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

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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?

The Archer Filter

February 7, 2017 andrewfeil Equipping

Keith Bergthold of Fresno Metro Ministry, Randy White of the FPU Center for Community Transformation, and Artie Padilla of Every Neighborhood Partnership collaborated on the creation of organizing filters to separate the substantive from the superficial in the approaches to true revitalization. ARCHER.

What elements are absolutely necessary to be present in order to hit the target of authentic community building? This is a useful tool for every community-based organization to take stock of its approaches.
Do we recognize the true presence of these elements in our approaches.
Are they supported by our methodologies and the allocation of our resources?

ARCHER is an acronym for Assets, Responsibility, Competence, Harmony, Empowerment and Results.

Download the PDF or view the image below for a full explanation.

Transformation Requires More Then Doing Things for People and Neighborhoods

January 6, 2017 andrewfeil Equipping

This blog is used by permission from Stan of Neighborhood Transformation. See original post and blog here. Garold Elston of Neighborhood Transformation will be hosting our upcoming 20/Twenty on Jan 14th. Click here to learn more and register.

For transformation to take place people and neighborhoods must decide they want something different than what they currently have. Then they must care enough that they are willing to do something about it to see the change take place. If that desire and action are not there then no matter what we do for others might be good, but generally transformation does not take place. Transformation comes from inside people themselves and neighborhoods.

But we as Western Christians are focused on doing things for others. People might say sure I would like that and gratefully accept whatever we do for them but does that transform them or their neighborhood? The answer is No.

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