Interfaith Community Organizing Project (ICOP) is a training network committed to empowering faith communities and leaders to learn and employ community organizing strategies.
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the Interfaith Community Organizing Project ICOP) is to educate, equip and empower church lay leaders and clergy to engage in faith-based community organizing efforts to transform their congregations and communities.
One focus will be to provide community organizing training for seminarians of various faith traditions to have the skills to engage in effective community engagement when they begin their work in their local congregation and community.
A second focus would be to serve as a resource to judicatories of various faith traditions to equip and empower their congregations to be change agents for their congregations and communities.
THE ICOP TRAINING TEAM
Add a description here.
Rev. Trey Hammond
Trey is a Presbyterian pastor and has served as the Co-Chair of Albuquerque Interfaith, an affiliate of the IAF Network, for twenty years. He has served urban congregations in Dallas and Albuquerque.
His organizing work has focused on public education, homelessness, affordable housing, and immigrant rights.
He and Rev. Phil Tom published an article in the journal Religion and Cities entitled "Community Organizing and Congregational Agency in Shaping City Life" in 2020.
Rev. Phil Tom
Write something about this member of your team to introduce them to your visitors.
Kip Bobroff, Esq.
Write something about this member of your team to introduce them to your visitors.
Team member
Write something about this member of your team to introduce them to your visitors.
Team member
Write something about this member of your team to introduce them to your visitors.