Who Moved My Neighborhood? (eBook)

Leading Congregations Through Gentrification and Economic Change

Mark E. Strong (Autor)

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2022 | 1. Auflage
176 Seiten
IVP (Verlag)
978-1-5140-0239-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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, George Fox Seminary) is senior pastor of LifeChange Christian Church, a diverse congregation located in the heart of inner-city Portland, Oregon. He is 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.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2022
• Vorwort: Harold Calvin Ray
• Verlagsort: Lisle
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Christian community development • church planting • Community • community development • Ecclesiology • Faithful Presence • Gentrification • gentrification and the church • gentrified neighborhood • how to respond to gentrificiation • Local Church • local mission • missional • Missional Church • neighborhood • Neighborhood Church • neighborhood ministry • neighborhood mission • Pastor • pastoral leadership • urban church • Urban Church Planting • Urban Ministry • urban mission • urban neighborhood church planting
• ISBN-10: 1-5140-0239-6 / 1514002396
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5140-0239-1 / 9781514002391