Sharing God's Love With the Prospect Area Community

Amy 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 the founder and former Executive Director of Charlottesville Abundant Life Ministries. Dr. Sherman is currently a Senior Fellow at the Sagamore Institute for Policy Research and Director of the Center on Faith in Communities at the Foundation for American Renewal. She also serves as the Editorial Director for FASTEN (the Faith and Service Technical Education Network), and Urban Ministries Advisor at Trinity Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Charlottesville, Virginia. She is the author of four books, most recently Reinvigorating Faith in Communities (Hudson Institute, 2002). Her 70+ articles and essays have appeared in such diverse publications as Policy Review, Christianity Today, Philanthropy, and The Washington Times. 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. 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 available 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."