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This is one of several books published in the last two decades that focuses on the specific issues facing church planters targeting African-American communities.

Greenway, Roger S. and Timothy M. Monsma. Cities: Missions’ New Frontier , 2nd Ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2000.

Greenway has written a number of books on urban mission and his books offer a big picture perspective on why urban church planting needs to be a priority.

Grigg, Viv. Cry of the Urban Poor. MARC, a division of World Vision, 1992.

Grigg is now a professor at Azusa Pacific University teaching on urban transformational development. He has written a number of books on the urban poor. This book focuses especially on the need for church planting work among the international urban poor communities, but many of its ideas are relevant to those working with U.S. poor as well. Hiebert, Paul G. and Eloise Hiebert Meneses. Incarnational Ministry: Planting Churches in Band, Tribal, Peasant, and Urban Societies . Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Publishing House, 1995. This book is a classic and provides important sociological insight for those planting churches in urban communities, both in the United States and internationally.

Kyle, John E. ed. Urban Mission: God’s Concern for the City . Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1988.

Overstreet, Don. Sent Out: The Calling, the Character, and the Challenge of the Apostle/Missionary . Bloomington, IN: Crossbooks, 2009. Rev. Overstreet has helped to plant or coach more than 500 churches among the poor during the past fifty years. He currently serves as a church plant strategy coordinator in Los Angeles.

Overstreet, Don and Mark Hammond. God’s Call to the City . Bloomington, IN: Crossbooks, 2011.