STATEMENT OF PURPOSEz z z z This is a well-rounded Community Development Training program with the purpose of enhancing the capacity and increasing the number of church-based organizations that restore hope and wholeness through spiritual, social, and economic vitality. Participating organizations receive training on how to plan, design, implement, and manage community outreach ministries (development programs) to improve housing, and economics conditions along with other qualities of life issues in their communities. PROVERBS· Choose my instruction instead of silver, knowledge rather than choice gold. (8:10) · Wise men store up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool invites ruin. (10:14) · The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge; the ears of the wise seek it out. (18:15) · It is not good to have zeal without knowledge, nor to be hasty and miss the way. (19:2) · Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge. (23:12) · A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength.(24:5)
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