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Street Saints: Street Saints takes you through the streets of America 's cities to meet people of faith who are renewing America , one heart at a time. These unsung heroes are putting an arm around abused grade-schoolers and teaching them to read, facing down drug dealers, and giving bullet-pocked neighborhoods hope. They are working creatively as social entrepreneurs, turning gang members into computer programmers and equipping former drug addicts with job and life skills. They are touching the least, the last, and the lost with love. And they are discovering that the transformation is mutual.
This unlikely army of compassion includes reformed crackheads and con men, soccer moms, grade school dropouts and PhDs, former prostitutes and business executives, preachers and ex-gang bangers. Regardless of whether they are black, white, Latino or Asian, Baptist, Catholic, Pentecostal or Presbyterian, street saints are discovering their convictions transcend their denominational, racial, and political boundaries. What they all share is a commitment to renew the soul of our nation. Drawing on eight years of hands-on experience and more than three hundred interviews across the country, Barbara J. Elliott profiles the remarkable people who are street saints, the communities they are renewing, and the motivation that drives them. She analyzes their best practices, their track records, what works and why. But she goes beyond that to tap the wellspring of their conviction, and conveys it compellingly. These stories show faith in action. They provide inspiration for individuals, congregations, and communities that want to join the street saints in doing something meaningful. These people are living illustrations of the words of the quintessential street saint, Mother Teresa: “There are no great deeds, only small deeds done with great love.” Click here for ordering information. |
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