Downtown Church : Heart Of The City

Many in our day think that it is no longer possible to have big, strong,vital, influentail, mission-minnded downtown congregation. Those who predict the end of downtown churches will point to the suburbanization of Anglo populations, the erosion of inherited institutuinal loyalties, the decline of public transportations, the lack of interest by a younger generation in Sunday evening worship, the deterioration of central city public school systems, the fear of crime, the closing of downtown department stores along with the rise of shopping malls, and so on.