Author Archive for Brian Kammerzelt

TJL Building Blocks

The technical, tactical, and practical of The Just Life ministry encompasses five interconnected “change agent” engagement strategies; each with their own part to play in a holistic vision for transformational justice ministry:

These building blocks are Justice Initiatives, Professional Fellowships, Social Entrepreneurs, Community Development, and Advocacy.   More information can be discovered by exploring the categories [...]

Social Capital Mapping

“Social capital mapping” is simply a formal way of stating the importance listening to and learning from your community, being proactive about discovering and making connections, and building/developing community – door by door, family by family, name by name.  This also entails identifying existing ministries in your church and in the same neighborhood as your [...]

TJL Initiative Development

Before you begin you should review The Justice Continuum explanation: http://thejustlife.org/home/2009/10/21/the-justice-continuum
Think of the following as a sample worksheet.  Break out some paper and pens and start with these basic steps…
Step 1:  Simply begin
What justice issue do you feel God has called you to engage?  The fist step is to simply begin – to put a [...]

The Justice Continuum

Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
~ Matthew 22:37-39

The Justice Continuum: Compassion, Development, Structural Change
“The Justice Continuum” is a guide through the [...]

Professional Fellowships

A fundamental development goal for The Just Life community is the creation of profession based “fellowships” within local communities in order to work through how to use specific gifts and callings to live a life of love and justice.  In an effort to facilitate those discussions, provide a collaborative space, and generate a knowledge bank [...]

Next gathering: August 20th

As a reminder we gather again next Thursday, August 20th, at 7pm in Park Café.  Be there as we move forward together as community committed to God’s call for love and justice from His people.

Social Enterprise Launch: AArrow Ads

I am excited to say that we are moving forward with our vision to create community development opportunities through social entrepreneurialism.
Our goals have been three fold: to identify key needs through partner organizations such as GRIP and By the Hand; identify potential business models that may create next steps for the kids we are building [...]

New site features!

New site features!

Regular visitors will notice some changes to the navigation above. The biggest change is the addition of a “news feed.” The feed is drawing in news content from all over the web that is relevant to the Biblical Justice conversation — this information will be filtered into the appropriate categories.  That means new content [...]

FBI, police rescue child prostitutes around U.S.

FBI, police rescue child prostitutes around U.S.Sweep picks up dozens of teens; more than 571 suspects arrested
WASHINGTON – The FBI has rescued 48 suspected teenage prostitutes, some as young as 13, in a nationwide sweep to remove kids from the illegal sex trade and punish their accused pimps.
Over a three-night initiative called Operation Cross Country, [...]

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