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Six Duke Master of Divinity students were welcomed into five leading communities of practice during summer 2007. Read reflections from their journeys: Reflection: “Ask and it will be given to you…”
L’Arche Daybreak Community  Student Bethel Lee, right, hugs L’Arche Daybreak core member Carol Greg  Amey Victoria Adkins visits a park with a core member from the L’Arche Daybreak Community Founded in 1964 by Jean Vanier, L’Arche is an international federation of 130 communities in 30 countries for people with disabilities and assistants who share life, worship, meals, and daytime activities together in family-like settings that are integrated into local neighborhoods. The Duke partnership is with Daybreak, the oldest and largest L’Arche community in North America and home to a vibrant community of 100. Reflection: A Conversion to the City
Circle Urban Ministries & Rock of Our Salvation Church  Jonathan Carter and Ken Woods, both of Circle Urban Ministries, in prayer with student Nicholas Liao Circle/Rock has been serving as a witness to Christ in the Austin community (population 100,000) on Chicago's west side for nearly three decades. Their joint, intensely interracial ministry in one of the city's lowest-income communities sprawls across a city block and serves thousands each year. Rock Church, an Evangelical Free Church of America congregation, is strongly focused on interracial life and mission.
The Church of the Saviour  Julian Forth helps prepare food in the Potter's House, the local coffee shop and bookstore. For more than 50 years, this ecumenical Christian community in the diverse neighborhood of Adams-Morgan has birthed a network of organizations addressing issues of poverty and injustice. Each of their 12 small churches emphasize a commitment to an outward journey of mission and service and an inward journey of deepening one’s relationship with God through a disciplined life of prayer, scripture study, and committed Christian fellowship.
Reflection: Honeysuckle in the ’Hood
New Song Ministries & Church  Monique Williams singing with the Morning Worship Team for Sandtown Habitat for Humanity blitz week. Grounded in an interracial worshipping congregation, New Song concentrates on 15 blocks in the Sandtown-Winchester community of West Baltimore, which struggles with concentrated, enduring poverty. More than 80 staff, mostly from the surrounding neighborhood, live in the community and work together on efforts from New Song Academy (K-8 public school, 130 students) to over 200 houses completed via Sandtown Habitat for Humanity. Many different individuals—black and white, affluent and poor, urban and suburban—work closely together to break down barriers, including 10,000 annual volunteers. Reflection: Incarnational Ministry Voice of Calvary Ministries & Fellowship  Eric Vogt, right, at work during his internship at the John M. Perkins Foundation. Founded by African-American pastor-activist John Perkins (who serves on the Advisory Board of the Center and is a Teaching Communities supervisor), the 30-year old Voice of Calvary is the origin of a biblically-shaped “3 Rs” movement of “relocation, reconciliation, and redistribution” central to the vision of the highly influential Christian Community Development Association. In their neighborhood of west Jackson, a number of ministries and a church partner around a vision of a multi-racial, multi-class, family-friendly community.
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