Making Neighborhoods Whole A Handbook for Christian Community Development

Name: Making Neighborhoods Whole A Handbook for Christian Community Development
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ISBN: 9780830837564

ISBN-10: 0830837566

ISBN-13: 9780830837564

Edition: 2013

Authors: Wayne Gordon, John M. Perkins, Shane Claiborne

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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 CCDAs eight key components of community development still set the bar for how churches, parachurches and nonprofits engage cities with the whole gospel. RelocationReconciliationRedistributionLeadership DevelopmentListening to the CommunityChurch-Based Development A Wholistic Approach to…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 8/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 182
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Wayne Gordon (D.Min., Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary) is founding pastor of Lawndale Community Church and chairman/president of the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA).

Shane Claiborne, activitist and author of The Irresistible Revolution and Jesus for President , and coauthor of Common Prayer, is a founder of The Simple Way, a community in inner-city Philadelphia that has helped birth and connect radical faith communities around the world. WWW.thesimpleway.org



Foreword




A Tale of Two Activists: Roots of Christian Community Development



Christian Community Development Comes Together: CCDA's Early Years



The State of Christian Community Development: Recent Past to Next Horizon



Relocation



Reconciliation



Redistribution



Leadership Development



Listening to the Community



Being Church-Based



A Wholistic Approach



Empowerment


Afterword



Appendix: CCDA Annual Conferences


Notes


Contributors