DART National Training
(NOTE: Most expenses for these events are covered for qualifying persons in CLOUT member congregations. If you are a member of your congregation’s Justice Ministry Network and are interested in applying to attend a DART training event, contact the CLOUT office.)

National 5-day Training:

July 21-24, 2010, Lake Yale, Florida
This training is designed for local leaders from DART-affiliated organizations who are interested in going beyond local training sessions to practice skills for continuing to build a powerful, grassroots, multi-issued, congregation-based organization in their community. Veteran organizers lead training sessions on a diverse set of topics beginning with the biblical basis for justice work, continuing by developing an understanding of, and skills in, such topics as one-to-one meetings, issue development, and fund-raising, and concluding with a role play of a direct action. 

Advanced Leaders Training Institute:

May 13-15, 2010, Richmond, Indiana
This training is designed for local leaders from DART-affiliated organizations who are interested in receiving advanced, focused training on one aspect of the organization’s work. The next DART Advanced Leaders Training Institute will be on May 13-15, 2010, and will focus on the Investment Drive process.

Clergy Conference:

Feb. 4-6, 2010, Orlando, Florida
This three-day conference is designed to foster relationships among clergy throughout the DART Network, while providing a training ground for a prophetic ministry of justice. Keynote speakers in the past have included: Drs. Willard Ashley, Robert Linthicum, Johnny Ray Youngblood, Walter Wink, and others.

The 2010 Clergy Conference will be on Feb. 3-5, in Orlando, Florida. The conference will be themed “Owning Our Power,” with guest speakers Dr. Ron Sider (Director of the Sider Center on Ministry & Public Policy and Professor of Theology at Palmer Theological Seminary, and author of Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger and 31 other books), and the Rev. William H. Lamar (Director of the Sustaining Pastor Excellence Grant Coordination Office at Duke Divinity School, AME Elder, and former leader with the DART affiliate ICARE, in Jacksonville, FL). Also, DART Network Clergy will share new sample justice sermons, justice Bible studies, issue updates, and their progress in building powerful Justice Ministry Networks.