Learning about Neighborhood Economics
Last week, three of us from the Transformational Communities Network attended the Neighborhood Economics conference in Jackson,...
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Underutilized Spaces: A Practice in Creative Stewardship
So…lately I’ve been hearing a lot of conversation about church property. As demographics change and congregations age, buildings...
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Tell the Stories
A few years ago I attended the ‘No Need Among You’ conference hosted by Travis Park UMC in San Antonio. Its focus was on the homeless...
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Neighborhoods Are Storied Places
We live storied lives. Think about it. Right where you are; look around. I’d like to suggest to you, as was suggested to me by the work...
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TCN Story Cafe November 2022 Highlights
A recap of November 2022 storytelling and celebration around the work of God beyond our church walls!
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Being Community in 2023
For me, the end of one year and the beginning of a new one is an interesting moment in time. It is a moment where I wonder how the...
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Collaborating for Greater Impact
Bracken birthed Schertz. Schertz birthed Universal City. Even though these three United Methodist Churches share some DNA and are in...
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Loaves and Fishes
Transformational Communities Network Universal City UMC Since incorporating some of the practices and tools learned through...
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Kinney County Coalition Initiative Emerges
January 11, 2020 Kinney County, Texas is a border county with 3,800 residents. Brackettville, the county seat town has 1,740 residents....
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Considering a Rural Initiative in the Rio Texas Conference
January 10, 2020 Of the 83 Texas counties composing the bounds of the Rio Texas Conference, 56 to 62 counties [67% to 75%] are considered...
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We want to be known as great neighbors!
Bethel UMC is in west San Antonio and is over 100 years old. A team from the church just completed the core training for Transformational...
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About My TCOP Training Experience
I was telling a friend that my ‘retirement’ was boring me out of my mind. But then along came TCOP. Actually, my journey from boredom to...
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Love Your Neighbor
Portland First United Methodist Church in Portland, TX has been on a journey to “connect and reconnect with the neighborhood around the...
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A Gift Isn’t A Gift Until It is Given
By Amy Moritz How have you seen gifts manifest in your community and church during the pandemic and social distancing? It has been so...
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Building Shalom in a Time of Crisis
by Bob Clark How do we continue to build shalom when our world is falling apart? As a person who is actively involved in building and...
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Building Shalom in a New Reality
By Dionisio G. Salazar We are all living in a new reality. The global pandemic has disrupted life as we know it. It has brought suffering...
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