PDF Making Neighborhoods Whole A Handbook for Christian Community Development Dr Wayne Gordon Dr John M Perkins PhD Shane Claiborne 9780830837564 Books
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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 CCDAÂ’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
PDF Making Neighborhoods Whole A Handbook for Christian Community Development Dr Wayne Gordon Dr John M Perkins PhD Shane Claiborne 9780830837564 Books
"This is a very short book considering that it provides a solid introduction to both the story of CCDA and the principles of asset-based community development. It's an easy, accessible read, and one I highly recommend for anyone who is interested in community development ...or tired of the pitfalls associated with a "relief work" mindset in systemic contexts."
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Making Neighborhoods Whole A Handbook for Christian Community Development Dr Wayne Gordon Dr John M Perkins PhD Shane Claiborne 9780830837564 Books Reviews :
Making Neighborhoods Whole A Handbook for Christian Community Development Dr Wayne Gordon Dr John M Perkins PhD Shane Claiborne 9780830837564 Books Reviews
- The only reason I wouldn't give it 5 stars is the brevity and the tagline "handbook." It doesn't go too deep, but there are several powerful and pithy, entertaining stories that initiate a novice like me to the core values of the Christian Community Development Association and present a method and plan to work out a "missional" calling to a major urban center or any underserved community. I wonder if I had read this book before trying to get a church off the ground in Philly if we would have seen a different outcome.
- This is a very short book considering that it provides a solid introduction to both the story of CCDA and the principles of asset-based community development. It's an easy, accessible read, and one I highly recommend for anyone who is interested in community development ...or tired of the pitfalls associated with a "relief work" mindset in systemic contexts.
- This is a must read for all involved in community work! It gives a very practical path to wholistic incarnational neighborhood transformation.
- this is a great book for anyone wanting to know what ministry in the inner city is all about. i would strongly recommend it.
- I bought it for a friend wanting to explore community development in Egypt, based on name recognition of the authors.
- Good introduction to the eight key components of the CCDA (Christian Community Development Association
- If you are against the "Social Gospel", if you agree with C. S. Lewis that Jesus' parable of the sheep and the goats is "frightening", and if you want to know what obeying Jesus means in terms of the "loving your neighbor" especially "the least of these" then you will read this book.
- Rock bands like Switchfoot don’t compose tribute songs to just anybody. But when they do, one does well to take note. The band famously memorialized the words—or at least the sentiments—of St. Augustine in the 1999 song “Something More.†And as philosophy professor David Naugle wrote last year in Comment, this was anything but an isolated instance. Rather, he argues, “key aspects of the influential saint’s Christian vision, especially its existential aspects, permeate the band’s lyrics.â€
A decade after “Something More†appeared on the album New Way to be Human, Switchfoot paid tribute to another hero on Hello Hurricane. Here is what frontman Jon Foreman had to say about “The Sound (John M. Perkins’ Blues)â€
"[It] is a very important song for us as a band. I see so much hatred and fear around me, I see so many people living out their pain. I hear it on the radio. I see it in the headlines. John Perkins story needs to be heard. This song was inspired by a man who sang a louder song than hatred. In a world where we are defined by our differences, Mr. Perkins’s life of service and compassion is a tangible demonstration of what it means to live a life of love. Love is the loudest song we could sing. Louder than racism. Louder than fear. Louder than hatred. John Perkins said it right, love is the final fight. We’re excited to hear this song on the radio, louder than pain."
Perkins, as I’ve said before, is something of a hero for me too, and his books have profoundly shaped my thinking on faith, justice, racial reconciliation, and especially community development. But of course, he’s impacted the lives of many, perhaps primarily through his involvement with the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA), which he helped to establish nearly 25 years ago.
Now, along with Wayne Gordon, a Chicago pastor who led CCDA for many years and now serves as president of the board, Perkins has written Making Neighborhoods Whole A Handbook for Christian Community Development (InterVarsity Press). The book primarily serves as an overview of CCDA’s distinctives, which may not sound overly compelling, but I found that it does so in a richly engaging way.
Perkins and Gordon begin with a bit of history, including formative moments in their own lives, how their paths eventually crossed, and of course, the story of how CCDA took root, how it has morphed over the years, and where it might be headed in the future. I’ve read several books by Perkins (and one co-authored by Gordon) before, and have been familiar with CCDA for some time. Some of this was therefore review, but I was interested to discover details I’d either never known or forgotten about the remarkably vibrant association they have helped to lead.
The authors then outline the eight core components or hallmarks of Christian community development, taking them a chapter at a time. The first three—relocation, reconciliation, and redistribution—originated with Perkins early on, while the latter five—leadership development, listening to the community, being church-based, a wholistic approach, and empowerment—were added later in collaboration with others. (One or two of those words might raise red flags for some readers of this blog, but I’d encourage you to find out what they mean by them before rushing to judgment.)
Supplementing these eight hallmarks in the book are short essays from a variety of Christian community development practitioners, most of whom toil in obscurity. That is, they’re only household names in the neighborhoods where they actually live and work, where they’re beloved and anything but unknown.
For those already acquainted with the work of CCDA, Making Neighborhoods Whole will help provide context for the organization as it exists today. For those interested in the book who represent broad swaths of evangelicals newly energized by the idea of seeking the flourishing of our cities, but who don’t know much about CCDA, the history chapters might get into some unnecessary minutiae (budget fluctuations and conference attendance year by year, for instance). But the real heart of the book—the chapters and corresponding essays on the hallmarks—will be helpful and interesting, I think, for everyone.
Those with any level of responsibility for or involvement in church or nonprofit ministry among the poor, both domestically and abroad, would find much of value in Making Neighborhoods Whole.
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