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Thursday, January 10th, 2008This is the final excerpt of my January 2008 article in the Tri-State Voice regarding the Coalition’s new adopt-a-school initiative. + Part 3 + Part 2 + Part 1 _________________________ SIDEBAR: “Case Study: How one church adopted a neighborhood school” In July 1996, thirteen youths from Abounding Grace Ministries established Generation Xcel as a neighborhood [...]
20/20 Vision for Schools (Part 3 of 4)
Sunday, January 6th, 2008This is the third excerpt of my January 2008 article in the Tri-State Voice regarding the Coalition’s new adopt-a-school initiative. + Part 2 + Part 1 _________________________ Visionary Leadership Coalition strategist Nicole Baker cautions that youth pastors alone cannot implement 20/20 Vision. Congregational support requires the commitment of senior pastors and church elders as well. [...]
20/20 Vision for Schools (Part 2 of 4)
Friday, January 4th, 2008This is the second excerpt of my January 2008 article in the Tri-State Voice regarding the Coalition’s new adopt-a-school initiative. + Part 1 _________________________ A plentiful harvest, but where are the laborers? With schools squarely in his sights, Pacheco has redefined youth ministry beyond the old paradigms of youth group altar calls and pizza parties [...]
Adopt-a-School Update: 20/20 Vision for Schools (Part 1 of 4)
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008The January 2007 issue of Tri-State Voice features a cover story announcing the Coalition’s new adopt a school initiative, “20/20 Vision for Schools: Transforming Public Education within a Single Generation of Students.” Here’s an excerpt: Youth Pastor Edwin Pacheco is on a mission to save New York City’s public schools. But unlike some who prefer [...]
High praises for the Playbook
Thursday, October 4th, 2007Chris Brooks is wrestling through issues of contextualizing the Gospel for urban campus ministry, and in the process gives a humbling endorsement of the Playbook: A Campus Ministry Primer for Cities, which I collaborated with Student Venture NYC to publish last spring. The reason the Campus Alliance (and pretty much every other major evangelical movement [...]
Monday Miscellany
Monday, October 1st, 2007+ Bill Cosby was right. Insightful CT interview between Edward Gilbreath and Juan Williams, of NPR and Fox News. As an observer of politics, I’ve seen the way issues of poverty are dealt with todayâ€â€everything from Reagan welfare reform of the ’80s, to Clinton welfare reform of the ’90s, and then coming forward to the [...]
Fulton Street Youth Track
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007From the Fulton Street Revival… Saturday afternoon, 9/22 Session 1 2020 Vision for Schools Presented by yours truly on behalf of the Coalition with discussion facilitated by Walter Sotelo More on this to come. Session 2 Double Vision Presented by Ron Luce Vision to ignite the local church. Capture the hearts of the pastors to [...]
Friday Foto Finish
Friday, September 21st, 2007PS & MS 34 alum Eric Velez addresses current middle school students at an MS 34 assembly sponsored by Generation Xcel and Abounding Grace Ministries. More assembly pics here. Related 2020 Vision Adopt-a-School Resourcestraining commercial loan officers forauto truth lending loans intulsa loans area services fiancialmicroloan dateline tvloan of typestypes school loans ofhome uk loanloans [...]
NYC schools a model for reform?
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007Nearly two years after the Coalition began urging NYC churches to adopt local public schools, New York City’s public school system, the largest in the country, yesterday won the Broad Prize, given each year to an urban school district that has made great improvements in student achievement, particularly in closing gaps between white and minority [...]
Adopt-a-School comes full circle
Friday, September 14th, 2007On Wednesday, Generation Xcel and Abounding Grace celebrated a milestone in their relationship with PS/MS 34, the public school across the street from Xcel that both organizations have “adopted.” The school invited them to hold the first middle school assembly in over two years to introduce the murals they painted in the schoolyard this summer. [...]
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