Irvine, Calif. – Over 100 California pastors recently attended a unique pastor empowerment summit called “Compassion in Your Neighborhood.” The summit was designed to equip church and ministry leaders to change lives and uplift their local communities.
The first-ever, day-long pastors’ summit was focused on spreading the word about new breakthrough ministry initiatives. The ultimate goal: To bring help and hope to disadvantaged communities nationwide.
Topics included:
The vital role of churches in addressing the homelessness crisis;
How church prison ministries can renew lives and reduce recidivism;
Leveraging corporate donations and goods-in-kind to supercharge church efforts to help the disadvantaged;
Insights on how churches can win government grants and contracts that better equip them to care for their communities.
The summit was sponsored by CityServe, a national church network dedicated to equipping local churches to bring hope and healing to their communities.
“The properly resourced local church has always been God’s primary instrument for transforming lives,” said opening speaker Pastor Wendell Vinson, CityServe’s co-founder and the senior pastor of Canyon Hills Assembly of God Church. “Sadly, here in America and around the world, it’s also the most underutilized. We want to change that. We want to see a church empowered and equipped to change the world for good.”
Other speakers included CityServe Senior Vice-President Todd Lamphere; Kevin Foster of LifeBridge Community Church; Will Gutierrez of The Garden Church; Eric EarHart of Upper Room Assembly and author of Emancipation Proclamation: A Prophetic Call to Set the Captives Free; and Brad Hoefs of Fresh Hope.
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