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City Leadership would like to thank each and every attendee who came to the Urban Summit this past weekend. Many of you asked for the slides to be available from David Montague's presentation on urban community education. We would like to make these available to you, and encourage you to share with others. Read More »
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Michael A. Mata has administered and designed ministry and community programs for nearly twenty-five years, particularly in the areas of community transformation, urban youth ministry, congregational redevelopment, intercultural outreach, leadership development and Latino ministry. He is the Urban Development Director for World Vision U.S. Programs. He is the former director of the Urban Leadership Institute and the Mildred M. Hutchinson Assistant Professor of Urban Ministry at the Claremont School of Theology. Michael served seventeen years as part of the pastoral team at Los Angeles First Church of the Nazarene ...Read More »
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David Montague is the director of the Memphis Teacher Residency. Prior to the MTR, David served for two years with Campus Crusade with Christ in East Asia. From 2000-2005, David was the Director of Service Over Self, an urban home-repair ministry. From 1987-2000, David was a Managing Director with Morgan Keegan, an investment brokerage firm. David has been married to Kelli Montague for 19 years and they have five daughters. This video explains more about MTR: David will be speaking at The Urban Summit on Saturday. Click here to attend this event where discussions will focus on biblical justice, ...Read More »
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Bob Lupton has invested almost 40 years of his life in inner-city Atlanta. In response to a call that he first felt while serving in Vietnam, he left a budding business career to work with delinquent urban youth. Bob and his family sold their suburban home and moved into the inner-city where they have lived and served as neighbors among those in need. His life’s work has been the rebuilding of urban neighborhoods where families can flourish and children can grow into healthy adults. Bob is a Christian community developer, ...Read More »
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On Monday, 28 college students from Iowa and Texas met up at Peabody Elementary in Cooper Young to do several projects around the campus. These students came to Memphis in partnership with the Choose 901 campaign. Team One worked all day building garden boxes that had been awarded to the school with a grant. By the end of the day, the boxes were installed on the play yard and were full of soil, ready for students to begin the planting. Team Two sanded ...Read More »
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News Channel 3 met up with John Carroll of City Leadership and Tim Reid to discuss the Choose 901 campaign. [From www.wreg.com] “Eventually these twenty year olds that we already have and the twenty year olds that we would recruit to the city, would eventually be the leadership of Memphis in 2020 to 2040,” said City Leadership Executive Director John Carroll. Twenty three year old Tim Reid now calls Memphis home after graduating from West Virginia in May. He's employed, living in midtown and involved, “I would say keep ...Read More »
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John M. Perkins is a sharecropper’s son who grew up in New Hebron, Mississippi amidst dire poverty. Fleeing to California at age 17 after his older brother’s murder at the hands of a town marshal, he vowed never to return. However after converting to Christianity in 1960 he returned to Mendenhall, Mississippi to share the gospel of Christ. While in Mississippi, his outspoken nature and support and leadership in civil rights demonstrations resulted in repeated harassment, beatings and imprisonment. In 1983, Perkins and his wife, along with a few friends ...Read More »
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On Wednesday March 7th the City Leadership Spring Forum Series continued with guest Mayor Mark Luttrell who discussed the topic of complex problems, and what leaders in Memphis need on their teams to help solve those complex problems. Several people with diverse leadership roles in Memphis attended the forum and were able to meet, network, and discuss challenges that face them in their current roles of leadership. One of these attendees was Josh Spickler, of the Shelby County Public Defender's Office. ...Read More »
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Memphis Center for Urban Theological Studies (MCUTS) seeks a Student Success Director Over the last two years, MCUTS enrollment has grown significantly, therefore this new part time, evening position has been created to help empower students. Candidates should be highly organized, relational, and ready to join the team to ensure students are equipped for success in their program. If you're excited about equipping others for ministry and can commit a minimum of one year to the organization, this may be the position for you! Schedule: - Part time: average 22-26 hrs per ...Read More »
