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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
About the author
Jeanne C. DeFazio holds a MA in Religion from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. She is currently an Athanasian Teaching Scholar at Gordon-Conwell's Center for Urban Ministerial Education, in Boston and a coauthor, with Teresa Flowers, of
How to Have an Attitude of Gratitude on the Night Shift (2011).
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).
