Who Moved My Neighborhood? – Leading Congregations Through Gentrification and Economic Change

Mark E. Strong, Harold Calvin Ray (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2022
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-1-5140-0238-4 (ISBN)

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Neighborhoods are moving. While offering opportunities for some, gentrification can be a vastly different experience for long-time residents and neighborhood churches. As a pastor who led his church through its own moved neighborhood in Portland, Mark Strong gives insight to churches that need to heal from the wounds of gentrification and revamp their mission amidst an uncertain future.

Neighborhoods are moving. While neighborhood changes can mean exciting and fresh opportunities for some, the experience can be vastly different for long-time residents. The rapid movement of people means changes in employment, economics, landscape, demographics, and the feel of a community. Churches often experience the painful impact of these shifts. Depending on how a church navigates through these changes determines if it will either live, die, or be reduced to a tragic existence on life support.
Mark Strong knows the obstacles connected with gentrification and the challenges it brings. As a pastor, he led his church through its own moved neighborhood in Portland. Strong shares the frustrations, surprises, and joys that his church experienced as their neighborhood shifted, and he provides the roadmap that his own church used to navigate the change. Who Moved My Neighborhood? gives insight to churches that need to heal from the wounds of gentrification and economic change, and revamp their mission amidst an uncertain future. Using the discussion guide included in the book, churches can discuss their own moved neighborhood and explore the unique next steps that God has for their community. There is hope and a future for congregations that face a moved neighborhood.

Mark E. Strong (DMin, Portland Seminary) is senior pastor of Life Change Church, a diverse congregation located in the heart of inner-city Portland, Oregon. He is also the author of Church for the Fatherless, and he serves on the Board of Regents at George Fox Seminary. He and his wife, Marla, have four children.

Foreword by Harold Calvin Ray

Preface

Part One: Navigating the Healing Process

1. Who Moved My Neighborhood?

2. Discovering the Healing Process

3. Regular

4. Recognition

5. Realization

6. Reconstruction

7. Rage

8. Reconciliation

Part Two: Mapping Your Future

9. Revamp

10. The Vision Question

11. The Identity Question

12. The Purpose Question

13. The Relational Question

14. Navigational Surprises

Conclusion

Appendix: Relational Jump Starters

Navigation Guide: Discussion Questions

Notes

Scripture Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.01.2022
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	141 x 215 mm
Gewicht	216 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
ISBN-10	1-5140-0238-8 / 1514002388
ISBN-13	978-1-5140-0238-4 / 9781514002384
Zustand	Neuware