Who Moved My Neighborhood?: Leading Congregations Through Gentrification and Economic Change
Who Moved My Neighborhood?: Leading Congregations Through Gentrification and Economic Change Neighborhoods are moving. The rapid movement of people means changes in employment, economics, landscape,…
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Who Moved My Neighborhood?: Leading Congregations Through Gentrification and Economic Change
Neighborhoods are moving. The rapid movement of people means changes in employment, economics, landscape, demographics, and the feel of a community. While neighborhood changes can mean exciting and fresh opportunities for some, the experience can be vastly different for long-time residents.
Depending on how a church navigates through these changes determines if it will either live, die, or be reduced to a tragic existence on life support. Churches often experience the painful impact of these shifts. Mark Strong knows the obstacles connected with gentrification and the challenges it brings.
As a pastor, he led his church through its own moved neighborhood in Portland. Strong shares the frustrations, surprises, and joys that his church experienced as their neighborhood shifted, and he provides the roadmap that his own church used to navigate the change. Who Moved