Everyday Missions How Ordinary People Can Change the World by Leroy Barber

Everyday Missions How Ordinary People Can Change the World by Leroy Barber

It's not every day that you get a visit from God. Burning bushes, ladders to heaven, chariots of fire and all that--we look for those stories in the Bible, and we look for them in our lives. When it comes to something as important as what we do with our lives, we think, maybe God owes us a big event. But, as Leroy Barber has learned through his work in inner cities and with young people, that's not usually how it works. More often God calls out to us from everyday misfortunes and all-too-common injustices, and he invites our response--not just a response in the moment, but a recognition that we have a role to play in seeing God's kingdom come, God's will done, on earth as it is in heaven. Through the surprisingly normal stories of the heroes of faith in the Bible, and through Barber's experiences with Mission Year and other ministries, in this book you'll learn what it means to change the world from your own little space in it.

LEROY BARBER is the Executive Director of Word Made Flesh Ministries, and former president of Mission Year and of Focus Community Strategies (FCS) Urban Ministries. He is the author of two previous books, New Neighbor and Everyday Missions. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
VELMA MAIA THOMAS is author of six books on African American history, including the award-winning interactive project Lest We Forget, and co-author of Emancipation Proclamation: Forever Free. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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ISBN 13	9780830836369
ISBN 10	0830836365
Title	Everyday Missions How Ordinary People Can Change the World
Author	Leroy Barber
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	InterVarsity Press
Year published	2012-02-13
Number of pages	159
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