Final Session Aims:

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Final Session Aims Summary of our stream
Reminder of the hope we can be Evaluations
completed Leave feeling encouraged and
challenged
1 hour 15 mins
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What about possible?
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What 1 thing will be different because of this
week?
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Planning or evaluation - MIMOO MotivationsInputs
MethodsOutputsOutcomes
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Compassion / Social Justice
When I give to the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call
me a communist. Brazillian Archbishop Dom Helder
Camara
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• Nature of the Kingdom as a Community
• People are safe - Luke 2346
• People are accepted - Matthew 317
• Both unity and diversity are respected - Acts
  1034-35
• All are special - none are expendable - 2 Peter
  39
• Each one can participate in decisions - John
  1623-24
• There is a commitment to doing justice to
  disadvantaged people, both locally and globally -
  Matthre 545

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Hopelessness
Circle of influence
Circle of influence
Circle of concern
Stephen Covey (1989)
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UK poverty
material
relational
identity
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What 1 thing will be different because of this
week?
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Isaiah 58 9-12"If you get rid of unfair
practices, quit blaming victims, quit
gossiping about other people's sins, If you are
generous with the hungry and start giving
yourselves to the down-and-out, Your lives will
begin to glow in the darkness, your shadowed
lives will be bathed in sunlight. I will always
show you where to go. I'll give you a full
life in the emptiest of places firm muscles,
strong bones. You'll be like a well-watered
garden, a gurgling spring that never runs
dry. You'll use the old rubble of past lives to
build anew, rebuild the foundations from out of
your past. You'll be known as those who can fix
anything, restore old ruins, rebuild and
renovate, make the community livable again.
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We wont let depressing statistics have the
final word We wont waste energy denying there
are problems but will use it to find a
solution. We wont look for approval for
absolutely everything we do - as we wont get
it. We will see ourselves as others do - our
strengths as well as our weaknesses. We will
learn from the past, set our sights on the
future, but live in the present. We will search
for Gods song and put love in our life where
fear used to be.
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the people
I cannot change, the courage to change the one I
can, and the wisdom to know it's me. Amen
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