CCDA’s mission is to strengthen and inspire Christian Community Development practitioners for community transformation through equipping and connecting. Our National Conference is a prime venue for CCDA organizations and partners to gather their teams to network and experience inspiration, training, and connection. Join us in Grand Rapids, Michigan from November 5-8, 2025 for amazing preconference events, speakers, workshops, worship, networking sessions, and more!
Learn more about this year’s Preconference Events!
Leap of Faith Film Screening
Wednesday 11/5 | 1 PM – 4 PM
Leap of Faith demonstrates that faith communities have an extraordinarily important and positive role to play in a time of such deep national polarization.
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A Focus On Healing
Wednesday 11/5 | 1 PM – 4:30 PM
Join us for a restorative space for faith-rooted leaders to process the pain they carry and begin a journey toward healing in community.
Worked All Through: Raising a Flourishing Community
Wednesday 11/5 | 8 AM – 4:30 PM
Join us as we seek to work violence prevention into our communities, to see them safe and flourishing.
Strong but Struggling: Soul Care for the Community Caregiver
Wednesday 11/5 | 1:30 PM – 3 PM
Caring for others can take a toll. If you’re feeling weary or worn thin, this workshop is for you.
Disrupting Injustice: Nonviolent Tactics For Community Defense
Wednesday 11/5 | 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Come ready to move, feel, and think deeply about what it means to protect your community and disrupt injustice before it becomes normalized.
Sacred Work: Mental Health, Justice, and the Call to Care for BIPoC Youth
Wednesday 11/5 | 9 AM – 3 PM
Designed for those who want to deepen their practice of culturally responsive care for BIPoC youth navigating mental health challenges.
Afterschool As Mission
Wednesday 11/5 | 10 AM – 3 PM
This preconference experience offers both inspiration and hands-on strategies, empowering CCD leaders to serve their communities with relational love, justice, and restoration—living out the heart of CCDA in afterschool ministry contexts.
Internalized Racial Identity and Caucusing
Wednesday 11/5 | 1 PM – 4 PM
We invite all races/ethnicities to a meaningful experience that creates space to unlearn harmful messages about race and engage in personal work through race-based caucusing—a reflective, accountable journey.
Preconference Event Application
Preconference events take place during the day between 8:30am-4:30pm on November 5th, 2025. Applications for events are now closed. Check back next Spring to apply for a 2026 National Conference Preconference event. Preconference events available with a $5,000 Sponsorship, which may be waived for approved for Local or Affinity Networks.
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