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Church Forsaken: Practicing Presence in Neglected Neighborhoods

by CCDA Guest on October 24, 2018

Church Forsaken

God has taken me on an incredible journey. I was once a young man who was itching to get as far away as possible from my neighborhood.  Now, twenty years later, as an unplanned returning resident, I love Englewood passionately and couldn’t imagine living anywhere else. Church Forsaken shares this [...]
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Filed Under: Book Reviews, General Tagged With: Jeremiah 29, local church, neighbor, presence, returner

Witnessing the power of CCD principles

by Ava Steaffens on April 10, 2017

My first introduction to CCDA was reading the book, "Restoring At-Risk Communities" by John M. Perkins in 1999 and subsequently attending the New York CCDA Conference in 2000. The book in itself had already turned my world upside down. Then, being at the Conference and amongst so many beautiful [...]
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An Invitation Into a Life of Community, a Book Review

by Jessica Hoekstra on August 9, 2016

“Life in community is no less than a necessity for us––it is an inescapable ‘must’ that determines everything we do and think.” ––Eberhard Arnold “We live in a social order that has confused freedom with the isolation of the self. We may think we know one another, but our ‘knowing’ only [...]
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Living out Where the Cross Meets the Street – Book Review

by CCDA Guest on May 18, 2015

“I am convinced that we can no longer maintain old paradigms of ministry that compartmentalize and truncate the work of the kingdom and still make an impact in our world, which is in need of love and restoration.”  Some of us spend a lot of time in the streets. In our neighborhoods, in our [...]
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Empowerment Book

by CCDA Guest on September 15, 2011

Published: January 2010 Price: 10.00 (+$3 shipping) To Order: email [email protected] - or - contact CCDA Order this with the Empowerment DVD and save 20%! Price together: $20.00 (+$3 shipping) Description: The way we as Christians attempt to restore communities can be either harmful or [...]
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