Urban Churches: Vital Signs: Beyond Charity toward Justice
- ISBN-10
- 159752123X
- ISBN-13
- 9781597521239
- Category
- Religion
- Pages
- 348
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-03-14
- Publisher
- Wipf and Stock Publishers
- Author
- Nile Harper
Description
Written by Nile Harper and six leading pastors, this volume tells the stories of twenty-eight urban churches that are successfully contributing to the transformation of inner-city communities in fifteen major cities across America -- Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York City, Portland, San Francisco, Savannah, and Washington, D.C.
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