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Explore opportunities for community service through DBA churches. Both short and longer-term project available.

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 Yes!  Our church will be a CityServe congregation in 2010.

Getting Started in Christian Community Development

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"The needs in our church's community are overwhelming.  Where do we begin?"    God placed your church in your community for a Kingdom purpose.  He's given spiritual gifts, aptitudes, and resources to your church members to fulfill that purpose.  The DBA community ministries team can help your church as you minister in your neighborhood.

Request a community development consultation.

Learn more about community assessments

 

Coming September 15, 2010
Texas Multihousing Conference
Most Americans live in multi-family housing communities. According to the North American Mission Board, 95 percent of multihousing residents have no church involvement.

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Building Missional Thinking in a New Generation
This conference focuses on student involvement in urban and community ministry, with guest keynote speaker Bart Campolo. Bart is the leader of The Walnut Hills Fellowship, a local ministry in inner-city Cincinnati. He is also founder of Mission Year, a Christian ministry which recruits committed young adults to live and work among the poor in inner-city neighborhoods.

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Ministry to Dallas' Refugee Communities
Families arriving in Dallas every week need friends and help with assimilation.
Noble Hurley Homeless Ministry Network
Grants available to churches and Christian organizations serving homeless men, women and children.

Click here for more information

Texas Baptist Offering for World Hunger Report

Monthly report for churches receiving associational hunger relief funding through the Texas Baptist Offering for World Hunger.
Church-based and Christian community resources
Need Help?

Dallas Baptist Association churches and other Christian organizations provide ministry for hurting people. 

View the interactive community ministries Map and more information about family ministries including addiction recovery, hunger relief, job readiness, literacy, and more.

For a list of community-based services in Dallas County, click here: community-based services.  (Please note that these services are not affiliated with DBA and may not be Christian.  This link is provided only as an information resource, not an endorsement.)    

For pastors, staff, and other church leaders
Online Seminar: Addictions and Your Church

On Friday, September 24 at 10:00 a.m., log on to www.texasbaptists.org to participate in a live online seminar about how the church can help people in their congregations who are struggling with addictions. 

Panelists include Carrie Beaird, LPC, LCDC (Christian Life Commission), Dr. Heath Marion (Pastor, The Oaks Baptist Church), and Jana Jackson (Dallas Baptist Association).  Participants can submit questions online via the Addictions Ministry Education Network facebook page.

For more information, contact Carrie Beaird at cbcounseling@aol.com. 

Download substance abuse ministry podcasts

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ESL, Family Literacy, and Adult Basic Education
Church-Based Literacy Ministries

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Classes in English-as-a-second language and adult reading and writing are offered at many of our Dallas Baptist Association churches, and more are needed. 

DBA can connect you to training and resources to help churches share Christ as they meet this need in our communities.

Dallas Christian Women's Job Corps

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Dallas Christian Women's Job Corps and Christian Women's Job Corps--Grand Prairie prepare women for meaningful work by providing classroom instruction and mentors. 

New Creation Bible Church's Hope Coalition is the newest Christian Women's Job Corps ministry in Dallas.  They recently graduated their first class.

 

Christian Men's Job Corps

On July 13, Hope Coalition will begin its Christian Men's Job Corps ministry. Thirteen men are enrolled in the ministry's job readiness classes which will meet on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings.  The ministry's director is James McGlover, a member of New Creation Bible Church.  Brother McGlover is a semi-retired small business owner and serves as the church's administrator.  Men interested in volunteering with the ministry may call Bro. McGlover at 214-328-9187.  Mentors are especially needed.

Gladys Moore Mission Offering
Family or Community Ministry Grant

Funds from the Gladys Moore Mission Offering are available to qualifying DBA churches to assist with the development of family and community ministries.  A church must be a cooperating member of the association demonstrated by  an established pattern of giving and having furnished an annual report (ACP) for the previous year. 

A community of people living with mental illness

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