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Making neighborhoods whole : a handbook for Christian community development / Wayne Gordon & John M. Perkins, with Randall Frame ; foreword by Shane Claiborne.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Books, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (182 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781461944256
  • 1461944252
  • 9780830895779
  • 0830895779
  • 9780830837564
  • 0830837566
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 261.8/32 23
LOC classification:
  • BV639.P6 G68 2013eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Foreword / Shane Claiborne -- A tale of two activists : roots of Christian community development -- Christian community development comes together : the 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.
Summary: 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." elocation " econciliation " edistribution " eadership Development " istening to the Community " hurch-Based Development " Wholistic Approach to Ministry " mpowerment 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)644042

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Foreword / Shane Claiborne -- A tale of two activists : roots of Christian community development -- Christian community development comes together : the 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.

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." elocation " econciliation " edistribution " eadership Development " istening to the Community " hurch-Based Development " Wholistic Approach to Ministry " mpowerment 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.