Upcoming events

    • 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! 

    • Thursday, November 07, 2024
    • Thursday, January 30, 2025
    • 3 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.

    • Wednesday, January 08, 2025
    • Wednesday, February 26, 2025
    • 8 sessions
    • Zoom


    Grab your bundled registration here to attend the 2025 Philosophy & Community series! Join seasoned CCD facilitators to cultivate your understanding of CCD philosophy and expand your community. Bring to the table those hard questions and issues you are wrestling with CCD in your context. Engage and meet new CCDA family to find solutions together. Go deeper with CCD’s 8 Key Components. Learn more about the series at ccda.org/pc!

    **Bundles are only available through January 7! 

    • Thursday, January 16, 2025
    • Thursday, November 20, 2025
    • 6 sessions
    • Online


    Come meet other CCDA practitioners who are working on the front lines of economic empowerment ministries. We’ll connect with other practitioners who are working in this space for the purposes of sharing ideas and encouragement that helps us grow together in the area of economic empowerment ministries. This peer-to-peer support network will brainstorm new ways to tackle local challenges in your communities. Come be refreshed and enjoy the fellowship of others who get you!  

    Follow our network here: ccda.org/economic/

    Click here to register for the check-in

    • Tuesday, January 28, 2025
    • 2:00 PM
    • Tuesday, May 20, 2025
    • 3:30 PM
    • Zoom
    Registration is closed


    Do you ever feel isolated in leadership? Are you unsure where you can find a supportive professional community to navigate tough decisions and challenges?


    The good news is that executive leadership doesn’t have to be lonely. CCDA is launching an Executive Leadership Peer Coaching Circle in 2025. Each month, a small group of leaders will meet together for peer coaching and collaborative discussion. In these hour-and-a-half sessions will include breakout groups where facilitators create space for participants to share experiences, challenges, and successes in a confidential space. Participants are able to peer coach one another through supportive listening, collaborative discussion to find solutions to challenges together.


    How is an executive leader defined? In this context, Executive Leader/Leadership is defined as Executive Director, President, CEO, Senior Pastor, or Business Owner. Essentially, the head of an organization who reports to a governing entity; the person in charge of the organization. Non-hierarchical shared leadership is welcome; please follow the link to apply for registration. Contact Mary Beth Meadows at marybeth@ccda.org if you have any questions.


    There are only fifteen spots available, so apply today!

    • Wednesday, January 29, 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    • Zoom
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    Living out the gospel means sharing in the joy, suffering, and pain of my neighbors. Sharing life happens through ministry of presence. In other words, sharing life happens when you practice being an active participant in the community in which you work and serve. This sharing of life can happen whether you are a lifetime resident, a returner to your community or a newcomer to the community. How did Jesus love? “The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.” (Jn 1:14) Jesus relocated. He became one of us. He dwelt among the people and embodied a ministry of presence. 

    Learn more at ccda.org/community

    • Wednesday, February 05, 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    • Zoom
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    Christian Community Development restores, empowers, develops, and creates opportunities for leadership. As CCD practitioners, we desire to help develop citizens of the Beloved community and not just clients of our programs. The core of leadership development is identifying, mentoring, retaining, and getting out of the way of leaders already in our communities. For CCD ministries, developing leaders from the community is a huge priority that requires absolute commitment; the payoff is that our communities will be filled with strong Christian leaders who love their neighbors, and have the skills and abilities to lead our churches, organizations and other institutions that bring sustainable health to our communities. 

    Join Turan Rush and Jeff Biddle from Midian Leadership Project to learn more about Leadership Development.

    Learn more at ccda.org/community

    • Wednesday, February 12, 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    • Zoom
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    Christian Community Development desires to see Christ’s love and the Church integrated into every aspect of life—engaging in the spiritual, social, economic, political, cultural, emotional, physical, moral, educational, and family dynamics of an individual and community in order to bring about community flourish. 

    Learn more at ccda.org/community

    • Wednesday, February 19, 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    • Zoom
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    Christian Community Development focuses on recognizing and creating conducive environments in which we—individuals, churches, and communities—rely on the power of the Holy Spirit, understand our own gifts and resources, and work together with our neighbors in their gifts and resources for the development of our community. Often times, Christian ministry, particularly in marginalized and low-status communities, creates dependency. The Bible teaches empowerment, not dependency. All people have inherited dignity by being created in the image of God. Many times, charity demeans a person and strips him or her of dignity. The principle of empowerment affirms a person’s God-given dignity and allows that person to use their giftings to contribute to the flourishing of the community. 

    Join Adriana Gomez-Schellhaas to learn more about Empowerment.

    Learn more at ccda.org/community

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


    Border Southwest CCDA Gathering 2025

    Neighborhood Ministries

    Phoenix, Arizona - February 20-22, 2025


    Registration is open for the 2025 Border Southwest CCDA gathering! Here is the link to register:

    https://nmphx.com/ccdasw2025/

    Border Southwest CCDA Gathering 2025
    Neighborhood Ministries
    1918 W. Van Buren St.
    Phoenix, AZ 85009
    February 20-22, 2025

    REFUGIO

    Our CCDA ministries in the Southwest bring us together every year for refuge, for restoration and for community.  This year’s theme beacons us to come and BE together, learn together and leave with some renewal found underneath the everlasting wings.

    From: Thursday, February 20th, 2025 -- 3:00pm

    Until: Saturday, February 22nd, 2025 -- 12:00pm (Noon)

    Pre-Conference invites - 2/19/2025

    1. Franciscan Renewal Center
    • Just in case you’d love to build a few more days for retreating around the Phoenix event … we’d suggest The Franciscan Renewal Center.  For their registration page connect here:  https://www.thecasa.org/
    2. Wednesday Racial Justice Pilgrimage in Phoenix - 9 AM
    • Join us for a pre-conference activity on Wednesday.  Please indicate in the registration form below you will be coming. We call this activity “Exegeting the City”.  This pilgrimage is particular to Arizona’s racial injustice story. Hope You can join us. For more information contact Kit Danley.

    Thursday Evening - 2/20/2025

    • Worship and Contemplative activity
    • Evening message:
      • What does refuge … rest … reflection … resiliency look like in the midst of our current sufferings – that’s the theme of this first night. We all need this message!
      • A community voice … what leaning in on God and community looks like right now.

    Friday - 2/21/2025

    • Worship and Contemplative activity
    • Morning message:
      • How do we learn to lean on God in powerlessness – as image bearers in Christ – How does suffering birth creativity
      • A community voice … Dependent on God – Lord, you and you alone are what I need. Using the Examen.
    • Afternoon
      • Go n’ sees
    1. South Mountain look-out

    2. Gladys and Miguel Perez – “Starts with the heart” homelessness and the canals

    3. Canan in the Desert field trip to a internally known prayer garden (symbolism of the desert)

    • Self-directed and directed contemplative break out centers
    1. Powerlessness collage station
    2. Art stations around encruciades – our contemplative activity source
    3. Prayerwalk in the neighborhood
    • Friday evening
      • Worship and Contemplative activity
    • Evening message:
      • Resiliency – what does resiliency require of us? What makes for a resilient faith in the midst of suffering, uncertainty and chaos. Consider the work and role of trauma
      • A Community voice – resiliency happens in community. A small group conversation around community in mission.

    Saturday Morning 2/22/2025

    • Worship and Contemplative activity
    • Panel of community members describing their resiliency, power and realities and the resources they are leaning on

    Psalm 63

    1 You, God, are my God,
    earnestly I seek you;
    I thirst for you,
    my whole being longs for you,
    in a dry and parched land
    where there is no water.
    2 I have seen you in the sanctuary
    and beheld your power and your glory.
    3 Because your love is better than life,
    my lips will glorify you.



    • Wednesday, February 26, 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    • Zoom
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    Redistribution means creating equal access to resources, power, and opportunity for all humanity. When God’s people commit to living in marginalized and low-status communities, seek to be good neighbors, exemplify what it means to be a follower of Christ, work for justice for the entire community and utilize resources to address the problems of the community alongside their neighbors, then redistribution is being practiced. A lifestyle of redistribution confronts the unjust distribution of our economic, social, educational, and relational resources. It breaks down our systems of poverty & oppression and decreases the economic disparity in our communities. As a result, our communities are able to flourish with the resources they need to do so. 

    Join Charles Cheek from the CCDA Hampton Roads Local Network to learn more about Redistribution.

    Learn more at ccda.org/community

    • Tuesday, April 15, 2025
    • Wednesday, April 16, 2025
    • Christopher Newport University

    2025 Hampton Roads Social Justice Conference

    ELEVATING VOICES, IGNITING CHANGE

    April 15 - 16, 2025

    Society’s most pressing challenges—from racial justice to climate change and far beyond—have profound implications for creating a more equitable and socially just future for all. In order to facilitate dialogue on these important issues, Christopher Newport University’s Center for Crime, Equity, and Justice Research and Policy and the Hampton Roads CCD Network will co-host the fourth annual Hampton Roads Social Justice Conference on the campus of Christopher Newport University in Newport News, VA. 

    The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers, policy makers, elected officials, non-profit organizations, community activists, business leaders, the faith community, and all others from across Virginia who are working on pressing social justice issues in our region.

    Proposals are currently being accepted for the following types of sessions:

    Full 60 minute sessions

    • Submissions due January 7
    • These might include: Workshops intended to educate and orient toward action; Panel discussions to bring people with a variety of areas of expertise to engage with a topic; Short film screenings followed by a Q&A or other presentation; Lectures/TED-style talks composed of engaging, informative presentations.

    Short 20 minute presentations

    • Submissions due January 7
    • Short presentations are academic conference papers or mini-TED talks: engaging, informative, short presentations. These will be combined with other short presentations on similar topics.

    Poster session

    • Submissions due March 1
    • Large format posters or artworks designed to educate or inform about a specific topic; share your research, activism, or art! All posters and artwork will be presented on Wednesday, April 16 (alongside the non-profit fair)

    Proposals should be submitted via the following link or QR code:

    Questions and inquiries should be directed via email to Dr. Laine Briddell, CNU’s Center for Crime, Equity, and Justice (ccejrp@cnu.edu) and/or Charles Cheek, Hampton Roads CCD Network Coordinator (hamptonroadsccdnetwork@gmail.com).