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Christian Community Development Consists of 8 Components:

1. ChurCh–Based2. reConCiliation3. listening to the Community4. WholistiC approaCh5. empoWerment6. leadership development7. redistriBution8. presenCe in the Community (reloCation)

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sunday, october 26th

9:00 am Morning Worship

Schedule 2008

thursday, october 23rd

3 to 5 pm registration

5:00 pm Crash

7:00 pm snatCh (pete scazzero & rené rochester)

9:30 pm transFer with John perkins

10:15 pm DoWnloaD the ordinary radicals film

friday, october 24th

7:30 am BreakFast

8:30 am Worship UnplUggeD

9:00 am Challenge (your heart) with Dr. rené rochester

9:45 am Challenge (your Mind) with lina thompson

10:45 am eXpanD

11:45 am lUnCh

1:00 pm eXplore & Challenge (your hands & Feet)

5:00 pm Dinner

7:00 pm snatCh (arloa sutter & h. spees)

9:30 pm transFer with shane Claiborne

10:30 pm DoWnloaD

saturday, october 25th

7:30 am BreakFast

8:30 am Worship UnplUggeD

9:00 am Challenge (your heart) with Dr. rené rochester

9:45 am Challenge (your Mind) with lina thompson

10:45 am eXpanD

11:45 am lUnCh

1:00 pm a MoMent with Brian Mclaren

2:00 pm eXplore & Challenge (your hands & Feet)

5:00 pm BBQ Dinner @ the Beach

6:00 pm prayer for Miami @ the Beach

7:00 pm snatCh (alexie torres-Fleming & soong-Chan rah)

9:30 pm transFer

10:30 pm DoWnloaD

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“the greatest thing this generation can do is lay

a few stepping stones for the next generation.”

(Charles kettering, an inventor)

the leaders you will meet and interact with this week represent several generations. they

each have laid their fair share of stepping stones, many of which you will be walking on this

week. the questions you are confronted with are this: Will you be a leader who lays some

more stones for the generation that will follow you? Will you continue the movement, pushing

forward, changing your communities – not at arms length, but at the grassroots level?

noel Castellanos, CCDA CEO

phil Jackson, Intensive Director

WelcomeyoU are here at the First annUal CCDa national stUDent leaDership intensive. that’s right, you are making history and not only for you but for your generation and for the generations to come. now here are a few tips that will help you get the most out of the student intensive.

1. NO HATIN’ Just elevate!

2. OPEN YOUR MOUTH you have our permission to express yourself.3. BE ON TIME step up to the leader you are and can be by being early to everything.4. STRETCH YOURSELF When you meet mo’ people it will be mo’ better. 5. SET THE STANDARD HIGH Fo’ real, fo’ real represent Christ to the fullest! this is the first

intensive. let’s set the standard for the future. so . . . Congratulations, you are here at this historic first CCDa student leadership intensive. this is for you! take advantage of it, push each other, challenge thinking, inspire one another, and hear the spirit of the lord leading you to live for him and to serve him for this generation. Grace and Peace

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Brian mClaren

in high school in the 1970’s, Brian Mclaren was one of those long-haired, guitar-playing, overalls-wearing, sandal-footed Jesus people. (the “long-haired” part is pretty hard to believe now.) he spent his weekends playing in various bands (guitar or sax) or performing his own original music. he helped lead a small fellowship group in his high school that eventually grew into about a hundred kids - with “indigenous” leaders, i.e. no “adults” - and became a church while he was in college. With many of his friends part of the drug culture, he spent a lot of time helping his peers deal with their budding addictions and life-controlling problems. he planned to be a high school english teacher, or perhaps follow the example of

one of his heroes - C. s. lewis - and teach college. he started college as a philosophy major but switched back to english when he realized he liked the intersection of thought and art more than just “pure thought.” he never guessed that he would become first a pastor and then an author.

hth - Brian

noel Castellanos

By the time noel Castellanos was a senior in high school, he had

‘survived’ a tumultuous family life that included his parents struggling

marriage, a sister involved in gangs, and another sister dealing with

a teen pregnancy. through the influence of noel’s football coach,

he and a group of football playing, disco dancing, partying friends,

attended a week long young life camp where they heard the

message of the gospel in a new and fresh way. Christ became real,

noel’s life priorities began to change, and he and his friends spent

the last two years at Milpitas high school learning how to follow

Jesus and trying to reach out to other non-religious friends.

it is no surprise that noel went on to work in full-time urban

youth ministry in California. he then moved to Chicago with

his wife Marianne, noel luis and stefan ( his daughter anna was

added to the family a few years later) to establish a church in the barrio of la villita.

today, noel serves as the Chief executive officer of CCDa and is committed to assisting

Christians restore under-resourced communities through the love of Jesus Christ.

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phil JaCkson

phil Jackson at 17 was trying to navigate life as a bi-racial man

living in two worlds. the first was the world of the ‘hood in kansas

City; the other was the world of the private Catholic school in the

‘burbs of kansas City. this is were he learned the value of maintaining

community in both worlds as a means of bringing change to the hood.

he played varsity football all four years of college and wanted to

be a speech pathologist.

phil met his wife kim in college. (she fell in love with him

after attending the only football game he played in.) that’s

when she knew–she’d better marry this dude and help

him out. yes, i was a leader in the making even then!

rené roChester

First year of college, a graduate of Brocton high school in

Massachusetts, at this time in my life i was thinking … am i going to

survive my freshman year of college? i was an overwhelmed, frustrated,

dual athlete. i got caught up in much of the freshman knucklehead stuff.

i had hopes to make the 1980 olympic team in the next few years. i was

an out of state athlete adjusting to being a collegiate athlete at a Division i

school. i did not have a relationship with the lord yet…

Fall of 1977

lina thompson

in high school, i was class president my sophomore, junior and senior year so

obviously, i was very involved .....generally liked school and always got good grades.

By the time i was a senior, i could write passes for myself and for my friends to get

out of class. i hated science. Blew my senior project and almost set the science

building on fire with a Bunson burner. My teachers loved me!

i was one of very few ethnic minorities....we were very few in number...a few

african americans, Japanese, Filipino kids....we had our own little secret club.

oh yeah, i was also the prom queen my senior year. i hateD formal dances....

i thought they were stupid. then, my senior year, i was nominated to be prom

queen. i actually was not planning on going to prom - it didn’t matter to me that

i was a nominee. at my school, they always announce the winners at the dance

so it can be this big hyped up deal for two weeks....i didn’t care, i still wasn’t going. then,

a few of my friends who were on the election committee (they counted the votes) secretly told me i won....

DileMMa. i felt i should probably go since people voted for me—so i went. anD when they announced me

as the winner, i had to fake like i was surprised. the honor was cool, i just never really understood the whole

“royal court” thing.

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WilforD “tali” hairston

i recently graduated from seattle’s ingraham high school

in 1990 and accepted a partial athletic scholarship to play

football at Western Washington University. at the time i

knew i was much more of a student and loved ministry more

than playing football. But i felt it was my best chance at a good

education and to leave home. i was voted “cutest smile” by the

senior class and “most likely to be in ministry” by my church. But

i didn’t know what i wanted to study and had no clue what i wanted

to be when i grew up. Basically i didn’t want to let my parents down

and hated the school i had chosen for college. instead of continuing

down this path i decided to do what i loved. i transferred schools, quit

football, chose an area of study i loved, started coaching a flag football

team as my ministry, and made everyone who loved me question my

sanity or at least my relationship with god.

shane ClaiBorne

a few highlights from the adolescent years of shane Claiborne:

* shane was tn state champion in gymnastics (he can still turn a back flip if

you really put the pressure on him).

* shane was known to wear khaki shorts and a bowtie to high school (and there

was no uniform requirement, he just wanted to wear that).

* shane’s favorite high school bands were Metallica and reM, with a little

Beastie Boys sprinkled in.

* shane was what experts call a “late-bloomer” and was one of the smallest

kids in his high school. he had to sit on a pillow when he learned to drive, and

didn’t break the five foot barrier until college.

* shane was prom king, though he was many inches shorter than the queen.

* in high school, shane went to circus school and learned all sorts of mad circus

skills. he matched the world record for the most people in one clown car.

* shane originally thought about joining the circus before he started working for

the Church. then he found there was not a ton of difference.

Juanita irizarry

Juanita irizarry graduated at age 16 as valedictorian of kelvyn park, a public high school in Chicago, where she was a leader in many clubs and councils and lettered in varsity volleyball and softball. outside of school, she participated in a few church youth groups, volunteered at a Christian summer camp for youth, was a leader in an aWana youth club for elementary school kids, and played a lot of sports in the vacant lots of her lifelong community, humboldt park. she went on full scholarship to greenville College, a small Christian college in southern illinois. she majored in history/political science and spanish and minored

in Communications. Juanita was in too many extra-curricular activities to count, graduated at the top of her class at the age of 20, and declared

upon graduating that she would be mayor of Chicago someday. she met her first husband at greenville College, whom she married at the age of 21.

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