Resurrecting Hope [Hardcover]

John M. Perkins (Author), Jo Kadlecek (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 167 pages
• Publisher: Regal Books (July 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0830717757
• ISBN-13: 978-0830717750
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,482,880 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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. He again was arrested in 2005 year while protesting in Washington D.C. against U. S. Government defunding of programs aiding the poor.

In Mendenhall, Perkins and his wife, Vera Mae, founded Voice of Calvary Ministries. This Christian community development ministry started a church, health center, leadership development program, thrift store, low-income housing development, and training center. From this ministry, other development projects started in the neighboring towns of Canton, New Hebron and Edwards. Philip K. Reed, the previous pastor of Voice of Calvary Fellowship, has assumed the leadership of this dynamic ministry.

In 1982, the Perkins family returned to California and lived in the city of Pasadena where Perkins and his wife founded Harambee Christian Family Center in Northwest Pasadena, a neighborhood that had one of the highest daytime crime rates in California. Harambee is yet standing, running numerous programs including after school tutoring, Good News Bible Clubs, an award-winning technology center, summer day camp, youth internship programs, and a college scholarship program.

In 1983, while yet in California, Perkins and his wife, along with a few friends and other major supporters, established the John M. Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation & Development, Inc for the sole purpose of supporting their mission of advancing the principles of Christian community development and racial reconciliation throughout the world.

His many books include the memiors "Love is the Final Fight", "Follow Me to Freedom," "Welcoming Justice," the autobiography "Let Justice Roll Down", "With Justice for All", "A Quiet Revolution" and "Linking Arms, Linking Lives".

Visit www.jmpf.org for more information

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4.0 out of 5 stars Resurrecting Hope offers a ministry model often ignored., December 7, 1998

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This review is from: Resurrecting Hope (Hardcover)

John Perkins impressed his cry to support his 3Rs (reconciliation, relocation and redistribution) on me years ago during a pre-Promise Keepers rally held at a church headquarters on Chicago's Greater Westside. I applaud his drive in making his concern for true reconciliation and accountability of all Christians an international one. I recently met two Christian leaders who expressed the impact John Perkins has had on them. One, a Trinity Evangelical Divinity School classmate, has convinced his wife to relocate into a low-income, high crime area in order to better serve the community to which they minister. The other is a former, drug-addict, who attempted suicide. After being regenerated in Christ, he and his family joined a ministry in Chicago's Lawndale community strongly impacted by John Perkins. He serves as a chaplain for drug addicts seeking deliverance in Christ. Perkins' hope strikes again and again.