Church Planting
Exegetting the Culture 3 basic ways to get to know a place 1. Objectively a. Set up Google alerts b. Use Wikipedia c. Walkscore.com d. American Community survey e. neighborhoodscout.com f. brookings.edu g. thearda.com h. United Way poverty maps -Start with hunches to help you learn the community so you know where to connect with people -Helps you know what type of people are in the community you are at 2. Subjective(Qualitative Research) a. Community walks to see what the people in the community see. -What/How they see - "Image of the City" Kevin Lynch-1960 o Public Art is about real community involvement and collaboration o History matters in old cities -How do residents feel about the change -Where do people congregate to celebrate or protest Paradigm Shifts • Empathy through Strength - Church planters are joining the work that God is already doing Questions to ask: o Who are the people that God has already been using in this area (Historian, Archaeologiest, Exc...