When you get involved with city ministry, you're in for some adventures--and you see God at work! Randy and Tina White, with their two young sons, left suburbia to join believers living in a disadvantaged area of Fresno, California. Through their family's story you will learn more about God's heart for the city, meet some of the people who live there, and discover ways you might make a difference too. Discussion questions, twelve Bible studies on God and the city, and a list of "21 Things You Can Do to Love the City" will help you dig even further into the topic. And they make Journey to the Center of the City an ideal book for small group discussion and action!

Journey to the Center of the City: Making A Difference in an Urban Neighborhood

History

Randy White

Americas

History of Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club: 2006 USGA Junior Amateur Championship

Tecolote Publications

Blood Transparencies: An Autobiography in Verse is a brutally honest narrative of coming-of-age in a unique American family. Told in a series of poetic vignettes, it details life with a father who believes John Muir's words more essential than the Bible, often leading his ''tribe'' on harsh quests into America's wildernesses. The tale is both humorous and heart breaking. Imagine Odysseus returned from WWII to teach his son the subtle art of bone breaking before sharing hot cocoa and opera. This is a family as at ease with nurturing abandoned wild animals as around a campfire rapt to ancestral stories of cannibalism. Throughout the book there is an occasional photographic relic, or Neolithic scrawl to memorialize the breadth of this human story. There are echoes here too, like the ''transparencies'' of the title, of mythology and tall tales, an oral tradition transcendent of the printed page. Blood Transparencies is a stunningly fresh glance back, far back, from whence we've all come.

Blood Transparencies: An Autobiography in Verse

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Blue Oak Press

This book, written by a former lifelong evangelical, provides a short history of fundamentalism and evangelicalism, and explains the dangers of today's evangelical mess. It describes what a fundamentalist is, and gives encouragement to evangelicals to depart from evangelicalism and join the fundamental movement. It is an encouragement to fundamentalists to strengthen their theology in four key areas to distinguish themselves from the dangerous evangelical drift.

Why I Am a Fundamentalist: and You Should be Too!

Dispensational Publishing House, Inc.

“Old man ranting” -seminary professor “Twisted thinking” -Baptist pastor “Just what I’ve been thinking” -man in the pew The reviews are in! The “average folk” of evangelicalism will agree with this book. The leaders and vision-casters and dream-makers of evangelicalism will hate it. This book will make you mad at times, sad at other times, and hopefully give voice to your concerns. The author has often written and spoken about the dangers of evangelicalism, its cousin ecumenicalism, and its parent, the church-growth movement. In this hard-hitting book, he spells out the confusion of the evangelical movement. And even more, he points out the manipulative manner of the movement, and the danger it posses to your family, your church, and your community. If you are comfortable with things as they now stand in local churches, skip this book. If you are looking to put words to your frustrations about the direction of Christian ministry in the United States and much of the western world, then this may be the book for you. The book is, according to its author, “an equal opportunity offender.”

Evangelical Garbage: How Evangelicalism is Confused, Manipulative, and Downright Dangerous