An End of Fiscal Year Update
The short-term goal across the Ormond Center’s programs and processes is to successfully engage 20 congregations with community-oriented projects during the 2022-2023 academic year. Ormond is on pace to exceed this goal.
Currently, during the first quarter of the 2022-2023 academic year, the Center has engaged in 15 projects involving 17 North Carolina congregations.
The Pathways Towards Impact process engages four of these congregations. Three are in Harnett County: Kipling United Methodist Church, Norrington AME Zion Church, and Mount Pisgah Harnett Church; and the fourth is Purpose Church International in Wilmington, NC.
Our Academy of Teaching Training and Learning (ATTL) programs, Community Craft Collaborative and the Placemaking Lab, have engaged 13 congregations. Specifically, seven congregations participated in the Durham/Chapel Hill CCC cohort (City Well UMC, Chapel Hill Bible Church, Cole Mill Road COC, Mount Level Missionary Baptist Church, Nehemiah Church COGIC, and Wings of Eagles Christian Church); and they continue to engage in peer dialogue through an Ormond developed facebook site. Furthermore, Shalom Fellow TJ Bryant Jr’s proposal, recommending one of the Community Craft Collaborative congregations, Cole Mill Road Church of Christ, continue with us through Pathways Towards Impact, has been accepted. The congregational leaders are currently on a journey with the Ormond Center, as we alpha test a placemaking concept at the intersection of culture.
Six additional ATTL congregations are currently participating in the Placemaking Lab program. These North Carolina Churches are All Saints Episcopal Church of Warrenton; First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro; Central United Methodist Church of Asheville; First Presbyterian Church of Kinston; Holy Spirit Episcopal Church of Greensboro; and Macedonia United Methodist Church of Cary.
We are expected to add at least five more congregations towards the end of March, as we move our Community Craft Collaborative curriculum into Virginia, activating agents of shalom there. Thus, a total of 22 congregations are expected to join us in becoming agents of shalom this fiscal year, deploying innovation for impact creation.
