Resources

 

Neighborhood Liaisons

One of the ways we resource local churches is by providing Neighborhood Liaisons who work with the church leadership to discover potential neighborhood partners and assets, create catalytic events to mobilize congregants and community members in collaborative efforts of neighborhood care.

Using Second Stories' paradigm of missional theology and Asset Based Community Development, Neighborhood Liaisons empower churches to strategically deploy their people, buildings and assets, creating partnerships with other churches, agencies, and nonprofits in the areas of, 1) community building, 2) poverty/hunger, 3) health & wellness, 4) schools support, 5) homeless/vulnerable, and 6) creation care.

If your church would like to have a Neighborhood Liaison or would like more information about how this works, contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

Web

The following links are some of the organizations and story producers we like a lot. Check them out.

Community Development Groups

abcdinstitute.org - Asset Based Community Development Institute, a great resource for education and tools for engaging in the best community development practices.

communitiesfirstassociation.org - Using Asset Based Community Development methods, the Communities First Association Transforms a growing number of communities and engages Christians and Churches in their community change story

ccda.org – Christian Community Development Association, green house organization for serving urban poor and marginalized people, working toward long term solutions

neighborhoodtransformation.net – Seeds for much of the practical elements of our process. Humble practioners with lots of experience from majority-world contexts.

timebanks.org - For every hour you spend doing something for someone in your neighborhood, you earn one Time Dollar. Then you have a Time Dollar to spend on having someone do something for you. It's that simple.
 

Local Practitioners

impactnw.org – Helping people achieve and maintain self-sufficiency and to prevent and alleviate the effects of poverty

sunschools.org – SUN (Schools Uniting Neighborhoods) transforms schools into full-service community centers that help youth and families succeed. (Portland focused)

compassionconnect.com – Free one-day medical clinics put on by local churches united around Christ and compassion

compassionse.org – Our local clinic in SE Portland

thementoringproject.org – Recruiting 10,000 mentors through 1,000 church-based programs to provide positive influence on a fatherless generation

rosecdc.org - Combines affordable housing programs with supportive services and economic opportunities to Revitalize Outer South East (Portland)

 

Missional Church

Parish Collective - this is a growing collective of churches, missional groups, and faith-based organizations which are rooted in neighborhood and linked across cities.

imagodeicommunity.com – Our church; a great community, birth place of this effort and an on going supportive partner (lots of cool stuff happening at Imago)

shapevine.com – Missional resources, ideas and people. Much of our online media for equipping will be found here shortly. A developing web-community and some theological blogging (great conversations).
 

Global Focus

lahash.net - friends who engage in partnerships with East Africa, advocating and caring for the vulnerable in response to Christ's love. Wonderful work coming from very similar philosophical framework as we do. We love it. You should check it out.

thesenumbers.com - friends who work to confront generational poverty in South Africa by providing college scholarships for youth in the township of Gugulethu. These Numbers Have Faces releases many amazing stories of inspiration.

christianassociates.org - church planters in Europe and now in the US too. Kindred spirits with Second Stories on multiple levels.

 

Books

Books often tell stories, but the books we're recommending create stories; second stories. Have a look see.

Relationship with the Mission-“ing” God

Campolo, Tony & Mary Darling; The God of Intimacy and Action (Jossey-Bass, 2007)

Willard, Dallas; Spirit of the Disciplines, (HarperCollins, 1988)

Willard, Dallas; Divine Conspiracy,  (HarperCollins, 1997)

Willard, Dallas, Renovation of the Heart (NavPress Publishing Group, 2002)

Hettinga, Jan; Follow Me, (NavPress Publishing Group, September 1996)

Nouwen, Henri; Making all things New (HarperCollins, 1981)

Missional Theory and Leadership Development

Guder, Daryl (Editor); Missional Church (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1998)

Leslie Newbigin; The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 1989)

Leslie Newbigin; The Open Secret, (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 1995)

Hirsch, Alan; The Forgotten Ways (Brazos, 2006)

Roxburgh, Alan; The Missional Leader (Jossey-Bass, 2006)

Frost, Michael & Alan Hirsch; The Shaping of Things to Come (Hendrickson Publishers, 2003)

Roxburgh, Alan; The Missionary Congregation, Leadership & Liminality (Trinity Press, 1997)

Frost, Michael; Exiles; living missionally in a post Christian culture, (Hendrickson Publishers, 2006)

Halter, Hugh & Matt Smay; The Intangible Kingdom (Jossey-Bass, 2008)

Clinton, J. R.; The Making of a Leader (Navpress Publishing Group, 1988)

Clinton, J. R., & Paul Stanley; Connecting (NavPress Publishing Group, 1992)

Nouwen, Henri; In the Name of Jesus (Crossroad, 1999)

Mc Intosh, Gary; Overcoming the Dark Side of Leadership (Baker, 1997)

Community Development

Sider, Ronald, John Perkins, Wayne Gordon, Albert Tizon; Linking Arms, Linking Lives (Baker Books, 2008)

Metzger, Paul; Consuming Jesus, (W. M. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2007)

Perkins, John M.; Restoring At-Risk Communities, (Baker Books, 1995)

Perkins, John M.; Beyond Charity, (Baker Books, 1993)

Perkins, John M.; With Justice for All, (Regal Books, 2007)

Lupton, Robert; Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life, (Regal Books, 2007)

Claiborne, Shane; The Irresistible Revolution (Zondervan, 2006) 

Multi-ethnic Church

DeYmaz, Mark ; Building a Healthy Multi-ethnic Church, (Jossey-Bass, 2007)

DeYmaz, Mark ; Ethnic Blends: Mixing Diversity Into Your Local Church (Zondervan, 2010)