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UrbNet Notes – Part 3
By Jeremy | January 11, 2007
- Paternalistic partnerships
- Money, resources
- "We’re here to save/help you"
- Not building reciprocal relationships correctly
- Urban pt/volunteer seen as “less valuableâ€Â
- “Take over†church plant model
- Driven by the clock/numbers
- Guilty Conscience
- Intentionality
- (Memphis $ w/o strings)
- Cross cultural youth activities
- Adopting urban communities – focused resourcing (Memphis)
- “Managed Gentrificationâ€Â
- Re-defining terms (urban, city and suburban)
- Strength/strength reciprocity
- Joint training events – (Cleveland) id local trainers that can work with both
- Cleveland – encouraging sub churches to adopt an urban church that is adopting a school
- Developing a leadership team for networking
- Urbnet to highlight & market best practices and build findings into NNYM opportunities
- Speak the truth in love: rebuilding
- Relational resources and responsibility
- Multicultural/urbanization as a gift to suburban context
- Gifts-in-kind/technical asset
- Build relationships through reciprocal responsibility around common purposes/passions (be creative)
- Maintain teachable spirit – willingness to learn
- Valuing differences w/equity
- Find common groups/ground
- Using guilt to manipulate $/resources
- Not building relationships correctly
- Not building capacity
- Lack of accountability
- Blame shifting
| Suburban Challenges | Ways to build bridges | Urban Challenges |
Role of city coordinator
- Stick with it (Hang in there for the long haul)
- Be opportunistic
- Connect and be reciprocal
Needs
Our city’s needs:- Rebuild urban networks
- Provide access to existing working models
- Provide reminders to locals that we are a part of a National body
- Redevelop and enhance Urbnet website (NNYM)
- Open source the website functionality
- Deepen real relationships (beyond the project stuff we are friends) – all
- Provide access to working models of city networks
- Connectors 1st
- Broader UrbNet 2nd
- Develop reciprocal connectedness
- Quarterly conference call
- Email list (city coordinator)
- UrbNet blog – Affinity Network in mid 2007
- Designate a specific blog that we all use and we periodically check into – you can set up to get updates to the blog emailed to my in box
- National agenda – city specific “themes†or “issuesâ€Â
- UrbNet marketing piece (downloadable)
Topics: networking, urbnet, youth ministry | 4 Comments »
January 11th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Why is there a focus on the challenges and not the solutions, opportunities or strengths of the group at hand to bring solutions?
You guys have the power!
Maybe I am missing something?
January 11th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
Maybe the formatting of the notes online is confusing. In the three-column chart, the long, middle column identify possible solutions. Aso the role of connectors and the bullets at the end, are responses to the needs.
January 13th, 2007 at 11:53 am
The suburban / urban discussion is and interesting one – but one that may soon be outdated. As we know – with the effect of gentrification kids who have traditionally ‘urban’ are moving to the ‘burbs. In the Bay we’re finding that to be more the norm than the exception. For us – many of our kids are moving to out of the way places like Livermore, Tracy Modesto and Stockton. They were traditionally farm communities who now are receiving ‘urban’ kids in droves. As a result, crime and gang violence is on the dramatic uprise in those cities.
So – how does a vehicle like Urbnet prepare youth workers to deal with future issues such as this? I feel the dichotomy you discussed may be a thing of the past.
Perhaps the discussion may have to be around immigrant and class issues, other than suburban / urban. i.e first and second generation immigrant churches and upper middle to working class ministries?
January 18th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Hi Jeremy,
Nice notes – all of them. I posted some thoughts on my blog at this link
http://tonytsheng.blogspot.com/2007/01/urban-suburban-partnerships.html