[Dialogue] community in Peru

[Wilson Priscilla]

Does anyone have any news about the village of Azpitia?
Priscilla

On Aug 18, 2007, at 7:17 AM, Lynda Cock wrote:

> Ellie, I thought of your work with the mining community in Peru  
> when we heard the news of the earthquake.  Have you heard from that  
> part of the country?   Lynda
>
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> Subject: [Dialogue] {Disarmed} Re: congregation-based community  
> organizing
>
> In a message dated 8/16/2007 3:38:33 AM Central Daylight Time,  
> martin at ica-uk.org.uk writes:
> Dear all,
>
> Do any of our colleagues in the US have any experience of  
> "congregation-based
> community organizing"?
>
> My partner Derek is involved with the Faith Network for Manchester  
> where we live here
> in the UK, and it is exploring new ways to increase the influence  
> of faith communities and
> others in decision-making processes. The mechanism of   
> "congregation-based
> community organizing" (CCBO) is being used and Greg Galluzzo,  
> Director of the
> Gamaliel Foundation in the US, is supporting the initiative.
>
> If any of you have any experience of working or supporting such a  
> way of working, Derek
> would be grateful to hear of it, and any advantages or pitfalls.   
> Have any of the ICA ToP
> or other tools been used?
>
> many thanks,
> Martin
>
>
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> Derek,
> Ellie and I have been part of the Institute since 1970 and have  
> been local church pastors since then (with an interlude of five  
> years on the staff of ICA) using movement methods and context.  We  
> are currently co-pastors of the Northminster Presbyterian Church in  
> St. Louis and when we came here in 1998, the church had been  
> involved in congregation-based community organizing through the  
> Gamaliel Foundation of Chicago since 1991.  We have encouraged cbco  
> and I especially have been regularly involved in the St.Louis  
> affiliate, Metropolitan Congregations United for St. Louis (MCU).   
> I am currently facilitator for the St. Louis Clergy Caucus, the  
> clergy whose congregations have committed to MCU and community  
> organizing.  The approach is quite different from the Institute in  
> that it confronts the powers-that-be with power of its own (money  
> and people as Alynski always said) as a way of accomplishing its  
> goals of instituting what grassroots people and communities want  
> and need.  As controversial as its methods are (continuing the  
> Alynski style), it does get congregations involved in local issues  
> and with other faith communities they might not normally engage  
> with.  The most helpful book on explaining what the Gamaliel  
> Foundation and cong-based community organizing is all about is  
> Doing Justice by Dennis Jacobsen, a Lutheran pastor involved with  
> Gamaliel.
> Carl(eton) Stock
> St. Louis
>
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Priscilla Wilson
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