Church-Based Community Development (video)
Sign in to rate“Coach” Wayne Gordon teaches the principles and practices of church-based community development. In this video course filmed on location in Lawndale, Coach shows how these principles are implemented in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago, including the Lawndale Health Center, the Hope House, Lou Malnati’s, and community housing.
Coach Gordon has lived and served in Lawndale for 43 years. He has worked as a high-school coach and as pastor of Lawndale Christian Community Church, building deep, long-term relationships. Key principles of church-based community development he teaches in this course include:
• loving God and loving neighbors
• listening to people in the community because they have the best solutions to their local problems
• learning a theology of place and the importance of place for ministry
• looking at issues of racism, justice, and poverty