Ep. 14: Getting Back to the Roots - with Rev. Cecilia Williams

Pastor Perkins and Pastor Watts are joined by Rev. Cecilia Williams, the President and CEO of the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) to talk about place-based people-focused community development. Rev. Williams shares her encouragement and disappointment in how the church responded in Minneapolis this summer. They discuss the importance of developing home-grown leaders in the practitioner-based CCDA movement, along with the necessity of engaging systems and structures. Pastor Watts discusses truancy and the schoolyard to prison pipeline as a practical example of a system in need of reform, and the long slow work of making change.

Rev. Williams highlights the CCDA Collective that will take place October 1-3, 2020: The World has Changed, but Our Mission Remains the Same.

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Resources relevant to this episode:

CCDA: The Christian Community Development Association

The CCDA Collective (October 2020)

Commissioned to Love by John Perkins and Anthony Bobo: https://commissioncircles.com

Episode edited by Pioneer Productions.