DRIVE Hub Highlight: Fresno Street Saints

November 25, 2021 Alexis Kalugin ENP News, Equipping

This week’s HUB Highlight is Fresno Street Saints located in the King neighborhood and led by Joby Jones.

In light of DRIVE, what is the vision for Fresno Street Saints in the King Neighborhood? When it comes to the DRIVE initiative, our vision for the King neighborhood is to reestablish that sense of being connected but ownership of their communities. Being the catalyst and spark that an individual needs empowering them to take up the responsibility to see change.
How is being a DRIVE HUB in the King neighborhood providing an opportunity to engage your community in a deeper way? Being a DRIVE HUB enables us to engage in the community from a personal standpoint. it’s not about coming to our meetings or events. It is asking them to participate, be involved and speak up for your community.
How has ENP been of support to you and Fresno Street Saints? ENP has been great, the 1-1 meetings, instructions and suggestions have all been valuable to keeping us on point when it comes to understanding what Drive is and what our role is.
Up to this point, what is a victory that you would like to share with others? A victory that we have had is being able to bring on 3 people who are real community people willing to go out and embrace, engage and empower the community.
Why should a church/organization apply to become a HUB within the DRIVE initiative? A church or organization should apply because of the interaction that it brings with the community.

LivingUNDIVIDED

November 11, 2021 Alexis Kalugin Equipping

The last 5 years have been a wake-up call for many in the Church to issues of race and justice.

Join Larry Hodges (Northpointe Community Church), Jessica Criner (St Rest Church), and Andrew Feil (ENP+Midtown Vineyard Church) in a six-week in-person LivingUNDIVIDED class.

To register click here.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Book Review

April 28, 2020 andrewfeil Equipping

During this COVID-19 time, ENP has had to shift some of the projects our interns are working on. One of the projects we gave our Pink House Intern, Austin Hussain was to read a book and write a short review. We wanted to share his reflections and recommend to you the book Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire. This book has influenced the way that ENP thinks through its community development work as well as how we facilitate meetings and trainings.

Get Your Family Movin’

April 1, 2020 Amy Savage Equipping

Fun games and activities to do at home!

With our children home, there is plenty of time to enjoy fun and games! Here are some activities, arts, and crafts to share with your kiddos!

How to Build Resilience? Trauma and Resilience Mini-Conference // February 22, 2020

March 6, 2020 andrewfeil Equipping

On February 22, 2020, the Fresno County Trauma and Resilience Network partnered with Every Neighborhood Partnership to bring awareness to the impact of childhood trauma in Fresno.

The vision behind these two mini-conferences is to gather community members to discuss and strategize ways to build connections between the health care system and other systems to better serve kids and families struggling with adverse conditions in their lives.

The first Trauma and Resilience Mini-Conference was held at the Butler Church and approximately 45 people — educators, mentors, parents, and students– were in attendance.

Luis Palau Series 5: Equipping the Church, More Than Just a Bible Study

October 25, 2018 andrewfeil Equipping, Luis Palau Series

Every Neighborhood Partnership is partnering with the Luis Palau National group to create a six-month series that describes our work in the city. Below is the fifth post in the series from our Associate Director, Andrew Feil.

Last month, Jenessa Hefler broke down ENP’s Literacy Mentoring program. This month we will look at equipping the church and the diverse ways to empower disciples.

Education.

What mental image comes to mind? For most of us, it is the classroom. But what kind of classroom? Again for most of us, the students are in rows facing a teacher. Can I be so bold as to suggest that this model is a bit broken?

Sure it is what we know and for many of us who love and serve the church it is how we personally like to learn, but my time at Every Neighborhood Partnership (ENP) and in the city of Fresno has taught me three valuable lessons that I would love to share with you that will dramatically improve your training and equipping events.

Adults learn by interacting with ideas. (Pssst… don’t just lecture)

As we begin thinking about equipping the church and training the body of Christ to carry God’s redemptive message forward into our communities we have to be more thoughtful about the best way to do that. So a simple question. How do adults learn best?

20/TWENTY: An Outreach Training Event

July 23, 2018 andrewfeil Equipping

REGISTER TODAY

The heart and goal of ENP’s 20/Twentys are to give you a clear vision and the tools you need for serving our under-resourced neighborhoods. We design these to be interactive and engaging.

We will focus our large group time together around an exciting new initiative called Vision 22. Pastors Rici and Phil Skei will share about how they are working to connect churches across racial, economic and social lines together for the flourishing of our city.

Based on your feedback we are offering 5 different breakouts during 2 sessions:

4 Reasons To Sign Up For CityScope

September 14, 2017 andrewfeil Equipping

CityScope 2017 is quickly approaching. I want to give you 4 reasons you should sign up today…

The Whole Church

April 20, 2017 andrewfeil Equipping

This is part 2 of a 3 part series on why ENP believes that to transform Fresno neighborhoods we need the Whole Gospel, Whole Church, and Whole City.

What denomination are you from? Are you Catholic or Protestant? What do you believe about the topics of the Holy Spirit, Biblical Inerrancy, Women in Ministry, etc?

It is human nature to want to quickly put people into a box or a category. We want to know “are you on my team or are you on the other team?”. We want to know who is in and out is out (I have written here about that issue), but these are questions most often used to divide instead of unite.

The Whole Gospel

March 22, 2017 andrewfeil Equipping

This is part 1 of a 3 part series on why ENP believes that to transform Fresno neighborhoods, we need the Whole Gospel, Whole Church, and Whole City.

The word “Gospel” literally means “Good News” in Greek. So as we talk about the Gospel of Jesus Christ we are talking about the Good News of Jesus. Our heart at ENP is to help you and your church be a blessing to our city and to point others to Christ. As we go about the work of pointing others to the Good News of Jesus we have to ask… Is your gospel actually good news to the people of Fresno? Can people taste and see it? Do you have a whole gospel?

I don’t know about you, but I was taught that “The Gospel” was a set of truths to know or believe. The gospel communicated the fact that I am sinful, because of my sin I deserve punishment, and God sent Jesus as the solution – so that by his death and resurrection I can go to heaven.

Is that version of the gospel true or untrue?

Equipping