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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Breaking up a gunfight taught Deel that offering people trust is even more vital than food itself.
Chapter 2: Serving on the Westside compelled Pastor Deel to totally rethink his views on poverty.
Chapter 3: Deel and his family left the leafy suburbs behind to fully commit to their dream.
Chapter 4: A distressing encounter pushed Deel to face the biggest challenge of his career yet.
Chapter 5: Hurricane Katrina posed a test that let City of Refuge truly prove themselves.
Chapter 6: Over the years, City of Refuge evolved into a full-fledged professional organization.
Chapter 7: Success is best gauged and honored in small steps, not sweeping transformations.
Chapter 8: Trust is contagious.
Description
Trust First (2019) recounts Pastor Bruce Deel’s remarkable journey to creating City of Refuge. Since its founding in 1997, this innovative social project has helped thousands of the most vulnerable people in Atlanta, Georgia and has been emulated by NGOs around the world. Deel reveals how the policy of offering unconditional trust allowed him to build meaningful relationships, completely transform his ideas about poverty, and learn what it means to provide support to people in crisis.
Who Should Listen
- Burned-out activists looking for new ways to transform communities
- Curious Christians who want to learn about one of America’s most inspiring pastors
- People who love memoirs – or simply a good tale of triumph over adversity