This service will look at community outreach and development. We will be challenged to look past our own perceptions of people’s poverty and rather challenge ourselves to come in with a listening pose. What do we hear? What are people talking about? What do they value? This process gives us the ability to appreciate history, context, and culture. Instead of prescribing solutions, we position ourselves to identify agency, encouraging people on ways to exercise this agency and grow it. We are not the drivers, we are but fellow travelers. As we listen, we see the new avenues for expanding that potential. Joco Roets will be the speaker and Kriss Gang will be the service leader.

Topics: Civic Life, Community