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Making Neighborhoods Whole: A Handbook for Christian Community Development is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

While he felt called to the proclamation of the good news, his vision included a clear focus on racial reconciliation and community development. He saw not only the mandate to care for people’s souls but also the call to care for the human needs of his new neighbors. He didn’t want to just focus on charity but also to make certain people had the skills and the resources they needed to live godly and productive lives. The concept of redistribution that John began to talk about in those early days
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