Download or read book God in the Ghetto written by William A. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto written by James K. Wellman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the nation's best known churches, Fourth Presbyterian is a thriving mainline church housed in an elegant Gothic building in Chicago's wealthy Gold Coast neighborhood. Less than a mile to the west is another world: the Cabrini-Green low- income housing projects. In this evenhanded account, James Wellman surveys the church's history of balancing its theological aims and its social boundaries and sheds light on the strengths and weaknesses of liberal Protestantism as a modern religious institution. Wellman shows how Fourth Presbyterian has moved from an establishment congregation to what he calls a lay liberal church working to overcome class and race inequality in its urban context while carving out its institutional identity in an increasingly pluralistic environment. By examining the church's four main leaders over the course of the century, Wellman tracks Fourth Presbyterian's gradual shift away from an evangelical role and toward the current focus on service, epitomized in the church's main outreach program, an extensive volunteer tutoring program that serves hundreds of Cabrini-Green residents each week. In documenting Fourth Presbyterian's struggle to meet the needs of its privileged congregants while challenging them to move beyond exclusive boundaries of race and class, The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto opens a window into the past, present, and future of the Protestant mainline."

Download or read book God and Government in the Ghetto written by Michael Leo Owens and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, as government agencies have encouraged faith-based organizations to help ensure social welfare, many black churches have received grants to provide services to their neighborhoods’ poorest residents. This collaboration, activist churches explain, is a way of enacting their faith and helping their neighborhoods. But as Michael Leo Owens demonstrates in God and Government in the Ghetto, this alliance also serves as a means for black clergy to reaffirm their political leadership and reposition moral authority in black civil society. Drawing on both survey data and fieldwork in New York City, Owens reveals that African American churches can use these newly forged connections with public agencies to influence policy and government responsiveness in a way that reaches beyond traditional electoral or protest politics. The churches and neighborhoods, Owens argues, can see a real benefit from that influence—but it may come at the expense of less involvement at the grassroots. Anyone with a stake in the changing strategies employed by churches as they fight for social justice will find God and Government in the Ghetto compelling reading.

Download or read book Jesus and the Ghetto written by Frederick L Smith, Jr. and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Jesus present in the ghetto? The poetic new book Jesus and the Ghetto answers back that Jesus and his teachings are alive and well in the ghetto. This book could well be about any inner city in the world, since most major cities have ghettoes. Since I am more familiar with the Black person's persona, I am primarily shedding light on the conditions of Black people who live in poverty in America, and how a hope in Christ can lead them from living in poverty. In the first part of his book, author Frederick L. Smith, Jr. believes his poems encourage poor people to find a better way of life. The second part expresses things from the viewpoint of God, while the third part is my own observations and the way to rise above poverty and ghetto life. Set in the late 1980s in Cincinnati and Philadelphia, Jesus and the Ghetto is a hopeful book. It looks toward God and inner strength for us to set goals and find ways to accomplish them. About the Author: Frederick L. Smith, Jr. knew he wanted to be a writer at age thirteen. Now retired, he is a community volunteer, and is inspired by his wife, children and grandchildren. He lives in Cincinnati. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/JesusAndTheGhetto.htm

Download or read book Christ in the Ghetto written by Mona Bazaar and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Christians in the Warsaw Ghetto written by Peter Florian Dembowski and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable book, which combines both memoir and historical analysis, Peter F. Dembowski describes the fate some five thousand Christians of Jewish origin lived in the Warsaw ghetto during the early 1940s.

Download or read book Christ in the Ghetto written by Redeemed Gospel Church, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ghetto Bible written by Jovan Smith and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only the strong survive, in the land where greed is king. From the highest office in the land, to the bottom of the food chain: The Ghetto. Who will survive the Black Housing Projects, and make it out alive, all in the name of The All Mighty Dollar? In God We Trust.

Download or read book From Ghetto to Glory written by Bishop J. Delano Ellis II and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ghetto to Glory is a biographical story of a boy raised in dysfunction, prophesied to be a failure before he could finish school. Its about a boy who suffered beatings for his faith and dismissed from his family because he chose Christ over the religion of his father. The story is somewhat graphic, but the pain in each page culminates in a glory unexpected by the reader. Read the book and walk with Bishop Ellis from water to solid ground, and you will appreciate his need to praise God at every circumstance. You may just find yourself praising God along with him.

Download or read book Theology Out of the Ghetto written by Hendrikus Boers and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1971 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Christ in the Ghetto written by Richard L. Gleason and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ghetto Revival written by Belinda Guest Weale and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When twelve-year-old Sherza, an exceptional student, walks out with his father in Saint Louis, Missouri, he sees a boy about his age who appears to be homeless. Sherza, a Christian, wants to help him, although his father is hesitant. He warns Sherza that the child could be involved in criminal activity, and does not want him involved with anyone with that background. Sherza persists in his desire to help the young boy and, going against his own better judgment, Sherza's father gives his son some money to share with the child. Sherza introduces himself to the thirteen-year-old boy named Cos, who is in fact homeless. Sherza and Cos immediately become friends, and Sherza learns about Cos' life, including his involvement in illegal activities, such as theft, robbery and drug dealing. Then Sherza and Cos are kidnapped, and Sherza is separated from his family. What can he do to save himself? Is there any way, with all of the gangster members around him, that he can escape poverty and crime, and possibly help spawn a Ghetto Revival?

Download or read book No Neutral Ground written by Pete Portal and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cape Town is one of the most beautiful cities in the world - often described as a kind of heaven on earth. Yet for the majority of its inhabitants it is hell. Apartheid-spawned ghettoes are everywhere, and for those living in Manenberg - a coloured township on the Cape Flats, purpose-built by the apartheid government as part of its forced removal plan - life is just as marginal today as it was during apartheid. The main differences now are the rampant drug use and widespread gang presence. No Neutral Ground is a gripping account of Pete Portal's move from London to Manenberg, of addicts and gangsters meeting Jesus and being transformed, and how he went from living with a heroin addict to establishing a church community - and all the heartbreak and failure along the way. This is a story of mighty works of God, as well as relapse, hopelessness and despair; the miraculous and the mundane, heaven and hell, all balanced on a knife edge. Offering searing insight and an inspiring vision of faith, Pete asks why anyone would choose this way of life, if giving up our lives for others is worth it - and what the church could become if we were willing to risk it all to reach the forgotten and the lost.

Download or read book The Ghetto Mourns for Jesus Christ written by Mother Mary and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Gospel According to the Ghetto written by Canaan Banana and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ghetto Psalms written by Kristal Elijah and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relates to people who are lost in crime or lost and forgotten in time, people who have trials and tribulations like me people who seek guidance from the divine no matter who you are or what you’ve done God loves us all. When surrounded by worldy things we tend to forget that and how to love and forgive ourselves the way our farther has if we trust in him and let go and let God direct our paths any thing is possible trusting in God will help us to trust in ourselves. Hopefully my testimony will be inspiring to your soul to let go and let God get a hold of you because he will never let go. This book is about different emotions we have while dealing with situations that occur during life specifically for diverse Christians in urban areas.

Download or read book Diary of a Ghetto Priest written by Richard Ho Lung and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slums of Kingston, Jamaica are among the most poor and violent on earth. But in the midst of crumbling buildings and shattered families, of addictions, hunger, and crime there is a sign of hope: Father Richard Ho Lung and his Missionaries of the Poor. Here on the streets of Kingston, Fr. Ho Lung and his brothers care tenderly for the poor, pray with them, and preach the Good News. In Diary of a Ghetto Priest, Father Ho Lung offers readers an extraordinary glimpse into his life's work. And he extends an invitation: Come see the exuberant, tragic lives of the poorest of the poor. Dare to experience their sorrows and their joys. Be willing to encounter the Lord in the most unexpected places. Your life may never be the same.