Christians Supporting
Community Organizing (CSCO) is a bold national attempt to
change the relationship between the theologically
conservative parts of the Protestant church and community
organizing.
from the report by USC's Center for Religion and Civic
Culture (Fall, '99). For entire report see CSCO website in
"About Us."
PURPOSE
The purpose of Christians
Supporting Community Organizing (CSCO) is to work for the
shalom of our society (Jeremiah 29:7) and of our churches by
engaging Evangelical, Holiness and Pentecostal churches in
congregation-based community organizations. To work for the
shalom is to work for systemic/ structural justice within
our communities and churches. By engaging in this work, we
are seeking to bring all of life under the Lordship of
Christ.
MISSION
The mission of CSCO is to
motivate, enable and support churches and pastors of
Evangelical, Holiness and Pentecostal traditions to become
active members of regionally- and nationally-networked
congregation-based community organizations in their city.
Christians
Supporting Community Organizing,
Christians Supporting Community
Organizing,
P. O. Box 60123
Dayton, OH 45406
www.cscoweb.org
Leadership
Dr. Stephen Mott,
Dr. Dick Righter,
Dr. Wally Tilleman
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People
of Power on DVD Sets
There
are now six sets of “Building A People of Power.” Set 1
has a special price of $45 for 5 session (The World as God
Intended). Others are Set 2 (What did Jesus Really Come to
Do? - 4 sessions) at $55; Set 3 (Building a Church of Power
– 6 sessions) $75; Set 4 (building Relation Power – 4
sessions) $55; Set 5 Using Your Power – 5 sessions) $65;
and Set 6 (How to Develop – 3 sessions) - $45. Shipping is
$10 per order. Order at www.cscoweb.org/order.html.
CSCO
Relates to Organizers
and Evangelicals
Members of CSCO have been active in Boston,
Southwest US and the Midwest relating to organizers about
reaching evangelical, Pentecostal and holiness churches for
organizing. There have been real gains. As they relate
organizers are introduced to our website for their and their
members use. CSCO and Worcester Interfaith sponsored a
luncheon with Bob Linthicum for 25 EPH leaders,
representing 12 churches. Growing out of this luncheon
a large suburban evangelical church is sponsoring the Building
a People of Power video series for its outreach leaders.
CSCO members led
another all day workshop at the Gordon-Conwell Center for
Urban Ministerial Education (CUME). This year there were
60 students in attendance, primarily people of color, to wrestle
with the biblical and theological grounding, and strategy, of faith
based community organizing.
Website Progresses
www.cscoweb.org
In December 1693 hits came
to our website of which 832 came from our Google/Yahoo
ads. This means that 861 accesses can be broken down into
309 going first to our homepage and 552 going first to
another page. This is the summary of analysis you received
in early Febbruary on CSCO Discuss. We also advertised in
Sojourners, SojoNet, and Social Policy.
CSCO-Discuss
Are you aware of the CSCO-Discuss email list?
This list provides more regular updates about CSCO. You
can discuss your ideas with others. We encourage you to
join the list if you’ve not yet joined. To subscribe,
send an email message from the email address that you want
to use for the list to:
CSCODiscuss
- [email protected]
2005 Annual Meeting
In
Malibu CSCO members heard Bob Linthicum speak about
reaching organizers. It was very exciting and we all
learned a great deal. The main talk is on our website at www.cscoweb.org/talk.html.
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