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If you are preparing to do [urban ministry] and you\u2019ve never had a non-white mentor, you are not an [urban minister], you are a colonialist. \u2013 adapted from Soong-chan Rah<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Last week I had the honor of meeting with a group of urban pastors who\u2019ve devoted their lives to serving Buffalo, NY. While discussing the challenges they encountered while doing urban ministry in a predominantly non-white, socio-economically oppressed\u00a0city, the black, Hispanic and Asian pastors with whom I met raised a familiar issue, one that I\u2019ve heard and witnessed all over the country. \u00a0Same story, different city.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Buffalo, like many other urban centers, has faced a shrinking population and declining business interest for decades.<\/span><\/div>\n
But things rapidly changed in December 2013, when NY Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the\u00a0Buffalo Billion Investment Development Plan<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0in which he pledged to invest $1 billion in Buffalo, with the goal of transforming the beleaguered city into a high-tech center. Not surprisingly, suburban folks who\u2019ve long abandoned the city are suddenly eager to return and participate in (cash in on?) the urban renaissance.<\/span><\/div>\n
This doesn\u2019t surprise me one bit. This is how capitalism works in the U.S. empire.<\/span>

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WHEN THE CHURCH WORKS LIKE THE EMPIRE<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
The urban pastors reported that, in the wake of Governor Cuomo\u2019s announcement, many predominantly white, wealthy suburban churches in the area have expressed renewed interest in Buffalo\u2019s urban center. But rather than connecting with the urban pastors who have been doing ministry among the oppressed in Buffalo for years, and looking for ways to support the indigenous leaders\u00a0who are already in place<\/em>, they have simply begun making plans to expand their suburban ministry empires into the urban center. In other words, they\u2019re venturing out into the world of urban church planting.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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