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links to other CB
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Mission to the
Americas
(MTA or MTTA,
depending on whom you ask!) Our parent organization, evangelizing,
discipling, and congregationalizing the unchurched of North and Central
America, and the Caribbean.
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CB America
A nationwide association of churches, dedicated to planting and growing
healthy churches with a Great Commandment passion, and a Great Commission
focus.
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CB International
(CBI)
A sending agency working in partnership with local churches, to share God’s
love with the nations.
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CB
MissionNortheast
The regional association of CB
churches in New England and New York, partners in ministry together for
Christ’s glory.
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Mid-Atlantic Conservative Baptist Association
(MACBA) The regional
association of CB churches in the Middle Atlantic states, winning, building,
equipping and multiplying disciples of Jesus Christ.
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links to ministries that SHARE OUR TRAINING PHILOSOPHY |
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SEAN-UK
is the British centre for Study by Extension for All Nations, the ministry
which created Abundant Life and Life of Christ. Explore this site for other
group study books, the history of SEAN in South America, and others’
comments on the material.
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Train & Multiply presents the
model of pastoral education and church planting developed over a lifetime of
successful ministry by George Patterson, a missionary with MTA in Honduras,
now on the staff of Western Seminary, Portland, Oregon. Closely related is
Acquire Wisdom, directed by Galen Currah.
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schools that have developed urban ministries |
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The
Tony Campolo School of Social Change
at Eastern University, St Davids, PA, near Philadelphia.
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CUME, the Center for Urban
Ministry Education, is the Boston site of Gordon-Conwell Seminary, offering
M.A. and M.Div. programs.
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SCUPE,
the Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education in Chicago, coordinates
urban ministry programs for seven seminaries across the mid-section of
America.
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other
urban ministry resources |
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These websites have great
resources and thought-provoking ideas for ministry in the cities of America,
and ministry to the youth of America. We don’t endorse everything you might
read in these pages; that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t read and ponder over
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Urban
On-Ramps is a wonderful “blog”
maintained by Rudy Carrasco of the
Harambee Christian Family Center
in northwest Pasadena. Harambee, for you older and/or well-read Christian
leaders, was founded by John and Vera Mae Perkins.
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Both John and Rudy are key
leaders in the
Christian Community Development Association, which
networks urban Christians who want to show their faith in Christ by
rebuilding urban communities. Don’t miss CCDA’s membership directory!
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The closely related
Nehemiah
Urban Ministries Int. (NUMI) has taken up specific
development projects to empower people in the developing world, and in urban
America.
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Re-generation
Quarterly and
NextWave.org are two zines that
identify with Christian youth of America, and their voices are well worth
hearing.
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cityvoices reflects the long-time urban studies of Ray
Bakke and Roger Johnson. It’s full of ministry models, factoids, and
philosophy from around the world, but the main emphasis is still on the US,
and particularly Chicago. Quarterly newsletters have contributions from a
wide range of denominations and Christian traditions; relatively scholarly.
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Emmanuel Gospel Center in
Boston has a long and detailed weblink/bibliography of
urban
ministry resources.
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Westminster Seminary,
Philadelphia, sponsored the
Urban Mission Journal for some
16 years, under the editorial leadership of Harvie Conn and Manuel Ortiz.
Articles from 1997 and 1998 are still on line.
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McCormick Theological Seminary
in Chicago publishes the
Urban eJournal on line, with
over four years of issues archived. Looks more like a compendium of student
papers. McCormick is related to the Presbyterian Church (USA).
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