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Travis Blackwell, Community Partnership Carolyn Glover, Shalom Zone Coordinator Group Introduction Name 1 little known fact about yourself. SERIES OBJECTIVES: Relationship and Resource Building In Macon’s Shalom Zones
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Travis Blackwell, • Community Partnership • Carolyn Glover, • Shalom Zone Coordinator • Group Introduction • Name 1 little known fact about yourself
SERIES OBJECTIVES: • Relationship and Resource Building In Macon’s Shalom Zones • Become Familiar with Shalom Zone Model and Asset-based Community Development • Discover and Build the Assets in People • Understand the Poverty Environment and the Causes of Poverty In Your Shalom Zone • Grow and Strengthen your Shalom Zone team!
TODAY’S OBJECTIVES: • Relationship and Resource Building In Macon’s Shalom Zones • Understand Shalom Zones and ABCD • Identify: • Where You Are Now • Where You Want To Be • DiscoverCommon Priorities Among Shalom Zones • Share News From Shalom Zones
Welcome MOWD Mobile Lab! Sheknita Davis, Adult/Dislocated Worker Coordinator, MOWD
Communities of Shalom seeks to build community, weave unity, and transform the world one community at a time. • Shalom teams engage congregations and communities to build a future of hope and peace together through multi-cultural, multi-faith, collaboration and asset-based community development
Renewing the spirit of God in communities and congregations • Developing the prosperity and economies of communities • Strengthening relationships among neighbors • Improving community health care and coordination of services
WHAT DOES SHALOM MEAN? Shalom, as employed by the prophets, has many threads of meaning: health, healing, harmony, welfare, wholeness, and well-being. This rich fabric can be missed when we simply translate the Hebrew word as ‘peace’.
“Seek the shalom of the city where I have sent you, for in its shalom, you will find your shalom.” Jeremiah 29:7
1. Discuss at your tablewhere you see yourself in the scripture 2. Writeyour observations on a piece of paper 3. Share one or two observations from your table with the group Learning Task #1
Focusing on Strengths, Not Deficiencies • Solving Community Issues by Connecting the Dots • Building Resources and Creating New Opportunities • Glass Half-Full
Inside Every Need Is An Asset • (From The Power of Asset Mapping, Luther Snow) • Needs point to things we care about • When we say we need something, we are trying to strengthen or protect something we care about • The thing we care about is an asset • Saying that we need something points us to something we already have and value • The asset is not the thing we lack; the asset is the thing we want to protect
Discuss at your table some needs in your Shalom Zone • Chooseone need, write it down • Write the thing you care about, the thing this need points to Learning Task #2
Who’s Missing?Neighborhood Residents?Churches?Businesses?Agencies and Organizations?Foundations?
See handout • Discusswhere your neighborhood is now • Identify where you would like it to be Learning Task #3
Get a flip chart sheet • Writethe name of your Shalom Zone at the top • Draw a picture of prosperity in your • Words can only be used to describe pictures Learning Task #4
Mark the elements on your drawing with a color-coded dot Light Blue= Education Green= Green space Orange = Housing Red = Safety Dark Blue = Health Learning Task #5
What are the Top 3 Priorities in Each Shalom Zone? What are the Top 3 Priorities Across Shalom Zones?
Next meeting date and location: • February 18th • Which Shalom Zone Can Host?
Upcoming Event: • 5 X 5 Event on February 11, • Houston Road area
Thank You • for Your Participation!