EFREM SMITH is an internationally recognized African-American leader and highly charismatic speaker. He is the former pastor of the Sanctuary Covenant Church and board chair of the Sanctuary Community Development Corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is now superintendent of the Pacific Southwest Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) denomination, located in Concord, California, and the author of Raising Young Heroes and The Hip-Hop Church.

A blueprint for missional, multi-ethnic Christian community
Efrem Smith, an internationally recognized and innovativeAfrican-American leader, offers a workable plan for connectingtheology, practical ministry models, and real stories of people inmulti-ethnic Christian communities. Using the example of Jesus,Smith develops a theology of multi-ethnic and missional leadership.Embracing urban and ethnic subcultures such as hip-hop, this bookprovides a rich mix of multi-ethnic church development,reconciliation theology, missional church thinking, and Christiancommunity.
* Provides a common-sense approach to creating a multi-ethnicChristian community
* Includes practical ministry models and real stories of peoplewho are members of thriving multi-ethnic congregations
* Author is acclaimed African-American thought leader who plantedand led a multi-ethnic churches of close to 1,000 and now leads aregional division of a denominational committed to ethnic,multi-ethnic, and missional churches
This book is written for anyone wrestling with what it means tobe a Christian in an increasingly multi-ethnic world polarized byclass, politics, and race.