Bob Lupton at Park on Sunday

We are so excited to have Bob Lupton speaking at all three of Park’s church services this Sunday, April 29, 2007 on “Seeking Shalom in the City”, addressing the issue of our response to gentrification in the city, as we continue our series “Missional Living”.

As Park continues to expand, and looks at reaching more and more people as part of our goal to reach one percent of Chicago (30,000 people) in the years to come, we need to come to grips with gentrification and its impact on the well-being of the city of Chicago. Bob speaks from 34 years of experience as a Christian real estate developer and an active member of the CCDA.

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Bob Lupton is a Christian community developer and an entrepreneur who brings together communities of resource with communities of need, and has invested more than 34 years of his life in inner-city Atlanta.     Through Family Consultation Service Urban Ministries, which he directs, he has developed three mixed-income subdivisions, organized two multiracial congregations, started many businesses, created housing for hundreds of families, and initiated a wide variety of human services.

Bob Lupton is on the Board of the Christian Community Development Association and is also the author of several books – Compassion, Justice, and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor, Theirs is the Kingdom: Celebrating the Gospel in Urban America, and Renewing the City: Reflections on Community Development and Urban Renewal. Lupton earned a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Georgia, and he speaks at conferences and churches across the nation.

You can read more about Lupton and Family Consultation Service at http://www.fcsministries.org. To find out more about Park Community Church in Chicago, visit www.parkcommunitychurch.org.

Park Community Church meets at Francis Parker School (map), 2233 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60614 at 9 am, 11 am and 5:30 pm.