Change From Within -- Empowering Discipleship

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Southeast wasn't the new direction Stacy Spencer had in mind when he was sent a decade ago to start a new congregation in an old church in another part of the city.

But southeast he went in 2001, from Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, the prominent and bountiful Midtown congregation where Dr. Alvin Jackson taught him to preach hope and Dr. Frank Thomas taught him to preach empowerment.

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Change From Within -- Empowering Discipleship

Southeast he went to Hickory Hill, a recently annexed and rapidly changing neighborhood whose white population had declined by half during the previous decade while its black population had increased fivefold.

Spencer, Mississippi Boulevard's young and dynamic

youth minister, knew Hickory Hill was changing demographically, but he didn't realize how rapidly it was declining...

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