Multiplying Laborers for the Urban Harvest

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• To encourage urban leaders to find practical, meaningful ways to promote justice and demonstrate mercy with the broken and needy in urban communities, and discover ways to display hospitality, generosity, and compassion in the places where they live and minister Sacred Roots: Retrieving the Great Tradition Capstone as the Foundation for Training Your Leaders to Rediscover and Retell the Story that Spans the Ages – Satellite Training is Grounding Leaders in Christ Jesus! As a satellite of the Urban Ministry Institute, our consistent, fervent prayer for you and your students is that you would all be personally transformed by the powerful Story of Christ, and that all of you, being transformed by him through the Word and his people, would find new, effective ways to share that Story in the communities and churches you represent. However we tell it, demonstrate it, sing it, or share it, the truth of Jesus Christ remains for us the same, vital, and true confession held so dear since the time of the apostles, and continues to stir hearts and transform lives today. Capstone was created to help you equip your students to understand, embrace, and defend our shared common faith, i.e., our Sacred Roots . Once understood and embodied, then we can train them to defend and contextualize our common faith in their churches and ministries. Capstone can enable our students to ground new believers in this essential biblical story of their new-found faith, and show them how to instruct maturing Christians to deepen their faith on the solid foundation that Christ's story represents. Our desire is for you as Site Coordinator and Mentor to learn to show your students how they can benefit from hearing the story of Jesus told over and over again in the context of both private devotion and public worship. As you have treasured Christ and his salvation story for years, may he continue to transform you through it, deepening your own walk and revealing how you may fall in love with him afresh as you both retell and remember the Greatest Story ever told. When all is said and done, when all quizzes and exams are taken, when all courses are completed, and diplomas awarded, only one thing really matters. That we have trained a new generation to claim as true and for themselves these simple but profound Gospel stories, OT salvation promises, and meaty theological affirmations of the Epistles which speak of an itinerant Jewish preacher who has forever changed history, turning it to the will of God.

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