- Tear down walls and build bridges towards transformation
- Measure your impact by transformed lives rather than attendance
- Equipping indigenous residents to serve instead of a cycle of being served
- Becoming a learner as well as a teacher
- Resist duplicating ministries to collaborating with existing ministries
- Moving from fellowship (only) to a functional, thriving, and unified friendship
- Stop condemning the city, blaming the church, and pray with them
- Becoming a marketplace ministry rather than only to a local congregation
- Rejecting speculation about the community and engaging Truth & Vision
- See indigenous residents as assets with gifts and talents needed for transformation of their community
John Blake shares his "Heart for City Kids" 
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March 7, 2021 at 9:42 AM
Hunt and Monica Keith
Thanks John,
We are working toward this end. We are seeing some good movement toward real racial reconciliation. We have two GNCs that are in African American churches. There is resistance. We are leaning on Jesus to bring change first to ourselves. I would like to come down to your area and grab a lunch and get some counsel to help us where we are going. What are good days for you during the week, where I might set up to take you to lunch?
Hunt
March 8, 2021 at 10:00 AM
John E. Blake
Thanks for your reply Hunt and the offer to meet for lunch. I’d love to do so. Any day during march is good except March 17th-18th. Let me know. I’ll send this also via text.
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