Search
Top
Links

More Resources

 Jeremiah 29:7 (TNIV) "Seek the peace (shalom) of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. African Proverb

Matthew 6:10 We pray 'God's Kindomcome and will be done in cities everywhere as it is in Heaven.'

Books/Articles:

Prayer:

  • Brother Lawrence and Frank Laubach. Practicing the Presence of God.
  • Hawthorne, Steve and Graham Kendrick. Prayer Walking, Praying On-Sight with Insight.
  • Heidish, Marcy. Soul and the City: Finding God in the Noise and Frenzy of Life.
  • Otis, George. Informed Intercession.
  • Pier, Mac & Sweeting, Kathy. The Power of a City at Prayer.
  • White, Tom. City-Wide Prayer Movements.

Community Development:

  • Block, Peter and John McKnight. The Abundant Community.  
  • Block, Peter and John McKnight. Gluing Communities Back Together (article).
  • Block, Peter and John McKnight. Neighborhood Wake Up Call (article).
  • Brueggemann, Walter. Journey to the Common Good.   
  • CFA Workbooks: “Communities First” edited by Jay Van Groningen www.communitiesfirstassociation.org 
  • Clark, Chap and Kara Powell. Deep Justice in a Broken World: Helping Your Kids Serve Others and Right the Wrongs Around them. 
  • Corbet, Nathan. Taking it to the Streets.
  • Corbett, Steve and Brian Fikkert. When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor and Yourself.
  • Gornick, Mark. R. To Live in Peace: Biblical Faith and the Changing Inner City.
  • Kretzmann, John P. and John L. McKnight. Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets. 
  • Lupton, Bob. Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life: And You Call Yourself a Christian? and Theirs is the Kingdom (Celebrating the Gospel in Urban America). 
  • Mangalwadi, Vishal. Truth and Transformation: A Manifesto for Ailing Nations.
  • McKnight, John. It Takes a Village to Educate a Child (article).
  • Novogratz, Jacqueline. The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World. 
  • Perkins, John. Let Justice Roll Down, With Justice For All (A Strategy for Community Development), Compassion, Justice & the Christian Life, Restoring At-Risk Communities and Beyond Charity (The Call to Christian Community Development).
  • Pohl, Christine.  Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition. 
  • Sacks, Jonathan. The Home We Build Together.
  • Sherman, Amy. More Effective Outreach (article). 
  • Vanier, Jean. Befriending the Stranger.
  • Walsh, Brian and Steven Bouma-Prediger. Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement. 
  • White, Randy. Encounter God in the City: Onramps to Personal and Community Transformation and Journey to the Center of the City.

City Theology/Transformation:

  • Bakke, Ray. A Biblical Word for an Urban World and A Theology as Big as the City.
  • Block. Peter. Community: The Structure of Belonging.
  • Buckingham, Marcus and Donald O. Clifton. Now, Discover Your Strengths.
  • Carnegie, Dale. How to Win Friends and Influence People.
  • Cope, Landa. The Old Testament Template: Rediscovering God's Principles for Discipling All Nations.
  • Covey, Stephen. The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything.
  • Frangipane, Frances. When the Many are One.
  • Fuder, John. A Heart for the City: Effective Ministries to the Urban Community.
  • Fuder, John and Noel Castellanos. A Heart for the Community: New Models for Urban and Suburban Ministry.
  • Hunter, George G. The Celtic Way of Evangelism: How Christianity Can Reach the West...Again.
  • Jenkins, Philip. The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity.
  • Keller, Tim. What is God's Global Urban Mission? (article)
  • Law, Eric. The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb: Spirituality for Leadership in a Multicultural Community.
  • Lee, Charles. Leadership Thoughts About the Future of Denominations (article).
  • Lithicum, Robert. Transforming Power: Biblical Strategies for Making a Difference in Your Community.
  • Lowney, Chris. Heroic Leadership.
  • Maggay, Melba. Transforming Society.
  • Padilla, Rene and Testsunao Yamamori (Editors). The Local Church, Agent of Transformation: An Ecclessiology for Integral Mission.
  • Ruibal, Ruth. Unity in the Spirit.
  • Salter-McNeil, Brenda. A Credible Witness: Reflections on Power, Evangelism and Race.
  • Shelley, Dr. Bruce L. Church History in Plain Language.
  • Swanson, Eric. Ten Paradigm Shifts Toward Community Transformation (article).
  • Swanson, Eric and Sam Williams. To Transform a City, Whole Church, Whole Gospel, Whole City.
  • Van Engen, Charles, Dean Gilliland and Shawn Redford. Announcing the Kingdom: The Story of God's Mission in the Bible
  • Van Engen, Charles and Jude Tiersma-Watson. God So Loves the City.
  • Vanier, Jean. Community and Growth.
  • Winter, Bruce. Seek the Welfare of the City.
  • Wright, Christopher J.H. The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible's Grand Narrative.

(Los Angeles History and Focus)

  • Banham, Reyner. Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies.
  • Bedolla, Lisa Garcia. Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity and Politics in Los Angeles.
  • Davis, Mike. City of Quartz.
  • Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place.
  • Klein, Norman. The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory.
  • Robeck, Cecil (Mel) Jr. Azusa Street: Mission and Revival.
  • Sawhney, Deepak Narang. Unmasking LA: Third Worlds & the City.
  • See, Lisa. On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
  • Takaki, Ronald. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. 
  • Watanabe, Teresa. South LA Latinos and Blacks Unite for Worship, May 2010 (article).

Websites:

"Urbanized" (the film): Who/what designs your city?