I know you want to see the quality of life improve for those you serve in your urban neighborhood.
In order to do that, you need to become a church that works for the common good of your community.
The problem is, you don’t have a model or a blueprint for doing ministry in this way. This makes you feel frustrated and maybe even isolated as you do the work to which you were called.
I believe every urban church leader should have a proven approach to help those in poverty while working for the common good of the community.
Let me guide you so that you can stop feeling frustrated by the challenges you face, and instead, start seeing the Gospel transform communities of poverty.
I know you want to see the quality of life improve for those you serve in your urban neighborhood.
In order to do that, you need to become a church that works for the common good of your community.
The problem is, you don’t have a model or a blueprint for doing ministry in this way. This makes you feel frustrated and maybe even isolated as you do the work to which you were called.
I believe every urban church leader should have a proven approach to help those in poverty while working for the common good of the community.
Let me guide you so that you can stop feeling frustrated by the challenges you face, and instead, start seeing the Gospel transform communities of poverty.
Alvin Sanders, author
IMPROVE THE QUALITY
OF EVERY FACET OF
YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
LEAD THROUGH THE COMPLEXITIES POVERTY PRESENTS IN MINISTRY
BUILD A CHURCH THAT
SEES COMMUNITY
TRANSFORMATION
When I was in ministry in the second-most violent neighborhood in the country, a racialized police shooting rocked our community. It was in that season that I planted a church that became a beacon of hope for the neighborhood.
It was hard work, and I know that what I went through wasn’t unusual for an urban pastor.
I’ve spent the last thirty years investing in those who invest in the poor. For the last six years, I’ve served as President & CEO of World Impact, a 50-year-old organization that helps train pastors to build churches in impoverished neighborhoods.
Together, we strive to make sure every impoverished community has a healthy church that improves the lives of everyone in the hood. I wrote Uncommon Church for us.
The local, urban church is the key to community transformation and plays three crucial roles of empowering, partnering, and reaching. Pastors and church planters interested in Christian community development in the context of urban neighborhoods will find practical insights into the power of the local church in the book Uncommon Church by Alvin Sanders. Order your copy wherever books are sold.
