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, 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.

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  • Philosophy and Community - Bundle Registration

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

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  • Philosophy and Community: Listening to the Community

    • Wednesday, January 08, 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    • Zoom
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    Christian Community Development affirms the dignity of individuals and collaborates with neighbors to leverage community resources and assets to bring about sustainable change. Too often communities are developed by outsiders that bring in resources without taking into account the people who live in our communities. Christian Community Development practitioners are committed to listening to their neighbors and hearing their dreams, ideas and thoughts. By actively listening, we can identify community assets, opportunities, and needs and then cultivate, implement and benefit from a shared vision for our community. 

    Join Terrance Foster from The Firehouse Community Arts Center and Lawndale Christian Community Church to learn more about Listening to the Community.

    Learn more at ccda.org/community

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  • Philosophy and Community: Reconciliation

    • Wednesday, January 15, 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    • Zoom
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    Reconciliation is the essence of shalom—restoring relationships where nothing is missing and nothing is broken. Jesus said that the essence of Christianity could be summed up in two inseparable commandments: Love God, and love thy neighbor (Mt 22:37-39). Christian Community Development is committed to seeing people and communities experience God’s shalom. We believe that God wants to restore a right relationship between us, our families and our communities – spiritually, emotionally, physically, economically, and socially. In the words of the Prophet Jeremiah, “we work and pray for the well-being of our city [or neighborhood],” trusting that if the entire community does well and prospers, then we will prosper also. 

    Dive deeper with what reconciliation means with EJUSA's Sam Heath and Erica Washington. 

    Learn more at ccda.org/community

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  • Philosophy and Community: Church-based

    • Wednesday, January 22, 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    • Zoom
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    At the heart of Christian Community Development is the church, the body of Christ, fully engaged in the process of transformation. The church is uniquely equipped to affirm the dignity, gifts, and skills of individuals and communities. The greatest sustaining power of community development is the community building of a local church. Christian community is based on people living in the community and having a local church to worship together. It is the church where people gather to be rejuvenated and have their personal needs met. The church helps people to understand that each person has gifts and talents and all must utilize those for the greater good of the community. A worshipping church breaks down many of the barriers including racial, educational and cultural barriers that often separate people in communities. 

    Dive deeper with what church-based means with Rev. R.R. Tavárez. 

    Learn more at ccda.org/community

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  • CCDA Executive Leadership Peer Coaching Circle

    • Tuesday, January 28, 2025
    • 2:00 PM
    • Tuesday, May 20, 2025
    • 3:30 PM
    • Zoom
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    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!

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  • Philosophy and Community: Relocation

    • Wednesday, January 29, 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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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

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  • Philosophy and Community: Leadership Development

    • 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

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  • Philosophy and Community: Wholistic Approach

    • Wednesday, February 12, 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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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

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  • Philosophy and Community: Empowerment

    • Wednesday, February 19, 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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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

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  • Border Southwest CCDA Gathering 2025

    • 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/ccdasw2024/

    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)

    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/


    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.


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  • Philosophy and Community: Redistribution

    • 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

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