Training and Resources
ENP provides uniquely crafted biblical and non-faith based training and equipping classes. Learn more about our city and how you can be involved. Scroll down below to learn about how we can train and support you.
ENP Exists to Train & Equip You
Our city has a lot of challenges and churches don’t know where or how to get their people to serve. Every Neighborhood Partnership gives the tools and coaching so that churches can easily engage the lives of the families in our city so that together we can see a transformed community from the inside out.
Vision 22
Vision 22 exists to bring pastors together to meet the needs of the 22 most impoverished neighborhoods in Fresno.
Individual Church Training
As experts in urban ministry we have equipping classes ranging from 1 Hour to 9-Weeks. Topics include: Urban Missions 101, Being a Good Neighbor, Theology of Missions, Helping Without Hurting, etc.
Tours & Site Visits
Taste and see that the city is good! Amazing things are happening and tours and site visits give you a chance to see it up close. Adults learn through interaction so let us design a walking or driving tour to meet your groups needs.
Fresno City Summit
Fresno City Summit is an annual 2-day conference in March that exists to expose and connect a new generation to the work of Christian Community Development in Fresno and our nation. ENP is glad to partner in putting on City Summit.
20/Twenty
20/Twenty is a bi-annual 4-hour training for our ENP Partner Churches and other community organizations. Structure includes breakfast, lunch, main presenter and several breakouts that help develop the skills and the vision for ministry in our schools and neighborhoods.
Coaching
Once you become an ENP Partner Church we commit to meeting with you regularly. Each partner has a staff member as a resources line for professional and personal support.
Let’s chat about how we can help equip you to serve!
Resources
At ENP we love learning. Below are helpful resources on a variety of topics. If you have recommendations let us know.
- ENP Map & Asset Map (Organizations)
- City of Fresno Maps – There are tools available to search by Address, Parcel ID, Parks, and Schools. There are also many useful tools for discovery.
- Health Priority Index Map – Visualize the level of health burden within each census tract in Fresno County.
- CDC 500 Cities Project – Census tract-level estimates for chronic disease risk factors, health outcomes, and clinical preventive service use.
- CalEnviroScreen 3.0 – A screening tool used to help identify communities disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution and with population characteristics that make them more sensitive to pollution.
- Health and Active Transportation in Fresno County Map – Fresno County Transportation Needs Assessment map for health conditions compared their locations with existing active transportation opportunities.
- Fresno Food Distribution Map – Find local food meal services and distribution sites.
- Census Explorer – Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information about the United States. We provide thousands of interactive data maps going back to 1790.
- Race by Census Tract – Browse population growth and decline, changes in racial and ethnic concentrations and patterns of housing development.
- Regional Opportunity Index – The Opportunity Index measures 16 key indicators to produce an overall opportunity score and grade for all 50 states, Washington DC & over 2900 counties.
- Racial Dot Map – Each dot on the map is also color-coded by race and ethnicity. Whites are coded as blue; African-Americans, green; Asians, red; Hispanics, orange; and all other racial categories are coded as brown.
- Healthy City – Create your own data maps.
- Money, Race and Success: How Your School District Compares
- Fresno Unified Fact Sheets
- Five-by-Five Placement Reports – “at a glance” display on how a district or school is performing on the state indicators. They graphically display which schools or student groups are: a) performing well, or b) in need of additional support.
- School SACR Reports – School Accountability Report Card (SARC) Reports provided to the California Department of Education.
- Fresno Community Scorecard – The Fresno Scorecard is a public website that offers centralized access to transparent, verifiable data on numerous impartial, fact-based indicators about life in Fresno.
Books:
- To Transform a City: Whole Church, Whole Gospel, Whole City by Eric Swanson & Sam Williams
- When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself by Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert
- What Every Church Member Should Know about Poverty by Bill Ehlig & Ruby K. Payne
- Generous Justice: How God’s Grace Makes Us Just by Timothy Keller
- A New Kind of Big: How Churches of Any Size Can Partner to Transform Communities by Chip Sweney & Kitti Murray
- Making Neighborhoods Whole: A Handbook for Christian Community Development by Wayne Gordon & John M. Perkins
- Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor by Robert D. Lupton
- Neighborhood Mapping: How to Make Your Church Invaluable to the Community by John Dr. Fuder
- Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help, And How to Reverse It by Robert D. Lupton
- The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity by Soong-Chan Rah – Good book on how white churches need to wake up to the coming city reality.
- A Theology as Big as the City by Raymond J. Bakke
- Christian Community Development – ccda.org
- Neighborhood Transformation – neighborhoodtransformation.net
- Verge – vergenetwork.org
- Missio Alliance – missioalliance.org
- Neighborhood Collective – neighborhoodcollective.org/resources
How to Get Your Church Involved
We make it easy.
Step 1: Meet & Listen
Context is everything. We start with scheduling a one on one where we come to you and learn about your church and neighborhood.
Step 2: We Create a Plan
Based on your congregation's capacity and the needs of the community, we’ll develop a plan and process to begin equipping and mobilizing your church.
Step 3: Implement
You recruit and build the volunteer team and we connect you to the school, neighborhood and additional resources you might need!