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Community Transformation Classes Slated for August
LOS ANGELES, CA (May 25, 2004) - The Center for Community Transformation will
be presented August 3-12 as a joint venture of Covenant Ministries of
Benevolence (CMB), the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) and the Pacific
Southwest Conference (PSWC) as the Covenant seeks to further ministries
of compassion and justice.
Courses are being held at the Mary and Joseph Retreat Center in Palos
Verdes, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Sessions last either three
or four days. Sixteen faculty members are teaching or co-teaching nine
classes.
The classes will be offered over three sessions during this period.
Sessions from August 3-5 include "Bridging an Existing Church Into
Community Transformation" by Berkeley Covenant Church (CA) pastor Al
Tizon; "Financial Management For Nonprofits" by Ed Delgado, dean of the
Hispanic Center for Theological Studies (CHET) in Bell Gardens,
California; and "Advancing Diversity in the Local Church" by Russell
Jeung, a college professor at San Francisco State University with ties
to New Hope Covenant Church in Oakland, California.
A pair of four-day, team-taught intensive classes - "Foundations in
Community Transformation" and "Advanced Fund Development" - will be
presented August 6-9. Four seminars are scheduled to run August 10-12
and include Strategic Planning For Sustainable Ministry, Community
Analysis and Community Organizing, Starting a
Nonprofit At Your Church and Integrating Church Planting With Holistic
Outreach Ministries.
Four-day classes cost $129 apiece if tuition is paid by May 28.
Registration for those classes after May 28 is $139. Each three-day
class will cost $99 (payment received by May 28) and $109 (after May
28). A deposit of $45 will reserve a space in the class. A limited
number of rooms are available at the Mary and Joseph Retreat Center
(www.maryjoseph.org) with housing/meals totaling $145 for three-day
classes and $185 for four-day classes.
Deposit checks are to be earmarked to Center for Community Development.
Checks and registration slips are to be mailed to Delgado in care of
CHET, 6113 Clara Street, Bell Gardens, CA, 90201. Class curriculum,
faculty and scholarship information can be obtained by calling the
Compassion and Justice Ministries at 773-878-8200, extension 5008, or
emailing its director, Max Lopez-Cepero, at
MALopezcepero@covenantbenevolence.org.
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