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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 261.80973
EAN: 9780801054631
ISBN: 080105463X
Label: Baker Books
Manufacturer: Baker Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: February 01, 1996
Publisher: Baker Books
Sales Rank: 34417
Studio: Baker Books

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This is an in-depth how-to manual for those involved in or interested in Christian community development among our nation's poor. Dr. Perkins, along with fourteen other urban ministry professionals, shares a wealth of experience in this practical handbook.

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- Essential Reading
In Restoring At-Risk Communities, John Perkins and other members of the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) provide an essential treatise for anyone who is concerned about community redevelopment. Each author writes out of a wealth of experience in actually working to restore declining communities. Their experiences offer important lessons for others to learn.

This text revolves around the "3-Rs" of the CCDA: relocation, reconciliation, and redistribution. The "3-Rs" provide the core values of the CCDA's approach to community redevelopment.

A commitment to relocation begins the process. This commitment grows from an understanding that communities cannot be permanently changed from the outside, but only from within. CCDA members commit to moving into the communities they are assisting, becoming active participants in the community. We cannot truly fix other's problems; we ... Read More

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- Eye-Opening and Engaging
Restoring At-Risk Communities is a book about development: the development of persons, of families, and of communities. How can at-risk communities be developed or redeveloped? As families, called by God, relocate to live and minister within these communities, the communities themselves begin to experience the positive effects of this move. Downward mobility replaces upward mobility and the "successful" are encouraged to become involved in the betterment of the community rather than move out and away from it. As individuals, families and ministries within these communities work towards reconciliation with their neighbors (reconciliation across racial as well as class and other lines), then a redistribution of talents and gifts and resources and contacts can, over time, work to empower the poor in the community. The community, in effect, becomes rich - in terms of what is made available within it (new jobs, new ... Read More

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- A Challenging Work
No matter how committed one may be to working with the poor and underclass, it is nearly impossible to see transformation in the lives of the generationally poor. John Perkins and the people of Christian Community Development (CCD) seem to have identified the major criteria for effectiveness - living with them.
The concepts of Relocation, Redistribution and Reconciliation are built on doing things with the poor, not for the poor. Thus they avoid the enabling behaviors that characterize most social programs.
The strength of the work is that CCD is anchored in the church and based upon seeing people become an interdependent community in Christ instead of focusing on the homogeneous principle basic to church growth. Most importantly it calls the church universal - urban, suburban and rural - to leave its comfort zone and fulfill its mission by becoming personally involved with people who are "not like us." ... Read More

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- Passionate About the Underclass
John Perkins writes with a passion, a passion for people, especially people who are the "underclass". Perkins believes that one problem in the black neighborhoods is that too many with strong leadership abilities have moved out of the projects and predominately black neighborhoods leaving behind those too poor to escape. He makes this statement in the introduction and then the rest of the book deals with the results and the solutions to this problem.
I would strongly agree with his statement that, "The moral crisis that wee are facing in this country is crying out for spiritual leadership". Perkins seems to be encouraged that today's evangelicals are beginning to take leadership in the area of helping the poor. He gives a list of those ministries that are effective today.. He shares with the reader a brief, and helpful history of the groups he feels are doing the most to help restore community.
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