Making Neighborhoods Whole A Handbook for Christian Community Development by Wayne Gordon

Making Neighborhoods Whole A Handbook for Christian Community Development by Wayne Gordon

Already with decades of experience speaking prophetically into the charged racial climate of the American south, John Perkins began to see a need for organized thinking and collaborative imagination about how the church engages urban ministry. And so the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) was born, with Wayne Gordon an immediate and enthusiastic participant. Nearly thirty years later CCDA?s eight key components of community development still set the bar for how churches, parachurches and nonprofits engage cities with the whole gospel.

• Relocation
• Reconciliation
• Redistribution
• Leadership Development
• Listening to the Community
• Church-Based Development
• A Wholistic Approach to Ministry
• Empowerment

In Making Neighborhoods Whole Perkins and Gordon revisit these eight commitments and how they've played out in real communities, even as they scan the horizon of urban ministry to set a newtone. With profiles of longstanding and emerging community development ministries, they guide a new conversation and empower disciples of Jesus to seek the welfare of their cities to the glory of God.

WAYNE L. GORDON is founding pastor of Lawndale Community Church in Chicago and president of the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA ), a nationwide network of people and ministries that engage in community development. He is cofounder of the Lawndale Christian Health Center, which sees more than 150,000 patients a year, and founder of the Lawndale Christian Development Corporation, which facilitates economic development, education and housing. Dr. Gordon teaches at several colleges and seminaries and has written extensively on God's heart for the poor, breaking racial barriers and empowering people. He and his wife, Anne, have three adult children.

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ISBN 13	9780830837564
ISBN 10	0830837566
Title	Making Neighborhoods Whole A Handbook for Christian Community Development
Author	Wayne Gordon
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	InterVarsity Press
Year published	2013-08-26
Number of pages	182
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