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The Wealth of the Poor: How Valuing Every Neighbor Restores Hope in Our Cities Paperback - 2013

by Larry M. James


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A compelling memoir by an urban minister and community development practitioner with more than thirty years of experience in the field.

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Larry James appeared to be exactly where he was supposed to be--ministering with a large, suburban Dallas church. Then came the intriguing invitation to move his ministry to inner city Dallas among some of the "poorest" people in the community. Encouraged by his wife, Brenda, to follow the truth he had so often shared as a pastor, Larry accepted.

As the new director of a food pantry, Larry was quickly overwhelmed, and one day when trying to communicate with Spanish-speaking families, he asked a woman named Josefina to help translate. She had come for assistance, but Josefina ended up helping Larry that day, and the next. She came back the next day for nine years.

Since that day Josefina began helping two decades ago, Larry has been asking neighbors to help solve their own problems, and this new way of serving side by side has transformed a small food pantry into one of the largest non-pro!t food distributors in the world. With a budget of fourteen million dollars annually, the organization--now called CitySquare--also develops housing for the formerly homeless and manages health clinics and community medical outreach in economically depressed and under-served places like East and South Dallas.

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  • Title The Wealth of the Poor: How Valuing Every Neighbor Restores Hope in Our Cities
  • Author Larry M. James
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 285
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Abilene Christian University Press
  • Date 2013-06-01
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780891123804 / 0891123806
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Church work with the poor - Texas - Dallas, Urban poor - Texas - Dallas
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012043078
  • Dewey Decimal Code 261.832

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