We integrate spiritual formation with strengths-based learning to support human flourishing.
At the Resilient Communities Center, we work with circles of relationships experiencing a level of fragmentation, especially networks of people on the margins economically, socially, and spiritually or organizations for whom they work. Our team takes a relational approach to resilience building, recognizing that poverty takes many shapes and forms, including economic impoverishment and isolation.
PRINCIPLED BY DESIGN
Our values within mentoring, training, and partnering.
Ongoing Formation
We believe that ongoing formation is an invitation not only for communities but organizations and practitioners at every level and at every phase of program rollouts.
Local Solutions
We believe that local solutions do not begin at research or implementation but are at the heart of reclaiming agency and harmonious systems for change.
Inner Resiliency
We believe that inner resiliency is rooted in connection to a story of meaning and purpose in Jesus that transcends one context while remaining relevant and accessible for the present moment.
Embodied Living
We believe in the power of integrity, acknowledging strengths and weaknesses in human flourishing while embodying a path toward wholeness that is made possible as we honor the parts of ourselves and the components of our communities.
SHARED LEADING AND APPRECIATIVE LEARNING
Our team of facilitators and support staff believe in the values of mutuality and curiosity in every exchange of learning.
We strive for staff, programs, and partnerships that affirm the traits of leadership and stewardship in every relationship and embrace the child-like “why” at all levels of engagement.
We are members of Discipling for Development, a ministry of The Navigators. Since 1983, D4D has facilitated transforming spaces among communities in sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and North America.
It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.”
Ephesians 1:11-12
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Relational Strategy
At every level of engagement, from learning to launching, our priority is repairing and enriching relationships.
Caring for the formation of individuals, teams, and communities is the path to relational health and resilience.
HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE
Resilient teams and communities are made up of humble learners who honor the complexity of life.
Each of the following terms provide a roadmap for what it looks like to heal and remake the many parts that make up you and your network of relationships.
