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Planting and Growing Urban Churches From Dream to Reality

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ISBN-10: 080102109X

ISBN-13: 9780801021091

Edition: N/A

Authors: Harvie M. Conn

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If the church is to thrive in the twenty-first century, it will have to take on a new form as it ministers to the 120 million unchurched people in the United States. Planting and Growing Urban Churches is still virtually the only available text on church planting in North America and beyond. In this third edition, readers will find material on the importance of healthy, biblical change in our churches, updated appendices, insight on our postmodern ministry context, and strategies for reaching new population demographics such as Generation X and Y.Pastors, ministry leaders, and church planters will find the information and advice found in this book invaluable as they carry out their…    
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List price: $30.00
Publisher: Baker Academic
Publication date: 7/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Ortiz (D.Min., Westminster) is professor of ministry and urban mission and director of the urban program at Westminster Theological Seminary. For fourteen years he ministered to Hispanics in Chicago, founding four churches, two elementary schools and an extension school for theological education. He has continued in community ministry by planting a multiethnic church in Philadelphia and by promoting urban and multiethnic ministry around the nation through his speaking and consulting efforts.Conn was emeritus professor of missions at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before his death in 1999. He served as a missionary in Korea for twelve years and joined the…    

Preface
Contributors
Introduction
Research: Searching for the Right Questions
Introduction to Part 1
Learning from Urban Church Research
Using Research Strategically in Urban Ministry
Caleb Project Research Expeditions
Resources for Doing Research
Strategy Planning: Searching for the Right Answers
Introduction to Part 2
The Challenge of World Evangelization to Mission Strategy
Addressing Felt Needs of Urban Dwellers
How to Create an Urban Strategy
Resources for Doing Strategy Planning
Targeting: Linking Church to Urban Community
Introduction to Part 3
From Homogeneity to Congruence: A Church-Community Model
Sorry! The Frontier Moved
Networking: Hope for the Church in the City
Rural Roots and Urban Evangelism
Resources for Linking Church to City
Samples: Linking Strategy to Model
Introduction to Part 4
Church Planting Strategies for World-Class Cities
Megachurches for Christian Minorities: Hope of Bangkok
Reproducing House Churches: An Autobiographical Pilgrimage
His Word to His World: First Baptist Church, Flushing, New York
Between Resurrection and Reconciliation: The Story of New Song Community Church
Harambee Christian Family Center
Encounter with God: The Guayaquil Model
Resources for Sampling
Index of Subjects
Index of Names
Index of Biblical References