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Full Description
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.
Contents
Foreword by Harold Calvin Ray
Preface
Part One: Navigating the Healing Process
1. Who Moved My Neighborhood?
2. Discovering the Healing Process
3. Regular
4. Recognition
5. Realization
6. Reconstruction
7. Rage
8. Reconciliation
Part Two: Mapping Your Future
9. Revamp
10. The Vision Question
11. The Identity Question
12. The Purpose Question
13. The Relational Question
14. Navigational Surprises
Conclusion
Appendix: Relational Jump Starters
Navigation Guide: Discussion Questions
Notes
Scripture Index
