CCDA - Christian Community Development Association

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CCDA - Christian Community Development Association We desire to see flourishing communities with Christians (w)holistically engaged.

Lord, settle my heart.Still my fears.Help me to trust Your timing more than my impatience.Lead me not with anxiety, but ...
10/18/2026

Lord, settle my heart.
Still my fears.
Help me to trust Your timing more than my impatience.
Lead me not with anxiety, but with the deep, gentle pull of Your peace.
I will wait for You, because I trust You.
Amen.

Prayer by Pastor Jody McKewen

Did you miss a session at the CCDA Conference or want to experience it again? Check out the recordings in the store!ccda...
10/17/2026

Did you miss a session at the CCDA Conference or want to experience it again? Check out the recordings in the store!

ccda.org/store

"This is what neighbor love looks like in practice: Realizing that you might not understand my pain but committing to ta...
10/16/2026

"This is what neighbor love looks like in practice: Realizing that you might not understand my pain but committing to taking it seriously. Listening instead of gaslighting. Believing instead of doubting. Perhaps then, love can cast out our fears of getting it wrong and stretch us enough to be in community with one another." - Amy Kenny, My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church

10/16/2026

What an incredible week we had, beholding God together!

For nearly 40 years, CCDA has brought together churches, nonprofits, leaders, and neighbors committed to seeing communit...
10/14/2026

For nearly 40 years, CCDA has brought together churches, nonprofits, leaders, and neighbors committed to seeing communities flourish. Membership is one way we practice that together. As a member, you are connected to a national association of practitioners learning, sharing, and living out Christian Community Development in their own neighborhoods.

Join a community of practitioners seeking the flourishing of their neighborhoods.

Learn more at ccda.org/membership

"The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (...
10/12/2026

"The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22). While these fruits, qualities, values, or characteristics are universally true for all people, how did they find expression, uniquely, in each local culture?" - Richard Twiss

We are grateful to learn from our Indigenous brothers and sisters not just on Indigenous Peoples' Day, but all year round.

Learn more at ccda.org/indigenous

This liturgy was written this week by attendees of the 2026 CCDA Conference!Creator God, long ago you declared, “Behold!...
10/11/2026

This liturgy was written this week by attendees of the 2026 CCDA Conference!

Creator God, long ago you declared, “Behold! I am doing a new thing,” and we hear your words calling to us today. In the wilderness, may we behold your presence–your goodness, your kindness, and your love with us. Awaken our imagination to perceive your hand at work, for you are a doing God. And in this sacred space, we trust that you are forming us.

May we behold your gracious hand in our communities. Help us perceive the ways that our neighbors are working together for shalom for all. Show us those seeds that are sprouting all around us and in us, and how you are calling us to be an oasis together. Fill us with a holy imagination for a flourishing community marked by your grace, your justice, and your powerful presence.

As we go from this place, may CCDA be those who behold and abide in Jesus, resting in your love and grace. May we perceive your goodness in ourselves, our neighbors, and all of creation. And may CCDA be those who set a table in the wilderness, and welcome all to come and enjoy.

God, you are doing a new thing in us, in our neighbors, and in our communities. Help us to perceive it, partner with you and our neighbors in it, and rest as you lead, trusting in you wholeheartedly.

10/10/2026

"When we started CCDA, we did not want social responsibility, we did not want justice, and we did not want community action to be a tack on. We wanted it to come straight from the teaching of Jesus and of the Bible." Dr. John M. Perkins

We continue that same legacy today. Learn more at ccda.org/getstarted.

John & Vera Mae Perkins Foundation

10/10/2026

Inhale: God is in the desert

Exhale: New life is growing.

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