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."
