Rich Gorman: Outreach from the Ground Up

When Rich and Dori Gorman first came to Chicago’s Edgewater community in January 2011 to plant a new Community Christian Church campus, the couple knew no one in the dense (roughly 300,000 people in three square miles) and diverse (a diaspora of Somali, Burmese, Bhutanese, Bosnian, Russian, Nepali, Iraqi and Latino immigrants, Euro-American and African-American communities, and an LGBT community) area. Since 2012 when Edgewater officially launched, the campus has become a multiethnic, multinational group of 140 regular attendees as the Gormans have focused on what Rich calls the five P’s (Power, Pennies, Parties, Pain, Person of Peace). Read more