How to Become a Literacy Church
Please join this heartfelt discussion with Doug Kempton. Doug is the Pastor of Grace Community Church in Detroit, Michigan. This is a ‘nuts and bolts’ conversation about the structures and systems to launch, build and sustain a literacy outreach program in any church.
Grace Community Church is an enthusiastic and successful Literacy Church. Doug has been serving his congregation and the children of Detroit for decades. He is also the founder of SOAR Detroit (soardetroit.com), an organization that provides tutoring to help kids flourish. He is also the pastor of a “Literacy Church.”
Tony and Doug explore their shared passion behind the issue of literacy, discussing its systemic impact of illiteracy in Detroit that posts a 13% reading proficiency among its young people. Doug, pulling from the deep well of his experience, talks about the impact of reading mentorship in his church, the accessible and universal opportunity that tutoring provides for people from all stages of life AND the resulting positive outcomes in the lives of students, mentors and churches alike.