Walking Alongside is a rich resource of materials to help you begin, strengthen or sustain the community ministries of your congregation.

Workshops and Trainings
Walking Alongside: Addressing Poverty in Community Ministries is a training event and workshop offered every fall that introduces church leaders to resources that have been prepared to help congregations engage in new ministries. Churches have the opportunity to plan how to establish or improve their ministries for community transformation. In addition, the Center for Family and Community Ministries hosts workshops throughout the year on a variety of subjects relevant to churches. In the past workshops topics have included benevolence, domestic violence, and grief and loss.

Curriculum
The Walking Alongside curriculum is part of an umbrella of resources available to congregations as they seek to begin, strengthen and sustain community ministries. These three sets of lessons offer study materials on systems of care throughout history and how these influence us today, biblical foundations for holistic ministry, and poverty and the assumptions people often make about people living in poverty.

Interns
School of Social Work undergraduate and graduate students who have identified working with congregations as their specific calling are involved in research, writing curriculum and other resource materials and in presentations at churches and professional conferences. Students have also engaged in semester-long field internships in specific churches, joining in existing or beginning new community ministry projects.

Urban Ministries Class
As part of the Strengthening Congregational Community Ministries grant, Dr. Gaynor Yancey, Professor of Church and Community with the School of Social Work, teaches the Urban Ministry Class as an elective in the fall semester at George W. Truett Theological Seminary.

Resources
This series of resources offers help to churches wanting to learn how to start a new ministry, find more resources about a ministry, read the story of a church doing that type of ministry, or have a devotional about the ministry area. These resources are available for a number of ministry areas including advocacy, at-risk youth, employment, immigration, literacy and older adults.