Loving Your Neighbor: The Church in the City.
Grace DC, Christ our Shepherd, and Church of the Resurrection recently hosted a symposium on loving our neighbors in the District, searching for real life answers to these questions about poverty, mercy and justice. Over forty churches and ministries in the DC area came together, represented by over four-hundred fifty people.
Follow Up – continuing the conversation
- Join the Google Group! Discuss online with other practitioners of all levels what it means to be a neighbor, the classic question “who is my neighbor?”, down to the nitty-gritty. Share ideas and support. Hook up with existing ministries in your neighborhood. “Loving Your Neighbor”… LYN-DC Google Group.
Workshop Speakers
- George Sanker – Education in DC
George Sanker is Head of School at Hope Community Charter School, a public charter school in DC. Click here to listen. - Robert Boulter – Affordable Housing
Bob Boulter is the president of FaithWorks, a non-profit dedicated to transforming low-income neighborhoods through community development.Play this Message
- Brian Bakke & Jerry Eisley – Art, Beauty, and Justice
Brian Bakke is the Mustard Seed Foundation’s Director for North America.
Jerry Eisley is the director of the Washington Arts Group. Click here to listen to their workshop at the symposium. - Steven and Mary Park – Volunteering Well
The Parks serve as directors of Little Lights, an urban ministry serving underprivileged children in Southeast DC since 1995. http://www.littlelights.org/ - Frazier White – Ministry and Race in DC
Frazier White is the pastor of Faith Temple Church and director or Urban Soulutions, a ministry serving the community at Potomac Gardens.
Click here to listen to Frazier’s talk on Ministry and Race in the city. - Michael Worsley & Raimon Nelson – Theology of Place
Michael Worsley is responsible for neighborhood-focused ministry for World Vision D.C. Raimon Nelson is a World Vision D.C. supported youth worker who mentors youth through First Baptist Church in NW DC. (introduction) Click here to listen to a theology of place. - Emily and Michael – Homelessness
Isaiah 58. Click here to listen to the workshop on homelessness. - James Mullings – Mentoring Urban Youth
James Mullings is the founder and executive director of Vision Ministries and has been mentoring youth for more than 10 years. Click here to listen to Ward 4 reflections. - Terry Flood – Job Skills and Employment
Terry Flood is the co-founder and executive director of Jubilee Jobs, a non-profit job preparation, placement and retention ministry in DC. - Dr. Marilyn Corder – Public Health in DC
Dr. Corder is a Washington area pediatrician and a professor of pediatrics at George Washington University and Howard University Medical School. Click here to listen to Marilyn’s talk about the her experience with public health in DC
Featured Speakers:
- Bob Lupton, author of Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor, is a thirty-five year veteran of Christian community development in inner-city Atlanta. He was joined by several practitioners from DC in the discussion of how we can be good neighbors in our city. Click here to read his recent article on gentrification in By Faith Magazine. Copies of his book Compassion, Justice and Christian Life (available at Grace DC’s Info Table for $10). Click here to find more info about Bob Lupton and his work.
Listen: Plenary 1, Plenary 2, Q&A - Rev. Dr. Cheryl Sanders is Senior Pastor of the Third Street Church of God in Washington, D.C. since 1997, and Professor of Christian Ethics at the Howard University School of Divinity since 1984. She has published more than 100 articles and the following books: Ministry at the Margins (InterVarsity Press, 1997), Saints in Exile: The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture (Oxford, 1996), Empowerment Ethics for a Liberated People (Fortress, 1995), and Living the Intersection (Fortress, 1995). From 2000 to 2007 she was a contributing guest editor for Leadership, a journal for pastors. She is a graduate of the Sidwell Friends School, Swarthmore College and Harvard Divinity School. She has been awarded two honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees, the first by Asbury College in 2002, and the second by Anderson University in 2007.
Listen: Plenary 3