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PODCAST RECORDING: Bob Lupton Speaks: Insights into Serving the City – Richmond, VA 6.8.2012

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We are so thrilled that Bob’s talk was recorded and was uploaded for your listening pleasure!  Logan Jones, Worship and Arts Director at Northminster Church, just provided me the link!  WOO HOO! I praise and thank God for Logan and Northminster for such awesome partnership!

History:

7 years ago, I moved into Southern Barton Heights, just a short 1/2 mile from Gilpin Court, the largest public housing complex located between Baltimore and Atlanta.  It was only after living here that I began to truly understand the plight of the inner city of Richmond.  Although I had a car (and then 2 after Louis and I got married) and a full-time job and the resources that I needed to live easily, the struggles and challenges of my neighbors became mine as well.  Because when you enter into a loving friendship and familial relationship, that’s what happens.  Your family’s struggles start to become your own.  Trying to learn as much as I could, I started to research and learn about Richmond’s history and statistics.  I also read everything I could get my hands on from people like John Perkins, Wayne Gordon, and Bob Lupton.  In April of 2011, Louis and I headed to Chicago to attend CCDA’s (Christian Community Development Association) Immersion training, and intensive training on Christian Community Development.

Now, we are sharing our learnings and connections with our friends, old and new, here in Richmond, VA, by inviting folks like Bob Lupton to speak and encourage us to continue on.  Not only do we want to help prepare and equip the church of Richmond to get involved in CCD, but also to network and work in unity with one another as the body of Christ.  We are thankful for the sponsors that made this event possible!

Here’s the podcast.  Be challenged and encouraged and convicted all at the same time.  I pray that you will not only listen to the words of Bob Lupton – as he models a Christ-like way of transforming challenged communities, but that you will also join us in being do-ers.  I pray that God speaks through Bob to your heart, soul and mind.

Peace, Marti

CLICK HERE >>> PODCAST RECORDING:  Bob Lupton Speaks:  Insights into Serving the City

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You Made It Happen! Bob Lupton Visit (Post 3)

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Some of you asked for the data from the powerpoint slide that ran before and after the event.  Here it is!  Thanks to the sponsors who helped make this event happen!  You guys totally rock!!!  Click the link to watch the Powerpoint from Friday night’s event.

June 8th – Bob Lupton Speaks: Insights into Serving the City

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Revision 6.6.2012:  Online Registration will close at Midnight CT on Thursday, 6.7.  Please be sure to register today!  Tickets (Cash/Check preferred) will be available onsite as long as seats are available.  Please email missmartishouse [at] me.com if you plan to pay onsite so we can get an accurate headcount.  Thanks!
As part of our continuing efforts to prepare and equip the church of Richmond in Christian Community Development, we are excited to announce that Bob Lupton is coming to Richmond!

Speaker:  Bob Lupton

 IMG_7866Bob Lupton has invested almost 40 years of his life in inner-city Atlanta. In response to a call that he first felt while serving in Vietnam, he left a budding business career to work with delinquent urban youth. Bob and his family sold their suburban home and moved into the inner-city where they have lived and served as neighbors among those in need. His life’s work has been the rebuilding of urban neighborhoods where families can flourish and children can grow into healthy adults.

Bob is a Christian community developer, an entrepreneur who brings together communities of resource with communities of need. Through FCS Urban Ministries – a non-profit organization which he founded – he has developed two mixed-income subdivisions, organized a multi-racial congregations, started a number of businesses, created housing for hundreds of families, and initiated a wide range of human services in his community. He is the author of five books (Theirs is the Kingdom, Return Flight, Renewing the City and Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life plus his newest book Toxic Charity) and the widely circulated Urban Perspectives – Reflections on the Gospel, Grace and the City. Bob has a PhD. in psychology from the University of Georgia. He serves as a speaker, strategist and inspirer with those who seek to establish God’s Shalom in the city.
Date:  Friday, June 8th
Time:  Doors open at 6:30p, Bob will speak at 7pm.
Location:  Northminster Church – Contemporary Worship Center
Ticket: $10 which can be purchased at:  http://www.ccda.org/gather/event/37  Your confirmation is your ticket.
Please use the attached flyer to announce it at your church, non-profit, website, Facebook, Twitter, etc!  Feel free to forward as well.  We are looking forward to an awesome gathering!!!
If you have questions, don’t hesitate to contact me!

Bob Lupton Speaks: Insights into Serving the City

CCDA, Gatherings, , , , , , ,
Revision 6.6.2012:  Online Registration will close at Midnight CT on Thursday, 6.7.  Please be sure to register today!  Tickets (Cash/Check preferred) will be available onsite as long as seats are available.  Please email missmartishouse [at] me.com if you plan to pay onsite so we can get an accurate headcount.  Thanks!
As part of our continuing efforts to prepare and equip the church of Richmond in Christian Community Development, we are excited to announce that Bob Lupton is coming to Richmond!
Date: Friday, June 8th
Time: Doors open at 6:30p, Bob will speak at 7pm.
Location: Northminster Church – Contemporary Worship Center
Ticket: $10, which can be purchased on CCDA’s Website (Christian Community Development Association): Pay Here
Your confirmation is your ticket.
Please use the attached flyer to announce it at your church, non-profit, website, Facebook, Twitter, etc! Feel free to forward as well. We are looking forward to an awesome gathering!!!
If you have questions, don’t hesitate to contact me!