2016 National Gathering Keynote: Bob Lupton

Bob Lupton, author of Toxic Charity, presents the first keynote of the 2016 National Gathering.

 

Bob Lupton has invested over 40 years of his life in inner-city Atlanta. In response to a call that he first felt while serving in Vietnam, he left a budding business career to work with delinquent urban youth. Bob and his wife Peggy and their two sons sold their suburban home and moved into the inner-city where they have lived and served as neighbors among those in need. Their life’s work has been the rebuilding of urban neighborhoods where families can flourish and children can grow into healthy adults. Through Focused Community Strategies Urban Ministries – a non-profit organization which he founded – he has developed two mixed income subdivisions, organized a multi-racial congregation, started a number of businesses, created housing for hundreds of families and initiated a wide range of human services in his community. Bob’s new book, Charity Detox, draws on his many decades of experience, and outlines how to structure programs that actually improve the quality of the life of the poor and disenfranchised.