Shalom's Mission:
"Seek the welfare of the city…for in it’s shalom you will find your shalom.” (Jeremiah 29:7)
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.” (Matthew 5:9)
“Remember Abraham said, ‘O my Lord! Make this city one of peace and security.” (Qu’ran, Sura Abraham 14:35)
Our identity is as congregations and communities working together to create economically and ecologically sustainable communities in which all God’s people experience shalom in all its fullness.
Our mission is to engage congregations and communities to build a future together, re-weave the fabric of community life, and transform the world one community at a time:
Building the Future Together
The Communities of Shalom initiative is a grass-roots, faith-inspired, community development network in the USA and Africa
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-Focused on the creation of economically and ecologically sustainable communities of peace, hope, healing and wholeness in which all God’s people experience shalom.
·-Supporting local ministry teams as they discern what the Spirit of God is doing in a particular community, connect the dots, and participate in it.
Weaving a Single Garment of Destiny
The Shalom initiative equips congregations and residents to work together to reweave the fabric of community.
“…all of life is interrelated. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality; tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. As long as there is poverty in the world, no one can be totally rich…
Strangely enough, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way the world is made. I didn’t make it that way, but this is the interrelated structure of reality.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Transforming the World One Community at a Time
The Shalom Resource Center at Drew University provides on-going training, technical assistance, and relational support to registered communities of shalom.
ShalomZoneTraining equips local ministry teams in asset-based and collaborative approaches to systemic change, economic prosperity, healing and health, and sustainability.
Build Weave Transform
