CCDA Emerging Leaders Cohort Retreat

I’ve been selected by the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) to join a select group of 20 young, emerging leaders to join their 3rd Emerging Leaders Cohort from July 19th-22nd. This Cohort is a 2.5 year program that aligns me with peers doing incredible work around the country and be taught by incredible, Spirit-led leaders who’ve invested their lives serving in the most marginalized communities and neighborhoods around. Needless to say, I’m humbled to be a part of this group. I have grown to admire CCDA’s vision for mobilizing Christian to engage in community issues with a development mindset. 

Below are key items of prayer that I’d like to invite you to pray over this next week.

Being A Good Neighbor

The Matthew 22:39 passage of “love your neighbor as yourself,” is a packed verse that challenges me every day in my pursuit of living a Christ-following life. Please pray for additional insight in what this means personally, as a family with Michelle and Avery, and what it means for my leadership at NeighborLink. We’re working on developing a leadership development program locally and I’m eager to hear from CCDA leaders and my peers on how they’ve done this in their contexts. 

A New Community

Please pray for the new relationships that I’ll begin making and for a new community of like-minded young leaders that I’ll be connecting into. I’m eager to see how God can connect and network people who are based all over the country for the Kingdom of Heaven.

What’s Yet To Come

CCDA has opened my eyes the past few years for the diverse work and approaches to community solutions. I have so much to learn and I’m looking forward to the diversity of this group. Please pray for new ideas, old ideas made new, and my worldview to be stretched in a new way that will ultimately impact my relationship with Christ and my leadership here in Fort Wayne. 

I look forward to sharing my experience upon my return.