Coming home to Vista Hermosa When they were teenagers, Suzanne Broetje and Laura Peréz moved with their families to a valley along the Snake River in southeastern Washington State. Their first experiences of the place couldn’t have been more different. Suzanne’s parents, Cheryl and Ralph [...]Read More
Rural Justice (Part 2)
Two practitioners share the ins and outs of doing CCD in rural America [In the first part of the series], we interviewed Rev. Tim Olsen of Summit House, part of Sioux Falls Seminary in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. [For part two], we talked with Pat Vander Pol, ministry coordinator of Justice for All [...]Read More
Rural Justice (Part 1)
Two practitioners share the ins and outs of doing CCD in rural America [In this two part series], we ask two rural CCD practitioners—Rev. Tim Olsen of South Dakota and Pat Vander Pol of Iowa—about their ministries, their areas, and about living out the 3R's. We also posed the ultimate question: [...]Read More
In God We Really, Truly Trust
Haiti after the earthquake Hope struggled against despair in the Haitian community where Janet Dorrell was volunteering at a medical clinic after the January 2010 earthquake. People "were wounded, they were injured, they had broken legs, they had lost limbs, they were trying to take care of each [...]Read More
Develop Communities through Art
A client at the shelter where I serve has trouble walking due to a work accident. If it were up to him, he would sit in his wheelchair all day because walking is a painful challenge. For some time, every day was a battle between him and I—me, prodding him to exercise with his walker; him, refusing [...]Read More
Asian Roundtable Heats Up
From small beginnings, Craig Wong pioneered what has become an exciting and important forum for CCDA's future For the past twelve [National Conferences], CCDA board member Craig Wong has faithfully hosted a small networking [lunch] to gather Asians of every ethnicity. [In 2009], which marked the [...]Read More
Triumphing in Tough Time$
Ministry Leaders Offer Their Strategies Restorer Editor, Pam Touissant interviews the Executive Directors of three CCD Ministries to get tips on how to keep their programs financially sustainable in difficult times. Ministry Leaders Offer Their Strategies Crissy Brooks Executive [...]Read More
True Advocacy: Beyond the Protest Sign
An Interview with Craig Wong, Executive Director, Grace Urban Ministries, San Francisco Long-time CCDAer, Craig Wong is a Chinese-American, attending a church of mostly middle-class professionals in the Bay Area, and ministering in a neighborhood called "The Mission District," a struggling Latino [...]Read More