Creative Ways to Build Christian Community is exactly what its title says it is: a very personal, practical response to the present and future prospect of isolation, a treasure trove of examples and suggestions about how to accomplish the Great Commission from community builders telling how, over the years and the ministries, they have implemented creative ways to build up churches and organizations to develop more intensive Christian fellowship and, thereby, create community. --Dr. William David Spencer
Jeanne DeFazio is the author of
Keeping the Dream Alive: A Reflection on the Art of Harriet Lorence Nesbit; coauthor of
How to Have an Attitude of Gratitude on the Night Shift with Teresa Flowers and
Letting Go; and editor of
Berkeley Street Theatre: How Improvisation and Street Theater Emerged as a Christian Outreach to the Culture of the Time. She also edited
Specialist Fourth Class John Joseph DeFazio: Advocating for Disabled American Veterans,
The Commission,
Finding a Better Way,
Otto & The White Dove, and was the coeditor of
Creative Ways to Build Christian Community,
Redeeming the Screens,
Empowering English Language Learners, and
An Artistic Tribute to Harriet Tubman. She is a contributing author to
Christian Egalitarian Leadership and to
Jesus Among the Homeless.
Check out my book trailer for
Creative Ways to Build Christian Community here!
John P. Lathrop holds a MA in Urban Ministry from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is an ordained minister with the International Fellowship of Christian Assemblies and author of four books:
Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, and Teachers Then and Now (2008);
The Power and Practice of the Church: God, Discipleship, and Ministry (2010);
Answer the Prayer of Jesus: A Call for Biblical Unity (2011); and
Dreams & Visions: Divine Interventions in Human Experience (2012).
William David Spencer (ThD, Boston University School of Theology) is Ranked Adjunct Professor of Theology and the Arts at the Boston Campus of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is the author of
Mysterium and Mystery: The Clerical Crime Novel, Dread Jesus, Name in the Papers: An Urban Adventure Novel, and coeditor of
Chanting Down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader.