UYWI04 Wrap-up Video

Urban Youth Workers Institute 2004 May 13-15, 2004 Our cities desperately need quality trained leadership! Urban youth leaders, the programs they run and the youth they serve represent much of what is good in the hood. However, the challenges facing today’s urban youth are overwhelming and therefore, the leaders we have must be more prepared…

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Discover IE … this Saturday!

The SoCal Urban Coalition is striving to build a network of urban leaders doing Kingdom work in Southern California. Discover IE is one of the first events that we are hosting. The goal of the day is to allow the faith community to listen to some community leaders and discuss the key issues facing youth…

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A PLACE OF HOPE (General Session 2 – UYWI05)

by Jeremy Del Rio Fri, May 20, 2005 Jeremy co-founded the Ground Zero Clergy Task Force/Northeast Clergy Group following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He will challenge you to walk youth toward a place of HOPE out of the tragedy of their daily livees by empowering them to live out their dreams and…

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UYWI07 Quote

“I see right here — This is what the future of the American church HAS to look like. This is where it’s headed. This is what American Christianity HAS to look like. Right now we have alot of images out there of — this is the image of the American church. 99% of them are…

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Troubling Tradition (conference in LA)

“God is challenging us to take the idea of troubling texts to the next level, to begin a new conversation across faiths and throughout the world, with the goal of realizing God’s own hope that all God’s creation may learn to live harmoniously together.” – Jerry D. Campbell, president of the Claremont School of Theology,…

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sorry… UYWI07 mp3s explanation

We said that August 20th was going to be the day we’d have 25 new workshops up, and technically that’s true. Technically, they are online. Technically, they’re uploaded onto our webserver, however, the web development tool we use is giving us an error when we try and add workshops to the resource library database. Basically,…

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Pasadena… A City with Multiple Faces

the west san gabriel valley urban coalition met at villa 500 community center. it was great to be hosted by mayra and amy from lake avenue foundation. the community center reminds you that pasadena is a city with multiple faces and is in real need of the faith based community coming together to solve the…

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Gangs and Racism Spreading in the West Inland Empire

The West Inland Empire Urban Coalition met on Thursday evening for a great meal, a time of reconnecting old friends and praying for the city of pomona and ontario. Milo Carrasco shared how since our last meeting, about 6 weeks ago. There has been over 10 shootings, 3 murders and an altercation between the poilce…

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LA Coalition dates/locations listed

John Lewis still hasn’t stopped working since UYWI07. Dates and locations hit the air today, so if you’re doing ministry in SoCal or are a John Lewis groupie (we know you’re out there), hit the location near you and network with other like-minded leaders. These gatherings will benefit you and your impact for ministry.

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to anyone who attended Rene Rochester’s workshop

Rene Rochester’s car was broken into Saturday night and she lost cash, checks, iPod and other important items. We thought we should post a notice on our website notifying anyone who attended Rene Rochester’s workshop and wrote a check to “Urban Set” that their checks were stolen and they should issue cancelled payments on them.…

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