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 [...]Read More
Our Cup is Full
Reflections from the staff at Mission Adelante Our cup is full.Our team spent last weekend at the 2021 Christian Community Development Association conference. The theme this year was "Reimagine" based off of Ephesians 3:20-21 "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or [...]Read More
New Book Alert: “Count It All Joy” by Dr. John Perkins
by Jemar Tisby A living civil rights legend imparts a lifetime of hard-earned wisdom in what may be his final book. John’s Perkins had every reason to turn his back on God and on white people. Born into poverty in rural Mississippi, his mother died when he was just a baby, partially due to [...]Read More
Spotlight: Voter Engagement & Support Networking Session
By Dr. Mary Nelson Now more than ever - voting, voter turnout, and good candidates - are crucial to the well-being of our communities. Local struggles on school boards, stances on redistricting, state budgets, as well as national issues on community safety and police shape the future of our [...]Read More
Kansas City, Here We Come!
By Vola Ranaivoson “We need imagination, not memory, to move forward" ~ Pastah Jonathan Brooks Covid has upended everything that we considered normal and pushed us to reimagine what life and ministry look like. Going back to a memory of what used to be considered normal is no longer an [...]Read More
Ministry Highlight: Hope Center KC
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, [...]Read More
Indigenous Peoples’ Month Resources
Thanksgiving Resources Mark Charles: The Myth of Thanksgiving and Racial ConciliationThis Land Belongs to No One: Thanksgiving Prayer Honoring our Ancestors and Native Peoples’ LandMark Charles & Soong-Chan Rah: Unsettling Truths5 Recipes From Indigenous Chefs to Add to Your Thanksgiving [...]Read More
A Long Arc of Justice: The RICC
by Sunny Sue Chang Jonas “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” –Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Positive change can feel so arduous and slow. In a place like New Orleans, a city that finally felt like infrastructures and ecosystems were back on track after [...]Read More