ABCD for Pastoral Community

Mesfin Kebede Retta
Mesfin Kebede Retta
@mesfin-kebede-retta
9 years ago
2 posts

Pastorals are believed as resource-poor people and change-resistant community. All these believes have just come from their life styles, government's policy gaps and insufficient knowledge about their contexts by outsiders. In reality, they are rich in lots of spiritual assets, social assets, natural assets and others. But, most of the development tools and approaches are designed considering only agrarian (crop growing communities) or with less attention to pastorals.

Hence, I want to invite you on the open discussion on how we can make most suit ABCD tools/approach for pastoral community.

Nice to hear your views.


updated by @mesfin-kebede-retta: 10/24/16 04:45:35PM
D Michael Blackie
D Michael Blackie
@d-michael-blackie
9 years ago
2 posts

Are any of your ABCD practicing groups members or affiliated with ccda.org member organizations?

Are there churches that operate 501 (c) (3) "Community Development Corporations" as a part of 'Urban Ministry'?

Mesfin Kebede Retta
Mesfin Kebede Retta
@mesfin-kebede-retta
9 years ago
2 posts

Dear D Michale Blackie,

Thank you for your interest in my subject matter - ABCD for Pastorals.

None of our ABCD practicing groups members or affiliated with ccda.org member organizations.

However, I am keen to learn about this partnership for future collaboration in promoting ABCD and other development endeavors.

Regards,

D Michael Blackie
D Michael Blackie
@d-michael-blackie
9 years ago
2 posts

Greetings Brother ABCD Practitioner!

Thank you for your response. There's a treasure of information about CCDA on their website, ccda.org and many, many books (ebooks as well) about using ABCD in "Christian" communities. CCDA practices the elements of ABCD as well.

The foundations of CCDA come from the work of (Dr.) John M. Perkins, and his living and pastoring in the poorest Americans at the time in the state of Mississippi. (In the 1960's era).

Here, In Philadelphia (PA, USA) A group in the city aligned with the Mennonite Church runs a successful community center and programs. http://occcda.org

I hope you and others find this helpful.

Serving In The City,

D. Michael Blackie, Organizer/Facilitator

ONE Feltonville

Follow on Twitter: @GoWestYoungMan1 #ONEFeltonville #ABCD

Mac Johnson
Mac Johnson
@mac-johnson
9 years ago
15 posts

Thinking about ABCD in faith community building, I appreciate the pastoral work of Mike Mather and DeAmon Harges. They have worked as pastoral ministers from Broadway United Methodist Church, in urban Indianapolis. Two videos describe their fruitful approach and interesting results:

1.) http://bit.ly/1O5ec46 (YouTube): Making the invisible visible |DeAmon Harges | TEDxIndianapolis (0:10:30)

2.) http://www.abundantcommunity.com/home/authors/parms/1/which/mike_mather.html (Abundant Community website) Follow link tovideo of Mike describing ABCD engagement uncovering "Adelita's Gift" (0:04:29). This ABCD pastoral accompaniment resulted in self-employment growing into a developed small business. This is also know as "Smart Network Weaving."

Such ABCD for self-employment and small-business development is also illustrated in Ohio in the work of Appalachian Community Economic Networks (AceNet). See a third, longer video:

a.) AceNet's former Dir. June Holley, in akeynote conference address to the Center for Small Towns (YouTube, 0:30:56) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V86KoCtLmo

b.) June's Network Weaving Handbook describes this community development approach: http://www.networkweaver.com

Aspen Matthews
Aspen Matthews
@aspen-matthews
9 years ago
2 posts

I know this is an older question/discussion item - though I have some resources that might be useful.

My introduction to ABCD came from a Jubilee Ministry of the Episcopal Church. Our work was done in North Denver, Colorado, though the Episcopal church is moving toward this model as a means of engagement and mobilization of congregations. I encourage you to check out their website on the topic:http://calledtotransformation.org/. It is full of ideas that may be beneficial in the pastoral setting.

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