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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007Chris Brooks has been facilitating the Urbnet Summit on behalf of the NNYM and began our time together with a “futuring” exercise. In small(er) groups, we were asked to imagine what a national network of urban ministries (Urbnet) might look like in 3-years, 10-years, and 30-years. Participants include: Virginia Ward (Boston), Brian Dye (Chicago), Tommy [...]
Urban ministry training resources
Thursday, October 12th, 2006Techmission is working with CCDA to digitize content from it past conferences and have launched a growing site with dozens of free downloads. Two of my personal faves from last year: Rev. Jim Wallis, “God’s Politics” (Friday evening plenary, 6:30 pm) MP3: Download / Streaming / Podcast / RSS Feed Dr. Ray Bakke, “The Gospel [...]
Protect Urban Families from Online Porn & Predators
Monday, August 14th, 2006Safe Families protects children from pornography, predators, and other dangers online by providing free internet filtering software and training materials to parents, pastors, and non-profits. Free resources include: + SafeFamilies Filtering Software + Online Safety and Media Sobriety Manual (50 pgs) + Online Safety for Parents Webcast Training + Media Sobriety for Pastors and Church [...]
Bario Shalom
Saturday, August 5th, 2006Peace + Love + Justice + Fiesta Latino churches have overnight found themselves surrounded by new middle-class ‘neighbors’ right in the barrio, while many of their members have been forced to move away from the communities where they have grown up all of their lives–because the can no longer afford to live there. The pastors [...]
Fighting poverty in NYC
Monday, July 31st, 2006The truth is, with all the gains we have made in recent years, one in five New Yorkers, or 1.7 million people, still lives in poverty. A closer look at the numbers reveals that poverty in New York disproportionately affects African-Americans and Latinos and is concentrated in several hard-pressed neighborhoods, primarily in The Bronx and [...]
Can you afford the ghetto tax?
Friday, July 28th, 2006From Barbara Ehrenreich’s response to the question, “Can you afford to be poor?” A new study from the Brookings Institute documents the “ghetto tax,” or higher cost of living in low-income urban neighborhoods. It comes at you from every direction, from food prices to auto insurance. A few examples from this study, by Matt Fellowes, [...]
Messengers of the Undeniable God
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006… a/k/a Motug or “Monsters of the Unda-Ground,” is a collective of 10 legendary graffiti artists and designers spearheaded by an original hipster, NYC LASE. I met LASE two weeks ago during Jesus Loves You New York. He’s an all-around urban renaissance man (musical composer & DJ, interior decorator, collectible toys & fashion designer, muralist [...]
What to make of this?
Monday, July 24th, 2006New York is ranked #10 on Money magazine’s list of “Best Big Cities to Live.” Funny thing is, the next biggest city had a population of 1.255 million (San Diego), and all the others on the list were between 341,000 (Raleigh, NC) and 730,700 (Columbus, OH). New York’s population: 8,143,200. I struggle to call a [...]
Elder care?
Monday, July 24th, 2006Urban ministry types have been wrestling with the disruptive effects of gentrification on our communities for years. Yet I’ve never really thought about its impact specifically on seniors and others with fixed incomes. The AARP offers this in their latest Bulletin: “When I found this place, I thought good luck was shining down on me,” [...]
Jesus Loves You New York
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006A 21 year tradition continues this week at Abounding Grace, with the annual Jesus Loves You New York outreach. Twenty-five or so guests from around the country and Canada are staying at the church and hosting block parties and concerts and a basketball tournament throughout Manhattan’s lower east side. If you’re in town and want [...]
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