Believers in Christ Church is a remarkable congregation in North Minneapolis that blossomed out of a ten-year-long friendship between Pastors Joseph Sutton and Mark Bettenga. Together they founded Believers in Christ Church, after the extraordinary merger of their two churches last October. Pastor [...]Read More
Ya’at’eeh
Check out the new 2012 National Conference video. It features CCDA board member Mark Charles talking about our theme for the conference, reconciliation. Mark has also written an entry for our blog about his experience relocating to the Navajo reservation. He discusses the idea of the Navajo [...]Read More
A Dreamer’s Perspective
How does Obama's June 15th announcement impact a dreamer? I was brought to the U.S. from Brazil by my parents at the age of nine. Hoping to grant my two younger siblings and I a better life, my parents sought to obtain legal status here. Unfortunately, they were notified by several attorneys that [...]Read More
Northside Achievement Zone
Northside Achievement Zone1200 West Broadway Avenue, Suite 250, Minneapolis, MN 55411 The Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) is a bold, place-based initiative with the ultimate goal of ending multigenerational poverty using education as the great equalizing lever. NAZ operates as one integrated [...]Read More
Party in the Dark
New Vision Brings Solar Light to Families Living in Darkness (Philippi, WV) In an effort to help bring lights to some of the 1.5 billion people on the planet who live without the benefits of electricity, leaving them challenged to find ways to study, stay safe or enjoy time together as a family, New [...]Read More
Why I’m Wearing a Hoodie
Standing in Solidarity with friends of Trayvon Martin I was recently invited to the White House for a ceremony to commemorate the life and work of Mexican-American farmworker and civil rights leader, Cesar Chavez. In 1965, Chavez and the United Farmworkers Union began a boycott of table grapes to [...]Read More
John M. Perkins, Justice, and Immigration
Personal Reflections on Injustice, Then and Now I spent most of last week in Jackson, Mississippi, on a retreat with some good friends from the Christian Community Development Association, hosted by the John M. Perkins Foundation. Dr. Perkins, who is now 81 years old, is one of my heroes. Born into [...]Read More
A New Year, a New Vision
Peoples Chapel Church Earth Day Celebration 2011 After years of searching the countryside for best practices in rural ministry, I found in my own little neighborhood the creative genius that is resident in every community of struggle. The genius is forged in the fire of the struggle, and the [...]Read More