Winning the World

104 Wi nn i ng the Wor l d: Fac i l i tat i ng Urban Chur ch P l ant i ng Movement s

1. Failed social projects for America’s poor

a. Civil Rights Movement

b. The Great Society

c. Trickle-Down Economics

d. No-Child-Left-Behind promises

2. Present-day stark examples of the gap between the haves and the have-nots: Hurricane Katrina

3. Breakdown of infrastructures, institutions

a. Housing and urban development

b. Health care and quality of life

c. Lack of investment: deteriorating neighborhoods

d. Broken public systems: education, medical care, political corruption, etc.

e. Deep, growing animosity between city and city hall: the LA riots

4. The urban family’s woes: shattered, broken, neglected, decaying