Resurrection Downtown Community Missions Committee

Transforming the Heart of the City: Tithing our Time, Talent and Treasure

Mission

To encourage discipleship, and develop fully-involved participants and leaders who will live into and bear witness to God's Kingdom of kindness, mercy, and justice through local, regional, and global community immersion, using an Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) approach - the sustainabledevelopmentof communities basedon their strengths and potentials.

Vision

The pursuit of a new Kansas City community that values gifts, generosity, hopes, aspirations and possibilities over needs and problems through building capacity with people who are vulnerable and marginalized, people at centers of power, and all people in between to experience God’s Kingdom on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Purpose

To make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world in Kansas City by leading and managing accessible, mutually transformative, and sustainable community mission experiences with community partners.

Focus

Both inward and outward transformation for people who partner with RezDt as residents or visitors of downtown Kansas City. A unique emphasis on valuing the voices of the vulnerable and marginalized to, prophetically and pastorally, enlighten the community through associational relationships. These are borne out of an individual or small group’s transformative relationships that create institutional partnerships to facilitate the formation of more mutually transformative individual relationships.

Methodology

Partnership

Community Missions are carried out through 5 main pathways, which provide a variety of ways for participants to become and stay involved:

1) FaithWork,

2) Special Projects,

3) Community Events,

4) National and Int’l Missions Trips, and

5) Financial Grants.

Asset Based Community Development (ABCD)

The focus of ABCD is primarily on honing and leveraging existing strengths within a community rather than bolstering community deficiencies. Related to views of empowerment, it proposes that solutions to community problems already exist within a community’s assets. Principles that guide ABCD include:

  1. Everyone has gifts: each person in a community has something to contribute
  2. Relationships build a community: people must be connected in order for sustainable community development to take place
  3. Citizens at the center: citizens should be viewed as an active participant—not recipients—in development
  4. Leaders involve others: community development is strongest when it involves a broad base of community action
  5. People care: challenge notions of "apathy" by listening to people's interests
  6. Listen: decisions should come from conversations where people are heard

7. Ask: asking for ideas is more sustainable than giving solutions

Community Missions Committee

The Community Missions Committee,under the direction of the Community Pastor, has been established to coordinate wide-ranging Community Missions opportunities at RezDT. The committee is made up of a Committee Chairperson, Community Partner Liaisons, and a handful of Special Projects leaders. Together this committee learns from one another, collaborates using the ABCD strategy and guides associational opportunities with our Community Partners.

  • Community Pastor and Mission Committee Chairperson
  • FaithWork Coordinator
  • Projects, Events and Mission Trip Coordinators
  • Communications Coordinator
  • Partner Organizations
  • Partner Liaisons

Faithwork Coordinator

FaithWork is a monthly service event that provides pre-planned opportunities with our Partner Organizations that extend the walls of the church to gracefully honor the community and those participating in God’s work all around us. Participants meet at Resurrection Downtown at 9AM on the third Saturday of the month for a short introduction and then are sent out to serve at our partner organizations. All ages, skill sets, faiths and non-faiths are welcome to participate. Our hope is that participants build relationships with each other and God through service.

Projects, Events and Mission Trip Coordinators

Special Projects are a means to connect on a deeper level with our Community Partners, our neighbors and others. Community Missions presently supports the RezDT All-City Easter Egg Hunt, Christmas In October projects, COR’s Bless The School project, Healing House Construction and Winterization, and a variety of projects with our partner school, Wendell Phillips at Attucks Elementary. These projects are led either by an existing liaison, or a special project director.

Community Events, such as Thanksgiving Dinner at Healing House, are offered in order to provide a more casual means to meet our neighbors where they live.

National and International Missions Trips are available throughout the year and are intended to help our members grow in discipleship by experiencing a foreign culture in a serving and learning environment.

Communications Coordinator

To integrate the most relevant forms of communication to effectively and efficiently engage with community members, church members and Kansas City in an effort to drive the mission and vision of Resurrection Downtown Community Missions.

Partner Organizations

Mission organizations are voted in as a community partner by the RezDT Community Missions Committee, under the direction of the Community Pastor. These organizations meet the following criteria:

a) Located in the Downtown Kansas City area;

b) Have a clear mission and vision to serve the poor, the oppressed, and the marginalized;

c) Provide a liaison, connected to Resurrection Downtown, who will represent and honor the organization as a member of the Community Missions Committee;

d) Be committed to the mission and vision of Resurrection Downtown; and

e) Remain in regular communication with the mission partner, with an eye toward building a long-term sustainable relationship.

Community Missions Committee (Continued)

Partner Liaison

A liaison serves as primary contact between the partner organizations and all affiliated with the RezDT Community Missions Committee.

Responsibilities

General/Communications

  1. Continuously pray for your Partner Organization
  2. Attend quarterly Missions Committee meetings at RezDT
  3. Schedule and attend in person annual meeting between Liaison and Partner. Include Community Pastor and/or Community Chair.

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  • Update contact information
  • Mutually evaluate partnership
  • Discuss future needs/plans
  • Review funding guidelines
  • Set tentative FW dates for year
  • Determine how else we can help
  • Build relationships

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  1. Every two months, check in with Partner through meeting for coffee, a phone call or email.
  2. Confirm upcoming FW dates, times, projects, number of volunteers and supplies needed
  3. Ask for update from Partner, ask how we can be praying for them
  4. Build relationships
  5. Provide a summary through email to the FaithWork coordinator who will pass on information to Community Pastor and Community Chair if needed
  6. First week of every month, send Communications Coordinator information about partners’ independent service and/or fundraising events. (No capital campaign)
  7. Bring hopes and aspirations of organization to Community Pastor and Mission Committee Chairperson for Special Project consideration, when applicable.
  8. Ensure you have access to Partner’s communications like Facebook, newsletters, emails, etc.
  9. Ensure Partner has access to all RezDT communications including Facebook page and monthly newsletter
  10. Send handwritten Christmas card written during November Team meeting
  11. If you have any questions or concerns, contact Community Pastor or Chair

FaithWorks

  1. Work with Coordinator in November to project “work days” for the following year with your partner.
  2. Four weeks in advance of FW event provide FaithWorks coordinator with project definition, number of participants needed, supply list, and who will be providing what supplies.
  • Coordinate supply purchase two weeks out
  • Be prepared to share the Partner’s mission statement and brief overview of project and number of participants needed with FW attendees
  • Lead participants to Partner location
  • Ensure Partner gives tour/overview during the project
  • Provide summary of event to FaithWorks Coordinator within one week of event including number of participants, how did it go, inspiring stories or comments, pictures.

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Community Missions Committee (Continued)

Liaison Financial Procedures

  1. Presently, each Community Partner is served 3 – 4 times a year via FaithWork. With each FaithWork visit, $100 is available to purchase supplies with a limit of $500 over the course of the year. If more than $100 per FaithWork is required, the Liaison must bring the request to the Community Pastor and Missions Committee Chair, for approval 2 weeks ahead of the Faithwork date. Requests larger than $500 will be presented to the Missions Committee for a vote.
  2. If you are unable for any reason to purchase supplies, please inform FaithWork Coordinator within two week of project. Coordinator will work with Community Pastor and Chair to fulfill the needs.
  3. All reimbursement expense requests must be accompanied with an original itemized purchase receipt, your name and mailing address. Donation receipts are not accepted. The actual items purchased must be documented for auditing reasons.
  4. Reimbursements will be in form of a check sent to purchasers’ address within one month of turning in receipt.
  5. Financial Grants: If funding above $500 is required by one of our Community Partners, the Liaison must bring the request to the Community Pastor and Missions Committee Chair, who will then present the request to the Missions Committee for a vote.
  6. COR Grants: The first $100,000 from the COR Easter offering will fund grants to organizations that are changing the lives in the Kansas City community.

Missions Committee MembersBy First Name

AmberCarlsonHonduras Team

AnneSobbaSheffield Place

Bob & ClaudiaLagerstronChristmas In

ClaireJepsonWP@A Elementary

DanSmithHealing House

Debbie BosmaHealing House Liaison

DonnaWilsonReStart

EllenPantaeniusDon Bosco

Emily MahnkenFaithwork,

Eric CoxFaithwork Lunch

Erin McGonigleCommunity LINC

GinnaBeckettSpecial Projects,

HannahMurrayMatthews

JamieThaemertBedroll

JanBurchettWP@A Elementary

JayTimmermanState Street Project (potential partner)

JeanneJohnsonKC Common Table

Reconciliation

JennyHorkmanRose Brooks

JimHamiltonSpecial

JimJohnsonSpecial

JohnBeckettSpecial

JoryMickWP@A Elementary

JoshSmithBless the School, Computer

JoySnyderKC Common

Karla CoxFaithwork Lunch

KimLocklearUpper Room

LindsayHowlettLocal Medical Mission

MarkGodfreyCrossroads Academy

MattLirleyKC Rescue Mission

MicahSilkwoodCompassion International

MichelleSmithCommunications Director/Zoe

Mindy Williford NelsonConstruction Phase

MelanieTimmermanState Street Project (potential)

NadineFarrisWest Paseo Garden

KC Common Table Café

PatrickMcLaughlinCommunity Pastor,

RodBosmaHealing House

SarahBrischleZoe

ShalinnSilkwoodCompassion

ShawnStogsdillSpecial

SherreeGormanWP@A Elementary Blue Springs

TerriFriebohleUrban Christian

Tom BurchettLazarus Ministries

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