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The
Just Neighbors Program
We created the
Just Neighbors
multimedia curriculum
to raise awareness of the root causes of poverty and homelessness as the
first step in establishing community-based responses. The
Just
Neighbors program includes nine interactive multi-media sessions. It
is designed as a series but has a flexible structure that you can adapt
to meet your congregation’s needs and interests.
Flexible
Format to Meet Your Needs
Each session is designed so that
a group can complete it in one hour. Depending on your purposes, your group
may decide to complete the entire program or any number of individual sessions—even
only one.
Eight
Ways to Use Just Neighbors — and More
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Use Just Neighbors as a
series, running each session in succession. |
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Have an education class adopt Just
Neighbors as its curriculum for weekly meetings over the course of
two months, or use one session each month for nine months. |
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Use a Just Neighbors session
before or after worship to tie in with a sermon or a liturgical season,
such as Passover, Lent, or Advent. |
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Offer sessions of particular interest
leading up to a service activity. For example, if you will be working on
a Habitat for Humanity house or staffing a homeless shelter, use the session
“Housing Matters” to make participants more attuned to the needs of those
they are serving. |
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Select one session as a springboard
for more in-depth study and action. For example, if your congregation is
beginning an initiative for interracial dialogue, the “Prejudice, Privilege,
and Poverty” session is a logical starting point. |
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Adapt Just Neighbors for
your youth program, either with the youth group, or young people preparing
for their confirmation or bar or bat mitzvah. |
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Team up with another congregation
in the area and participate in Just Neighbors together. |
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Organize a Just Neighbors
retreat and complete all nine sessions over the course of a weekend. |
And more—we’re sure that you will come
up with other ways to use Just Neighbors to benefit your congregation.
When you do, please let us know about them so that we can pass them on
to others.
The Just Neighbors Video
We have prepared an informative five-minute video that takes you on a tour of the Just Neighbors program and shows how you can use it to motivate and inspire your congregation or other group.
[YOU CAN VIEW OR DOWNLOAD IT HERE]
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