Macon 3 D Session 1
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This document summarizes objectives and topics discussed at a meeting of Shalom Zone coordinators in Macon, Georgia. The meeting aimed to: 1) introduce the Shalom Zone model of asset-based community development; 2) identify strengths and goals within each zone; and 3) discover shared priorities. Attendees learned about building community through collaboration, focusing on assets rather than deficiencies, and connecting resources to local issues. They also discussed the meaning of "Shalom" and applying its principles of well-being, health and prosperity within their neighborhoods.
Macon 3 D Session 1
- 2. Travis Blackwell, Community Partnership Carolyn Glover, Shalom Zone Coordinator Group Introduction Name 1 little known fact about yourself
- 3. SERIES OBJECTIVES: Relationship and Resource Building In Macon’s Shalom Zones • Become Familiar with Shalom Zone Model and Asset-based Community Development • Discover and Build the Assets in People • Understand the Poverty Environment and the Causes of Poverty In Your Shalom Zone • Grow and Strengthen your Shalom Zone team!
- 4. TODAY’S OBJECTIVES: Relationship and Resource Building In Macon’s Shalom Zones • Understand Shalom Zones and ABCD • Identify: Where You Are Now Where You Want To Be • Discover Common Priorities Among Shalom Zones • Share News From Shalom Zones
- 5. Welcome MOWD Mobile Lab! Sheknita Davis, Adult/Dislocated Worker Coordinator, MOWD
- 7. • Communities of Shalom seeks to build community, weave unity, and transform the world one community at a time. • Shalom teams engage congregations and communities to build a future of hope and peace together through multi- cultural, multi-faith, collaboration and asset-based community development
- 8. • Renewing the spirit of God in communities and congregations • Developing the prosperity and economies of communities • Strengthening relationships among neighbors • Improving community health care and coordination of services
- 9. WHAT DOES SHALOM MEAN? Shalom, as employed by the prophets, has many threads of meaning: health, healing, harmony, welfare, wholeness, and well- being. This rich fabric can be missed when we simply translate the Hebrew word as ‘peace’.
- 10. “Seek the shalom of the city where I have sent you, for in its shalom, you will find your shalom.” Jeremiah 29:7
- 11. 1. Discuss at your table where you see yourself in the scripture 2. Write your observations on a Learning piece of paper Task #1 3. Share one or two observations from your table with the group
- 13. • Focusing on Strengths, Not Deficiencies • Solving Community Issues by Connecting the Dots • Building Resources and Creating New Opportunities • Glass Half-Full
- 14. Inside Every Need Is An Asset (From The Power of Asset Mapping, Luther Snow) • Needs point to things we care about • When we say we need something, we are trying to strengthen or protect something we care about • The thing we care about is an asset • Saying that we need something points us to something we already have and value • The asset is not the thing we lack; the asset is the thing we want to protect
- 15. 1. Discuss at your table some needs in your Shalom Zone 2. Choose one need, write it Learning down 3. Write the thing you care Task #2 about, the thing this need points to
- 20. 1. See handout 2. Discuss where your Learning neighborhood is now 3. Identify where you would like Task #3 it to be
- 22. 1. Get a flip chart sheet 2. Write the name of your Shalom Zone at the top 3. Draw a picture of prosperity in Learning your Task #4 4. Words can only be used to describe pictures
- 23. Mark the elements on your drawing with a color-coded dot Light Blue= Education Learning Green= Green space Task #5 Orange = Housing Red = Safety Dark Blue = Health
- 25. Next meeting date and location: February 18th Which Shalom Zone Can Host?
- 26. Upcoming Event: 5 X 5 Event on February 11, Houston Road area
- 27. Thank You for Your Participation!