CCDA strengthens and inspires Christian Community Development practitioners for community transformation. We want to see our communities flourish with Christians (w)holistically engaged.
2026 National Conference About CCDA’s National Conference Christian Community Development Association’s annual conference has been inspiring, training, and connecting CCD practitioners for close to 40 years. Join us in Richmond, Virginia, from October 7-10, 2026, for amazing speakers, workshops, worship, networking sessions, and mor e!
Rather, CCDA pioneer, Dr. John Perkins, first developed this philosophy while working with his neighbors in Mississippi. The first three CCD philosophy components were based on John Perkins’ original “three R’s” of community development: relocation, reconciliation, and redistribution.
by soverpeck on CCDA 2026 Conference Theme: Behold Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:19 ESV Behold is an awakening, a holy invitation to pause, to look, and to truly perceive what God is stirring in our communities.
This year, CCDA has partnered with PAX to craft this Holy Week devotional guide. Let’s join together as one family as we seek to follow the crucified and resurrected One for the good of the world.
Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) is a network of Christians committed to seeing people and communities experience God’s shalom. We believe that God wants to restore a right relationship between us, our families and our communities – spiritually, emotionally, physically, economically and socially.
At CCDA, we want to see wholistically restored communities with Christians fully engaged in the process of transformation. We do this through inspiring, training, and connecting Christians who seek to bear witness to the Kingdom of God by reclaiming and restoring under-resourced communities.