Building Relationships, Developing Community
Urban Resurrection is a community development initiative with the vision to transform urban neighborhoods through weaving the fabric of Christ centered community.
In July of 2005, Michael and Erika Philip and Laurie Cook moved to West Coconut Grove in Miami to partner with local community leaders and ministries to begin an assest based community development ministry focused on using a wholistic approach to breaking down the cycle of poverty in this at-risk neighborhood.
Their Vision is to transform lives through weaving the fabric of Christ centered community in the urban neighborhoods and cities of the world.
Made up of a core teams of three (Michael, Erika and Laurie), Urban Resurrection is training local residents and young people do be a significant catalyst for transformation in their community. They identify and eradicate the roots of socioeconomic decay by wholistically meeting the spiritual and physical needs of the West Grove community.
The Strategy is to bring about Christ centered wholistic transformation in West Coconut Grove by empowering residents to organize, plan for, create and sustain a vibrant, high quality and diverse neighborhood in collaboration with community partners.
We accomplish evangelism (to see the lost and forgotten come to belief in and commitment to Jesus as savior and Lord), through friendship in the context of community development.
