New England Urban Church Planting: Experiencing COVID-19 as a Poor Community with Chip Anderson (Podcast #4)

Early on, as we began this COVID-19 journey, I was asked to be interviewed (again) by Tim at NEU (New England Urban) Church Planting (formerly known as The Philip Center). I was grateful for the chance to share my thoughts and, of course, to talk about CPC in The Hill and our Hill community. 

In this interview I also spend time talking about "Strong Ties" and "Weak Ties" and how these ties are important during non-crises times and crises times (like COVID-19)––and why it is important to have Weak Ties in place before a crisis happens upon us, especially for urban/inner-city churches and churches existing in resource-lacking communities.

This podcast interview is about 35 minutes long, but recaps well the issues facing Hill-like communities in the face of COVID-19.

The first interview can be found here >> Church Planting among the Poor and Empowering the Poor

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