Reconciliation and Kinship with the Whole Community of God’s Creation
We live in a beautifully entangled, more-than-human world, and yet, Christian Community Development has tended to operate from human-centered paradigms. We want to promote CCD principles and values (reconciliation, wholism, kinship, etc.) in a more expansive sense as we encourage, resource, and promote meaningful exchange between CCD practitioners who are seeking to integrate ecologically-informed approaches into work that involves the whole Community of Creation.
EDEN Network
We envision practitioners of community development designing their work in a way that includes all of creation to build beloved community and experience transformative kinship. God covenants with people and the earth together. When we work toward whole, mutual flourishing, we are aligned with God’s mission to renew, restore, and reconcile ALL things (Gen. 9; Col. 1; Rev. 21).
Living Water: Community Development and Flourishing of Creation
Community development has long focused on people and neighborhoods. Yet the places we seek to strengthen are part of a much wider community of creation. The flourishing of people is inseparable from the flourishing of the land, water, plants, and animals that sustain our shared life.
Join us on Friday, September 4 at 12pm ET for a time of worship, prayer, learning, reflection, and action. Whether you’re already integrating creation justice into your work or simply curious about how a deeper relationship with creation can shape your ministry, neighborhood, or community development practice, this gathering is for you.
Dive Deeper into CCD by Learning from our Amazing Practitioners!
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Rooted Together: Community Development With All of Creation -
Loving Our Downstream Neighbor Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice -
Ecological Discipleship Network – Indigenous Worldview with JR Lilly -
Bringing Order to Chaos: Biblical Justice and Civil Engagement Through Crisis Response -
Our Entangled Existence: Reimagining The 8 CCDA Principles Through An Ecological Lens – Stephanie Ann Vander Lugt, LCSW-A, MA, Wes Vander Lugt, Kate Lingbeek -
Plundered: The Tangled Roots of Racial and Economic Injustice – David Swanson -
Creation as Kin A Vision For a Land-based Approach to Community Development -
Urban Agriculture: Using Creation Systems to Build Community
Join the CCDA Family
Membership has always been a way for us to accomplish our mission and vision. We want you to succeed in your work, so we created a structure that will sustain our work of inspiring, training and connecting individuals and organizations just like you. We are constantly striving to update and scale the resources available to our members so that you have the tools you need to complete the good work to which God has called you. Many of these member opportunities you will see below! You can join for as low as $10/month.
