This document summarizes objectives and topics discussed at a meeting of Shalom Zone coordinators in Macon, Georgia. The meeting aimed to: 1) introduce the Shalom Zone model of asset-based community development; 2) identify strengths and goals within each zone; and 3) discover shared priorities. Attendees learned about building community through collaboration, focusing on assets rather than deficiencies, and connecting resources to local issues. They also discussed the meaning of "Shalom" and applying its principles of well-being, health and prosperity within their neighborhoods.

2. Travis Blackwell,
Community Partnership
Carolyn Glover,
Shalom Zone Coordinator
Group Introduction
Name 1 little known fact about yourself

3. SERIES OBJECTIVES:
Relationship and Resource Building In
Macon’s Shalom Zones
• Become Familiar with Shalom Zone
Model and Asset-based Community
Development
• Discover and Build the Assets in People
• Understand the Poverty Environment
and the Causes of Poverty In Your
Shalom Zone
• Grow and Strengthen your Shalom
Zone team!

4. TODAY’S OBJECTIVES:
Relationship and Resource Building In
Macon’s Shalom Zones
• Understand Shalom Zones and ABCD
• Identify:
Where You Are Now
Where You Want To Be
• Discover Common Priorities Among
Shalom Zones
• Share News From Shalom Zones

5. Welcome MOWD Mobile Lab!
Sheknita Davis,
Adult/Dislocated Worker Coordinator,
MOWD

7. • Communities of Shalom seeks to build
community, weave unity, and transform
the world one community at a time.
• Shalom teams engage congregations
and communities to build a future of
hope and peace together through multi-
cultural, multi-faith, collaboration and
asset-based community development

8. • Renewing the spirit of God in communities
and congregations
• Developing the prosperity and economies of
communities
• Strengthening relationships among neighbors
• Improving community health care and
coordination of services

9. WHAT DOES SHALOM MEAN?
Shalom, as employed by the prophets, has
many threads of meaning: health, healing,
harmony, welfare, wholeness, and well-
being.
This rich fabric can be missed when we
simply translate the Hebrew word as
‘peace’.

10. “Seek the shalom of the city
where I have sent you, for in its
shalom, you will find your
shalom.”
Jeremiah 29:7

11. 1. Discuss at your table where you
see yourself in the scripture
2. Write your observations on a
Learning piece of paper
Task #1 3. Share one or two observations
from your table with the group

13. • Focusing on Strengths, Not Deficiencies
• Solving Community Issues by Connecting
the Dots
• Building Resources and Creating New
Opportunities
• Glass Half-Full

14. Inside Every Need Is An Asset
(From The Power of Asset Mapping, Luther Snow)
• Needs point to things we care about
• When we say we need something, we are trying to
strengthen or protect something we care about
• The thing we care about is an asset
• Saying that we need something points us to something
we already have and value
• The asset is not the thing we lack; the asset is the thing
we want to protect

15. 1. Discuss at your table some
needs in your Shalom Zone
2. Choose one need, write it
Learning down
3. Write the thing you care
Task #2 about, the thing this need
points to

20. 1. See handout
2. Discuss where your
Learning neighborhood is now
3. Identify where you would like
Task #3 it to be

22. 1. Get a flip chart sheet
2. Write the name of your
Shalom Zone at the top
3. Draw a picture of prosperity in
Learning your
Task #4 4. Words can only be used to
describe pictures

23. Mark the elements on your
drawing with a color-coded dot
Light Blue= Education
Learning Green= Green space
Task #5 Orange = Housing
Red = Safety
Dark Blue = Health

25. Next meeting date and
location:
February 18th
Which Shalom Zone
Can Host?

26. Upcoming Event:
5 X 5 Event on February 11,
Houston Road area

27. Thank You
for Your Participation!