Case Studies

“Boston: A Case Study”
Donald Brickley
presented to ASNR, 1986
http://media.premierstudios.com/nazarene/docs/Boston_A%20Case%20Study.pdf

“Ohio’s Major Cities: An Interim Report of An Ongoing Research Project"
Dale Jones
Presented to ANSR, 1986
http://media.premierstudios.com/nazarene/docs/Ohio%27s%20Major%20Cities.pdf

Center City Churches: The New Urban Frontier
edited by Lyle E. Schaller (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993. 187 pp.)
This book features 14 different urban congregations that are each quite different, but as the introduction puts it, “ illustrate the range of what is happening…the presence in the central city of new, old, liberal, evangelical, charismatic, black, Pentecostal, liturgical, nonliturgical, large, very large, immigrant, ex-immigrant, Anglo, African-American, Asian-American, regional, community, racially integrated, independent, denominationally affiliated, low income, middle income, high income, working class, professional class, and socially inclusive churches.

Churches That Make a Difference: Reaching Your Community with Good News and Good Works
Ron Sider, Philip Olson, and Heidi Rolland Unruh (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2002)
For an overview of this book, go to: www.network935.org/reviews/books.html#OverviewofChurchesThatMakeaDifference

No Hiding Place: Empowerment and Recovery for Our Troubled Communities
Cecil Williams, Rebecca Laird (HarperCollins. Paperback edition. 1993). Story of Glide Memorial United Methodist Church, San Francisco, CA

Upon This Rock: The Miracles of A Black Church
Samuel G. Freedman (Perennial: 1994. 384 pp.) Story of St. Paul Community Baptist Church, Brooklyn, NY

“The Nazarene Founders’ Vision for Urban Ministries”
Chapter 4 of To the City with Love, editor Neil Wiseman (A copy of the book is either in your department library or Nazarene Archives. Also, NTS library may have a copy or contact Neil Wiseman.)

“Lay Health Promotion In An Urban Setting”
Coral Andino, Marialena Gant, and Carolyn Klaus Health and Development (1991. Number 3, pp7-11)

“What It Takes to Stay Downtown”
Joel R. Hempel, Leadership Fall, 1987 pp. 124-128