WorldHope Corps

Shalom Training Track at Christian Community Development Association National Conference   N ov. 11-12 th , 2015 Every year, over 4,000 faith-motivated, justice-driven, community ministry leaders gather for the Christian Community Development Association's national conference.  This year we're in Memphis for CCDA.    http://www.ccda.org/events/national-conferences In behalf of  Communities of Shalom,  a member organization, I am pleased to invite you to four events at CCDA in Memphis on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 11-12 th , 2015:   ·          Networking Lunch Session  for trainers ·          Practical Workshop  on   repurposing church buildings ·          Go and See  a Shalom Site in Memphis ·          Shalom Trai...

In preparing for the fourth training event for our Pastoral and Congregational Care Training (PACCT) program, I wrote this little dittie and emailed it to Gabriel, our Country Director: Mobilize the PACCT Committee Assemble all the troops PACCT IV is on the loose! Moira Chimombo is coming as is Dr. C. and his team* Dr. Gaston stands ready with angel Gabriel abeam March 10 is the date! But where shall we meet? How shall we proceed? And what shall we eat? At the end of the day when all is said and done, We finally will have the Program that shall not be undone. The day of training unfolded beautifully. The PACCT Committee decided to meet in the comfortable conference room of St. John of God hospital in Mzuzu. A total of 22 participants from the previous workshops arrived ready to do good and important work. Draft #1 of the PACCT Traning Manual was reviewed and revised page by page, section by section, to every one's satisfaction. Fascinating questions an...

Day Two by Paul Moore Jr. PACCT was excellent today and Moira was up and at ‘em – perhaps a little more intense than she normally is. She is a genius and such a wonderful woman of God. And it was great seeing the Malawians do their thing – the kids really respond to them. “Hippo in the Water” exercise went over especially good today. We’ll see how “Problem Tree” and “Snake in the Bathroom” do tomorrow. Blessings and Kevin (from Drew University) arrived by 1:00 pm and I had them join a panel discussion on the ABC’s of HIV/AIDS. Rev. Copeland is just the guy. He came to PACCT III today just to make sure his youth were doing well and contributing. So did a few other pastors. I did my whole “be a man” thing with the guys – they kept saying women needed to learn life skills to be able to say “no” to having sex with a boy. I went off on what about our job as men – as leaders – as warriors to STOP ASKING THEM – and to create a culture of men that honors, not uses, women. They ...

Increasingly, the church leadership in Malawi are reaching out to people with AIDS, both in their congregations and in the community at large, including prisons and orphan care centers--thanks in part of our Pastoral and Congregational Care Training (PACCT) program. In the photo above, a prisoner with AIDS is segregated from the other 150 inmates in a local Malawian prison I visited in March 2007. AIDS orphans and neglected prisoners with AIDS are two of the most vulnerable and needy groups of people with the virus in Malawi. When they are able to access ARV medical treatment, they can live with AIDS as a chronic disease. When they are prevented from receiving treatment, they die, sometimes alone. ‘AIDS as we know it is 25 years old! When I was a pastor in San Francisco in the early 1980’s, we began hearing about a strange new form of cancer among gay males in San Francisco and New York City. The medical establishment called it “GRID” (Gay-Related Immuno-Deficiency). By 1...

Increasingly, the church leadership in Malawi are reaching out to people with AIDS, both in their congregations and in the community at large, including prisons and orphan care centers--thanks in part of our Pastoral and Congregational Care Training (PACCT) program. In the photo above, a prisoner with AIDS is segregated from the other 150 inmates in a local Malawian prison I visited in March 2007. AIDS orphans and neglected prisoners with AIDS are two of the most vulnerable and needy groups of people with the virus in Malawi. When they are able to access ARV medical treatment, they can live with AIDS as a chronic disease. When they are prevented from receiving treatment, they die, sometimes alone. ‘AIDS as we know it is 25 years old! When I was a pastor in San Francisco in the early 1980’s, we began hearing about a strange new form of cancer among gay males in San Francisco and New York City. The medical establishment called it “GRID” (Gay-Related Immuno-Deficiency). By 1...

As the organizer and host of CitiHope's PACCT program, I offered the following Big Picture perspective on the Global AIDS Pandemic: AIDS as we know it is 25 years old. When I was a pastor in San Francisco in the early 1980’s, we began hearing about a strange new form of cancer among gay males in San Francisco and New York City. The medical establishment called it “GRID” (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency). By 1984, HIV was identified and the disease became known as AIDS. Patient Zero was identified and designated by the CDC as the first carrier of the deadly virus in America in 1981 and the disease spread rapidly among the homosexual community. Earlier stands of HIV and related viruses are now believed to have originated in Africa, first in monkeys and then in humans, and the original viruses continue to undergo transmutations as the disease evolves. In 1983, Malcolm, the first person I knew who was living with AIDS, came to my house church in San Francisco. Born and ra...