The Proactive Agenda for Racial Reconciliation DOES NOT take a back seat to injustice and inequality. Instead, it takes an innovative approach to the race problem through the Art of Restoring Relationships divided by race and culture.
Within these pages, the authors disclose a profound narrative history lesson as they trace the historical route leading to America's current racialized state. Jarvis and Chris address the vital issues that separate the races without name-dropping or calling-out individuals which is a classy plausible approach to racial reconciliation. However, they do not deny the demoralizing demeaning, and damaging effects of racism but take a different approach. Some protest, but The Art of restoring Relationships create proactive partnerships that have exponential results. They advocate their White/Black Think Tank as a prelude step for building unity around the issues that divide homogeneous groups before engaging racial reconciliation with other ethnicities.
The Art of Restoring Relationships creates friendships that have exponential effects in the home, church, school, and out into the streets. In a class all by itself, it occupies a niche about race relations that the readers will find unique, interesting, intriguing, and very factual.
No "stones" are left "unturned!" The authors provide a method for "coming together" within the various ethnic groups before engaging racial reconciliation with another race. The book also provides a complete model for multiethnic church planting, church growth, and tools to develop diversity in ministry and business. If you care about the racial issues in our nation and want an answer that works, this book is for you!
The authors Jarvis and Chris bring a combined history of over fifty years in urban ministry and racial reconciliation. Jarvis, a former professor of urban studies adds a scholarship touch to the content and Chris gives the all-business professional touch. They share incredible insights from documented journals and together they paint a creative portrait of why race relations matter to the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe. To read, review, and buy go to www.jjplanterbooks.com and click Editor-in-Chief Books, and Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kindle, Nook, and other book outlets.
The Art of Restoring Relationships explores the CARR Model parameters of Confrontation, Accountability, Reconciliation, and Restoration leading to economic re-development and coop ventures. Their focus is not on systems and institutions of racism, but the therapeutic effects of one-on-one cross-cultural partnerships that spill over into the home, church, and out into the streets.
