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Alma Lizette Cárdenas-Rodríguez

Wellbeing in Disorientation

by Alma Lizette Cárdenas-Rodríguez on December 9, 2022

Welcome to #ccdaAdvent. In the midst of darkness, oppression, and marginalization, Christ entered the scene of the first Advent and paved the way for our communal wellbeing. This Advent season, we invite you to consider what wellbeing meant for the community of first Advent. What lessons may we [...]
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Filed Under: Advent, Devotionals Tagged With: advent, advent2022, devotional, joseph, wellbeing

Creating Space for Wellbeing

by Alma Lizette Cárdenas-Rodríguez on October 17, 2022

Although the weather patterns here in Los Angeles, CA are struggling to fall below triple digits, the fall season has arrived! Recently, I had the privilege of sitting down with CCDA member, Angela Lee, Executive Director of Harambee Ministries to talk about the new season she has entered for 2022. [...]
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Filed Under: CCDA, Membership Tagged With: conference, harambee, rest, wellbeing, Women of color

Pastor Will shares about Wellbeing & Community Development

by Alma Lizette Cárdenas-Rodríguez on September 6, 2022

In this ministry highlight, I sat down with Pastor Will, who is part of World Impact, a CCDA organizational member. He shared about the World Impact ministries in Charlotte, NC (our Conference City) and on what wellbeing looks like for him and the organization. William “Will'' Francis is the [...]
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Filed Under: Advocacy, Membership Tagged With: church, conference, poverty, prison ministry, redemptive poverty work, trauma, trauma healing, uncommon church, wellbeing, world impact

Medicina on the Move

by Alma Lizette Cárdenas-Rodríguez on April 21, 2022

On Friday March 18, 2022, the CCDA Southwest Border Local Network, familia and community convened at the Tijuana-San Diego border to walk and talk through how God’s healing work has continually flowed even in the midst of a pandemic. The event's theme was, Rivers of Living Water: God's Healing Work [...]
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Filed Under: CCDA, Immigration, Local Network Tagged With: border, healing, immigration, local networks, regional conference, southwest border

Dreams Conceived in the Waiting

by Alma Lizette Cárdenas-Rodríguez on December 17, 2021

Welcome to #ccdaAdvent. CCDA invites you to consider what the hope of Advent meant for the women who were a pivotal part of Jesus’s birth. Join us in a communal reflection on the very real ways Jesus’s birth and incarnation required an unexplainable hope during a season of waiting and [...]
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Filed Under: CCDA, Devotionals Tagged With: advent, advent2021, devotional, dream, Mary, waiting

Ministry Highlight: Hope Center KC

by Alma Lizette Cárdenas-Rodríguez on October 11, 2021

by Alma Lizette Cárdenas-Rodríguez Did you know that besides being the host city for #ccdaReimagine and the home to the Hope Center KC, Kansas City is known as “The City of Fountains?” This struck me in a conversation with Rocky Hodge, the Director of Operations at Hope KC.  He shared, [...]
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