Travis Blackwell, Community Partnership

Carolyn Glover, Shalom Zone Coordinator

Group IntroductionName 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

• Discover Common Priorities Among Shalom Zones

• Share News From Shalom Zones

Welcome MOWD Mobile Lab!

Sheknita Davis,Adult/Dislocated Worker Coordinator,MOWD

What are Shalom Zones?

• 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, hasmany 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

Learning Task #1

1. Discuss at your table where you see yourself in the scripture

2. Write your observations on a piece of paper

3. Share one or two observations from your table with the group

What is Asset-Based

Community Development?

• 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

Learning Task #2

1. Discuss at your table some needs in your Shalom Zone

2. Choose one need, write it down

3. Write the thing you care about, the thing this need points to

Where is Your Neighborhood in

the Cycle of Empowerment?

Who’s Missing?

Neighborhood Residents?Churches?

Businesses?Agencies and Organizations?

Foundations?

Learning Task #3

1. See handout2. Discuss where your

neighborhood is now3. Identify where you would like

it to be

What’s Your Vision?

Learning Task #4

1. Get a flip chart sheet2. Write the name of your

Shalom Zone at the top3. Draw a picture of prosperity in

your4. Words can only be used to

describe pictures

Learning Task #5

Mark the elements on your drawing with a color-coded dot

Light Blue= EducationGreen= Green spaceOrange = HousingRed = SafetyDark Blue = Health

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!