Author : Wayne Gordon
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830837566
Civil rights leader John Perkins and CCDA president Wayne Gordon revisit the founding principles of the Christian Community Development Association, seeking to provide the terms for a new discussion around the emerging priorities of Christian community development today. Includes profiles of thriving urban ministries.
Author : Wayne Gordon
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780369317483
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 new tone. 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.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Church work with the poor
ISBN : 9781461944256
Author : Ross Chapin
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 160085107X
Architect and author Chapin describes existing pocket neighborhoods and co-housing communities while providing inspiration for creating new ones.
Author : John M. Perkins
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 1993-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1585582115
A powerful call to action to bring reconciliation and restoration to broken communities.
Author : Dan Chiras
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1550923234
The only book that shows how to transform existing suburbs to create environment- and people-friendly neighborhoods...
Author : Brad House
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433523175
Community within the church today is hemorrhaging. Attention spans are dwindling, noise levels are increasing, and we can't seem to find time for real relationships. The answer to such social fragmentation can be found in small groups, and yet the majority of small groups—at least in the traditional sense—are often not the intentional, transformational community we really want and need. Somehow we need to get our groups off life support and into authentic community. Pastor Brad House helps us to re-imagine what gospel-centered community looks like and shares from his experience leading and reproducing healthy small groups. With wisdom and candor, House challenges us to think carefully about our own groups and to take steps toward cultivating communities that are able to glorify Jesus, bless one another, and participate in the mission of God.
Author : Wayne L. Gordon
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310877261
When Wayne Gordon and his wife started a Bible study for high school kids in North Lawndale, Chicago, people warned them that a white couple moving into a black neighborhood as a recipe for disaster. That was twenty-five years ago. Today, what began as the Gordons' seedling Bible study has become the Lawndale Community Church. It has a staff of 150, has renovated more than 100 local apartments, has helped more than 50 young people graduate from college, runs a medical clinic that treated 50,000 patients in 1994, and has become a vital part of rebuilding an inner-city neighborhood into a community of faith and hope. Real Hope in Chicago is Wayne Gordon's inspiring account of how people, white and black, rich and poor, old and young, worked together to transform a decaying neighborhood into a place where love is lived out in practical and miraculous ways. It offers an exciting model for interracial cooperation, urban-suburban church partnering--and real hope for the inner cities of our nation.
Author : Philip Langdon
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,57 MB
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1610917715
In Within Walking Distance, journalist and urban critic Philip Langdon looks at why and how Americans are shifting toward a more human-scale way of building and living. He shows how people are creating, improving, and caring for walkable communities. To draw the most important lessons, Langdon spent time in six communities that differ in size, history, wealth, diversity, and education, yet share crucial traits: compactness, a mix of uses and activities, and human scale. To improve conditions and opportunities for everyone, Langdon argues that places where the best of life is within walking distance ought to be at the core of our thinking. This book is for anyone who wants to understand what can be done to build, rebuild, or improve a community while retaining the things that make it distinctive.
Author : Brian J. Godfrey
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Community organization
ISBN :
Ethnic and nonconformist communities, despite their frequent proximity, seldom are analyzed as interlocking elements of the metropolitan core. In this comparative study of San Francisco neighborhoods, Brian Godfrey contrasts the formation of ethnic enclaves by European, Asian, Black, and Hispanic groups with the emergence of Bohemian, counter-cultural, and gay communities. He focuses especially closely on Latin American immigration into the Mission District and gentrification in the Haight-Ashbury. To explain the historical geography of such inner-city neighborhoods, the author proposes alternate sequences of community evolution, based on the interplay of social class and subcultural forces. He shows how both ethnic and nontraditional minority communities tend to form initially in declining central neighborhoods, with their divergent successional processes reflecting characteristic differences in social mobility and cultural cohesion.
