Neighborhood Initiative and Lynn Cory

The Vision: “Taking the whole gospel to the whole city, one neighborhood at a time.”

I have been a pastor since 1969 and served to support two senior pastors in their ministries for almost 40 years. I can empathize and understand the difficulties of a senior pastor and the difficulties of moving a congregation to become incarnational.

Here’s why I can help:

1. My wife and I have been involved in loving our actual neighbors for fifty years and have encouraged neighbors in our own neighborhoods to become active in loving their neighbors.

2. In 2008, I invited those in our congregation to become active in loving neighbors (many of their stories are in Neighborhood Initiative).

3. Eventually, other pastors in our city became interested in what our congregation was doing in neighborhoods, and I helped them get started with their congregation.

4. In time, I received referrals from pastors who recommended me to other pastors to help them initiate this kind of work in their communities (many of their stories are in The Incarnational Church and in the video section).

5. Over the last ten years I have written five books on the subject matter to assist pastors and leaders to move their congregations toward being a part of Jesus’ grassroots movement.

6. Today, I am involved in coaching pastors in the neighboring movement. This has all been the Lord’s doing.

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Books by Lynn Cory