PURPOSE

What is the purpose of the Intersection project?  You could be doing alot with three weeks.

Go go grandmas' house.  Work on that paper you have to make up.  You know big stuff.

What about come and see and participate in helping the world be changed?  Does that sound a bit grandiose? 
Well, then explain that to the kids whose future is changing every single day at the Salvation Army in Compton.  Tell that to people like... well, possibly you, who are the first of their family to go to college and that will have an economic impact for generations to come.  Those guys and girls are all over Compton and Laos Angeles.

The purpose is to affect change around you but mostly in you.

You will see, feel, hear, smell and taste things you never have before.  You will (probably) cry, certainly feel angry and definitely laugh hysterically.

This is an advanced level of Urban Ministry Leadership.  It won't be easy, but you won't want to leave.

Issues we will deal with include (but aren't limited to);

• evangelism
• discipleship
• God's heart for the poor
• poverty
• homelessness
  
• race relations
• racial reconciliation
• immigration
• justice
• advocacy
• urbanization
  
• "doing vs. being"
• intimacy with God
  
• leadership development/urban leadership development
• urban campus ministry
  
• decoding your city/campus
  
• team building
• the individuals' role/response
• the Churchs' role/response
• the Biblical response, and
  
• the experiences, questions and comments that YOU bring to the dialog!
  

in·ter·sec·tion

noun

1.  a point where lines intersect

2.  a junction where one street or road crosses another

3.  a point or set of points common to two or more geometric configurations

4.  the set of elements common to two or more sets; "the set of red hats is the intersection of the set of hats and the set of red things"

5.  a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena; "there was no overlap between their proposals" [syn: overlap]

6.  the act of intersecting (as joining by causing your path to intersect your target's path)

American Psychological Association (APA):

Intersection. (n.d.). WordNet® 2.1. Retrieved February 07, 2007, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Intersection