room A 105, 1st Floor
    • 29
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    Join us for learning, conversations, and invitations that will help you make faith matter more to the youth and young adults in your areas. We will take a deep look at TENx10's 7 Discipleship Emphases, listen to and connect with our partners to see how to utilize those emphases, and take a look at how to make that happen in your ministry.

    Join Ten X 10 and Fuller Youth Institute for this CCDA Preconference event on Wednesday, October 2nd, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

    We will be have the following schedule:

    • 1:00 - 1:30pm Welcome/Introductions Review of outcomes and schedule 
    • Faith Matters More for young people according to John 10:10
    • 1:30 - 1:55pm Why these 7 Discipleship Emphases 
    • BREAK 
    • 2:00pm – 3:00pm Identity, Belonging, and Purpose in Action 
    • 3:00 - 3:45pm Assessing the 7 Discipleship Emphases you feel your community needs. Who is currently doing this work? Stories of success! 
    • 3:45 – 4:00pm Closing


    This preconference is sponsored by Tenx10 and Fuller Youth Institute.

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  • Thursday Go & Sees

    • Thursday, October 03, 2024
    • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
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    River City Church

    River City Church is a small (50-60 ppl) 5yo church plant with a large impact in the city. Having logged over 50,000 volunteer hours, and having been featured over 40 times in our local newspaper (for positive reasons), we will aim to show you how we have such a large impact on a shoestring budget. Located in one of the most diverse districts in the Portland Metro, come see how we work alongside the marginalized to uplift their communities in equitable ways.


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  • Friday Go & Sees

    • Friday, October 04, 2024
    • 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
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    River City Church

    River City Church is a small (50-60 ppl) 5yo church plant with a large impact in the city. Having logged over 50,000 volunteer hours, and having been featured over 40 times in our local newspaper (for positive reasons), we will aim to show you how we have such a large impact on a shoestring budget. Located in one of the most diverse districts in the Portland Metro, come see how we work alongside the marginalized to uplift their communities in equitable ways.

    Rahab's Sisters

    Does your heart break over the suffering you see daily on our streets? Have you found yourself wondering what can be done about a crisis so large that it seems insurmountable? Join us for a glimpse into our radically hopeful work addressing both the root causes AND symptoms of houselessness, poverty, and isolation. You’ll experience the transformative power of a community of women, trans, and nonbinary people coming together to build authentic relationships that transcend life circumstances, and you will leave with a deeper understanding of the parallel crises we see on our streets.

    Our space is located in a historically under-resourced part of SE Portland, and our 30-minute public transit journey will provide an opportunity to learn more about our city and where services are traditionally located. Lunch is not provided, though we’ll have refreshments available throughout the visit.



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  • Border Southwest CCDA Gathering 2025

    • Thursday, February 20, 2025
    • Saturday, February 22, 2025
    • Phoenix, AZ


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    Border Southwest CCDA Gathering 2025

    Neighborhood Ministries

    1918 W. Van Buren St.

    Phoenix, AZ 85009

    February 20-22, 2025

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