Leadership Revolution: Developing the Vision & Practice of Freedom & Justice

Raise Up the Next Generation of Leaders

When John Perkins first visited Lawndale Community Church in Chicago some thirty years ago, he couldn't help laughing at how little there was to see--a couple of storefronts, a few dilapidated buildings, a handful of teenage kids hanging out, and a crazy young white guy named Wayne Gordon, who told John he was responding to a call from God.

Over the next three decades, the church experienced such a transformation that to call it "monumental" would be an...