How NOT To Change The World

How Not o Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World James Davison Hunter Oxford University Press, USA, 2010 368 pp., $20.12 Review by Andy Crouch How Not to Change the World A call to “faithful presence.” Near the end of his masterful book To Change the World, [...]

Assess to Bless

Understand your community with free demographic reports Want to learn more about the population, ethnicity, age, education, lifestyle and other key information about your community? NAMB provides free comprehensive demographic reports to any Southern Baptist church. Five-year projections are also provided on income and population trends. Reports can cover either a radius of a specified [...]

National Conference Call: Back to Church Sunday

“It was our highest attended worship service of the year!” This was the comment of a pastor who has worked with several cityreaching networks for decades. You are invited to join us for our monthly cityreaching conference call Thursday, May 20th at 10 a.m. Central Daylight Time with our guest, Eric Abel, of Outreach, Inc.  (11 [...]

“Sometimes we forget our neighbor is our neighbor.”

Love thy neighbor: Westminster families exemplify outreach Jaaya Crowe 5, has colored her face as well as the sidewalk as a horde of neighborhood kids color the sidewalk of the Crowe’s Westminster home. (Joe Amon | The Denver Post) It isn’t often a politician provides pastors with a religious epiphany. And Arvada Mayor Bob Frie [...]

Citywide Mobilizing

Salt & Light Workshop May 7-8, Knoxville, TN   Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare. (Jeremiah 29:7) God’s heart for our cities compels us to share the love of Christ “with [...]

In Your Backyard Community Impact

City Transformations You don’t have to travel far or spend lots of money in order to go on a mission trip. You can have a mission trip without leaving home. A mission trip in your own backyard. Acts 1:8: “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be [...]

Prayer & City Transformation: 2 Articles + 5 City Stories

Urban Renewal Article Resource Pack by Tom White & Phil Miglioratti for Pray! Magazine $0.00 Item Added to Cart Item Added to Cart How can prayer help change a community? This article collection from Pray! shows what happens when you partner with God in prayer for your city. Digital Download (PDF) • E-mail to a [...]

Chicago Pastor on “The City”

Center of the Action The creak of the ox cart in Thessalonica. The scream of the traffic cop’s whistle in New Orleans. The call of the shop keeper hawking merchandise in Corinth’s bustling market. The conductor’s baton taps the music stand calling the rehearsing St. Louis Symphony to attention. The roar of 30,000 throats in [...]

Conferring on Convergence

>>>NOTE – If you missed this year’s National City Impact Roundtable, join this call and grab some of the “best-of”! Following what many expressed was the best NCIR they ever experienced, we will continue our 2010 NCIR “Convergence” strategic conversation that began in Birmingham on our cityreaching conference call next Thursday, March 18th at 10am [...]

CITY IMPACT ~ Peoria, IL: Divine Experiment

In  February, the citywide Church in Peoria, representing over 18 congregations and  ministries, consecrated themselves to the Lord by participating in “The Divine  Experiment”. Participating ministries cancelled their normal schedules and  spent the time praying with their families and gathering in the evenings to pray together as a corporate body every night for 21 days!  [...]

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