Activity: Applying the COPO Framework

Utilize the COPO (Calling, Occupation, Passion, Opportunity) tool to gain clarity on how these elements interconnect in your life and how they can guide your urban ministry efforts.

Instructions

1. Reflect on Your Calling: Briefly describe your sense of calling to urban ministry. Consider why you feel drawn to this work and any moments or experiences that have affirmed this calling for you.
2. Analyze Your Occupation: List your current occupation or job. Reflect on how this position could support or align with your calling to urban ministry, even if the connection isn't immediately obvious.
3. Identify Your Passion: Note down what you are most passionate about in the context of urban ministry. What drives you? What issue or aspect of urban life do you feel most compelled to address?
4. Spot Opportunities: Consider the current opportunities for engaging in urban ministry. These could be through your church, community organizations, or personal initiatives.
5. Integrate COPO: Using your responses, create a visual or written plan that shows how your Calling, Occupation, Passion, and Opportunity can be integrated. Aim to identify practical steps or strategies that leverage these aspects towards effective urban ministry.
6. Submit your plan using the option below.

This exercise can help you see the bigger picture of how your unique calling, occupation, passion, and opportunities can come together in a coherent strategy for engaging in urban ministry.