A compelling memoir by an urban minister and community development practitioner with more than thirty years of experience in the field.
Using the foundation of Jesus\' teaching and love for the poor, the book shows practical and visionary ways Christ\'s teaching can be made real..
The author\'s own journey provides the platform from which he provides a practical, theological, market-savvy manual written for others who find themselves living, serving, and investing in the work of urban transformation.
This is an organizational success story you expect to see in the Wall Street Journal, and yet it is like no other.
With a budget of fourteen million dollars annually, the organization--now called City Square--also develops housing for the formerly homeless and manages health clinics and community medical outreach in economically depressed and under-served places like East and South Dallas.
Since that day Josefina began helping two decades ago, Larry has been asking neighbors to help solve their own problems, and this new way of serving side by side has transformed a small food pantry into one of the largest non-profit food distributors in the world.
She came back the next day for nine years.
She had come for assistance, but Josefina ended up helping Larry that day, and the next.
As the new director of a food pantry, Larry was quickly overwhelmed, and one day when trying to communicate with Spanish-speaking families, he asked a woman named Josefina to help translate.
Encouraged by his wife, Brenda, to follow the truth he had so often shared as a pastor, Larry accepted.
Then came the intriguing invitation to move his ministry to inner city Dallas among some of the \'\'poorest\'\' people in the community.
Larry James appeared to be exactly where he was supposed to be--ministering with a large, suburban Dallas church.
A compelling memoir by an urban minister and community development practitioner with more than thirty years of experience in the field
