Every Wednesday at 9am

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Churches Care - DFW Launch Event

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Slide deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FsHBVryb22qQ3kWwoupTo8nARO5nNjHYAQy3XhIwaos/edit?usp=sharing

Recording: https://vimeo.com/479132457/3de0afcf7a

The Church is normally decades behind society in terms of innovation. That's not the case right now. The data and technology that's available to the social sector in DFW through the Church is impressive. DFW's brightest social sector leaders agree.

We need to dive deeper into the kinds of data we have at our fingertips. We'll each take the next step towards using this information and technology to help us accomplish our goals as churches and nonprofits.

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Last week we talked about the Metro-wide communication efforts that we're kicking off and the role of churches, nonprofits, schools, and businesses could play. Participants shared their #1 objective, and today we're going to talk about your best next step. Thousands of community members want to help. Thousands need help. The only way we can connect the two groups is by using a "platform" model -- think Uber or Airbnb.

We can do this together...one step at a time.

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How do we connect thousands of people who need help to available resources? Those who want to help to the places they're needed most? These are the questions we talked about during our workshop today. We want to engage young adults and seniors because helping a neighbor is extremely beneficial to their own mental health.​ 

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What are your biggest challenges right now as a church, nonprofit, or coalition leader? Are some things stabilizing? Is anything new popping up?

Now that we've covered nearly all the major social issues made worse by COVID on our weekly Zoom calls, let's take a step back this morning and figure out where we need to go from here. 

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If you're in contact with a church or community member in danger of falling behind on rent or mortgage payments, listen to hear about current processes and available relief to help us protect our community from a devastating wave of homelessness.

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We discussed how churches, businesses, and individuals can support our public schools. Whether or not you already have a relationship with a school, we can make it easy to release your people to serve teachers or families, virtually or in-person, with time or with money.

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Featuring Judge Jenkins, on what can the Church do to help slow the spread of COVID in order to protect our healthcare workers and vulnerable populations.

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Featuring Kim Moeller, manager at Gloo who will show us the results of the current "Faith & Race" and COVID-related Check-Ins and see early national results.

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Featuring Byron Sanders, Executive Director of BigThought to discuss how Christians can serve our most vulnerable communities this summer to address both racial inequities and quarantine learning loss.

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Featuring the City of Dallas' COVID Czar, Dr. Kelvin Baggett. He will speak about the alignment of the Church and city government is critical, and wants to ask for our help. Also joining us will be The Art of Neighboring co-author, Dave Runyon, who will help us think through neighboring in this time of COVID and racial unrest.

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Featuring Eric Swanson, co-author of To Transform a City, Unite's unofficial "handbook" for city transformation. This is a special edition of our weekly Zoom that you have to hear.

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​Featuring Pastor ​Markus Lloyd​ again, who will help us grasp how COVID-19 is causing underlying racial disparities to surface in DFW. Markus is Director of External Focus at Woodcreek Church and Executive Director of Threaded, an organization focused on relationship, reconciliation, and collaboration.

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Featuring Pastor ​Markus Lloyd​, who will help us grasp how COVID-19 is causing underlying racial disparities to surface in DFW. Markus is Director of External Focus at Woodcreek Church and Executive Director of Threaded, an organization focused on relationship, reconciliation, and collaboration.

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Featuring Dr. Jeff Fray who will share with us what members are saying about returning to church. We'll then discuss health concerns involved in the decision to re-open churches, nonprofits, and schools and how we might be able to work together to do so safely.

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Featuring Jodi Newman, School Age Services Executive Director for YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas who will share the plan for providing summer childcare to our essential workers.

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Featuring Thrivent Financial's Community Engagement Lead Lindsey Humbert who shares about some creative ways we can all give of our time and finances in this uncertain time.

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Featuring Anna Blake, the new Director of Faith-Based and Community Engagement for the Texas Department of Family & Protective Services who will share how COVID is impacting cases of abuse and neglect, how it's impacting the processes of fostering, adopting, and terrifying, and how the Church can help.

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Featuring Alison Reese, Executive Director of Souper Bowl of Caring shares unique insight into the current food crisis and what we can do to help.

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Featuring Mark Grace, Chief Mission & Ministry Officer at Baylor Scott & White who will share what it's like on the front line from the healthcare chaplaincy perspective.

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