CRM: Empowering Leaders

Liquor stores and Churches

We don’t need any more liquor stores and churches in my neighborhood.” It would have been easy for me to dismiss these words but something about Jerry’s passion for the neighborhood caused me to wrestle with them. You see Jerry is one of the more influential men in our neighborhood when it comes to urban … Continue reading »
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Challenging our Assumptions

This post comes from a series of conversations we’ve been having in South Africa (and even some in America) this month within our different communities.  We’ve sensed God inviting us into some very exciting things, but we don’t feel …
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The Foundation for Building

Our collective of communities is coming towards the end of a focused strategy process called “appreciative inquiry”.  From the first section of the process (Discover), we saw that up to this point, God has been forming basically the same t…
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Street Changes in Pretoria

Street Changes in Pretoria: Our friends at this blog have put together a GREAT description of what is happening in Pretoria.  I realize that on the surface, this seems like an incredible waste of resources.  But I might suggest that’s oversimplifyi…
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