Community Wake-Up Call Rallies

The fourth step of Transform Dallas will focus on Community Wake-Up Call Rallies. These will be rallies where a month is chosen to involve the entire community. Community organizations have already been engaged at this point with the mentioned programs and are launched during this week. Churches may choose to utilize the transformation sermon series that focus on personal, family, church, and community transformation. On the fifth week following the four weeks of preparation, the community comes together for a week long series of events that include physical transformation (clean yards, paint homes, fix decay, etc. based on the www.groupworkcamps.com model), spiritual transformation (evangelistic, social action, prayer teams implement the block by block strategy), and social transformation (block or park parties with food distribution, games, outreach to children, etc.). Each of these events are coordinated by local organizations and ministries that partner with city-wide organizations and churches.

Example: Local community outreach in West Dallas with nearly 50 organizations launch Bless West festival with targeted high crime areas blitzed with prayer, spiritual outreach, local clean up, back to school drive, sports camps, etc. Local police division reports drop in crime significantly on weekend of event and drop of crime week following. Other examples are in South Dallas Turner Courts by H.I.S. Bridgebuilders and Dallas Leadership Foundation annual clean-up drives throughout the city of Dallas.