That's when I made the commitment to the city. I dropped out of seminary for a year and visited all 77 communities of Chicago, talking to priests, pastors, politicians. I started buying every book on Chicago and tried to understand what was going on here. And they're teaching in 11 languages. You've said that people who are interested in the city shouldn't start just a church, but ministries.
Ministries scratch where people itch, and they generate indigenous leaders and dollars.
If you just start a church, you'll probably plant a church in the image of the planter, and you'll need an outside subsidy and people from outside, which will intimidate the insiders. It doesn't empower the people. Here's where we need partnership. A lot of denominations give a grant to someone to pastor a church. As I learned 25 years ago, that puts my church and me on welfare.