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NEW!  Building a People of Power Series:

Explore what the Bible says about the poor.  Learn strategies of Biblical community organizing.  Discover how your city’s systems use their power to either empower or exploit the poor.  This step-by-step program will help you understand why the world is the way it is and what God’s people can do to change it.  

 The Building a People of Power DVD series can be used in its entirety with the Building a People of Power book or as individual mini-courses.  One workbook is included with each DVD set; additional workbooks are available.  Each course includes class sessions, clips relating success stories and interviews of church leaders and urban workers.

DVD SET  1

The World as God Intended

What are God’s intentions for our world?  In these sessions, Dr. Linthicum leads the class to do their own biblical reflection, revealing God’s comprehensive vision for the world He created and a biblical examination of what keeps going wrong.

5 Sessions     Introductory Price:  $45

DVD SET  2

What Did Jesus Really Come to Do?

Why not let the Bible speak for itself?  In this course, Dr. Linthicum and the class explore Jesus’ own statements found in the four gospels about what He was seeking to accomplish and what that has to do with our salvation. 

     4 Sessions    Price:  $55

 

DVD SET  3

Building a Church of Power

This set examines the Bible’s mission call to God’s people, biblical instructions on how to live out that call in everyday life, and how God’s people are to build and use relational power as the specific means to carry out our mission.         

     6 Sessions    Price:  $75

 

DVD SET  4  

Building Relational Power in Your Community

Mike Miller from ORGANIZE Training Center and Marilyn Stranske of Christians Supporting Community Organizing join Dr. Linthicum in teaching concrete strategies that the church can use to transform its community. 

     4 Sessions    Price:  $55

 

DVD SET  5  

Using Power to Turn Your City Upside Down

Dr. Linthicum presents practical methods and tactics of relational power used by Jesus, Moses, and Paul the Apostle.  Mike Miller demonstrates these strategies in a dynamic role-play in which God’s people hold a slum landlord accountable!

     5 Sessions    Price:  $65

 

DVD SET  6  

How to Develop Powerful Leaders & Build Values

To transform a community, a church must form strong leaders and motivate the community to build a new set of values.  Dr. Linthicum and Marilyn Stranske teach how to accomplish these tasks, as well as explore the spirituality of relational power! 

     3 Sessions    Price:  $45

 

Purchase the entire Building a People of Power series!

Includes all six  DVD sets (27 sessions), workbooks and Building a People of Power book

Building a People of Power Full Set:   $300.00

Additional workbooks   Price:  $8.00

 

 

FULL-LENGTH CURRICULA FOR EXTENDED STUDY

Note:  Purchasing full-length curricula includes the right to unlimited use and reproduction for church and classroom purposes only. 

 

Introduction to Community Organizing

Price:  $100.00

Electronic Version:  $85.00

 

 

10 Sessions - 3 hrs each

A Biblical Introduction to Community Organizing:  How to Make a Difference

Robert Linthicum

30 hours

One of the most profound and comprehensive analyses of power is found in the Bible.  It is an understanding superior to any secular study undertaken today.  This course initiates a thorough study of a biblical theology of power that includes introduction to the principles and essential strategies of community and broad-based organizing.  In doing so, the course uses the Bible to understand how power works in the worlds of politics, business, education, social services and institutionalized religion, and how the people can organize to guarantee that their priorities and values are taken seriously by those institutions. 

Advanced Community Organizing

Price: $100.00  

Electronic Version:  $85.00

 

10 Sessions - 3 hrs each

 

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Advanced Community Organizing: Building People-Power, Leaders and Community:

Robert Linthicum

30 hours

This course continues where “How to Make A Difference” ends.  It teaches concretely and practically how the people of God can undertake power ministries in order to work effectively for the empowerment of the poor and of the church.  Central to this course is the development of the skills of the students in three areas of community organizing: 1) tactics for organizing for successful action; 2) building strong community leaders; and 3) creating a sense of community in a neighborhood or city that will unite the people under a common vision, values and spirit. 

This course assumes that the students have previously taken “How to Make A Difference” and builds its study upon that premise.