John 13:34
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you,
so you must love one another.
Amy Sherman
Dr. Amy L. Sherman is a Senior Fellow with Hudson Faith in Communities, and
Urban Ministries Advisor at Trinity Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Charlottesville, Virginia.
She is the founder and former Executive Director of Charlottesville Abundant Life Ministries.
Dr. Sherman is the author of three books, most recently
Restorers of Hope: Reaching the Poor in
Your Community with Church-based Ministrys That Work (Crossway Books, 1997).
Her articles and essays have appeared in PolicyReview, Christianity Today, and several major secular
and Christian publicaions, including
The American Enterprise.
Her two most recent booklets for church leaders are
Establishing a Church-based, Welfare-to-Work
Mentoring Ministry: A Practical "How-to" Guide and
Sharing God's Heart for the Poor:
Meditations for Worship, Prayer, and Service (see our
Links and
Resources page).
She is also the author of the first major national study of the "Charitable Choice" provisions of
the 1996 welfare reform law (the report,
The Growing Impact of Charitable Choice, is avalible
from the Center for Public Justice in Annapolis, MD.) In 1996, Dr. Sherman was named by
Christianity Today as one of the "Top 50 Evangelical Leaders Under Forty."
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