Jim's Quote of the Month: August 2017
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While you guys up on the Northside in your gated communities are talking, houses are on fire down here."-Rev. Dr. Darryl WebsterEmmanuel Missionary Baptist ChurchThose words pierced my heart. It wasn't good enough to just talk about the problems of multi-generational poverty, sky-high unemployment, poor education, drugs, mental health issues and more while people in our urban core were suffering. I knew that God was speaking to me through Darryl, so it was time to step out of my comfort zone and for Nancy and me to jump in to do our part in the effort to transform our city.At UNITE INDY we're working every day to undergird our city's urban ministries, because they need our support now more than ever. Our city can be a shining light to the rest of the country.Yours in Christ,Jim"...With God, all things are possible" - Matthew 19:26
While you guys up on the Northside in your gated communities are talking, houses are on fire down here."
-Rev. Dr. Darryl Webster
Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church
Those words pierced my heart. It wasn't good enough to just talk about the problems of multi-generational poverty, sky-high unemployment, poor education, drugs, mental health issues and more while people in our urban core were suffering. I knew that God was speaking to me through Darryl, so it was time to step out of my comfort zone and for Nancy and me to jump in to do our part in the effort to transform our city.
At UNITE INDY we're working every day to undergird our city's urban ministries, because they need our support now more than ever. Our city can be a shining light to the rest of the country.
Yours in Christ,
Jim
"...With God, all things are possible" - Matthew 19:26
About Jim Cotterill
Jim Cotterill co-founded 2nd Chance Indiana (as UNITE INDY) in late 2016. After a decade as the founding president of National Christian Foundation Indiana following several years developing a chain of Business Journals across the country, he and his wife, Nancy, were led to serve those coming out of long term incarceration by helping them find and keep jobs that pay a living wage. Jim and Nancy believe that, through the dignity of work, reentrants' lives can be changed and their families can be lifted out of poverty.
