Making Neighbourhoods Whole: A Handbook for Christian Community Development

2013, 182 pp
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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 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 Neighbourhoods 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.

"No one understands better how to transform neglected communities than John Perkins and Wayne Gordon"

- Bob Lupton,
founder and president of FCS Urban Ministries

"Perkins and Gordon lay out the keys to successfully engaging cities with the Gospel. They give examples of how certain core principles have helped empower communities and how they can transform churches' urban ministries."

Relevant Magazine, January-February 2015

TypePrint
GenreHandbook/Guide
ExpressionGeneral Writing/Recording
TopicCommunity Ministry
AudienceLeaders
LanguageEnglish
PublisherInterVarsity Press
ISBN9780830837564

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