Podcast : Assignment Detroit : Time Magazine : Revival Church

Time Magazine is expecting something big in Detroit.  The people of this city are crying out for reform.  This is possibly the church’s greatest opportunity in recent history to initiate Biblical transformation in the region.

Revival Church is intently focused on full blown revival and reformation in Detroit.  Here’s a quick podcast on this that I just recorded:

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Monday marked the beginning of what Time Inc. is calling Assignment Detroit, a year-long project to use their full range of media outlets to chronicle the life of the city of Detroit.

In a highly unusual decision for a news organization, Time has purchased a 95-year-old house in Detroit’s historic West Village neighborhood, next to Indian Village. The home will serve as a base of operations for months — and perhaps a couple of years — as Time’s various publications cast a unique spotlight on Detroit and chronicle its increasingly desperate struggle to reinvent itself. A Time reporter has told acquaintances he will move in before the end of summer. People familiar with the project said news coverage would be provided by staffers from several of Time Inc.’s more than 100 magazines, which include Time, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Money, People, Essence and Entertainment Weekly.

Time’s editor-in-chief, John Huey, told the New York Times why the media company wants to focus on Detroit: “It sounds grandiose, but it is one of the great stories of our time,” he said. “Detroit is like a prism on any story you want — social, economic, health care, race, education — it is all there. And it is all there in extremis.”

Consider the seven mountains of influence- they are all on center stage here in Detroit:

1. Spirituality and Church – There are more churches per capita in Detroit than anywhere in nation
2. Family – As jobs are lost, middle class families are devastated and are now frequenting food pantries
3. Education – The Detroit public school deficit tops $150 million- many can’t even afford toilet paper. The new U.S. Secretary of Education on Friday said the federal government has a moral obligation to reform Detroit’s failing city schools.
4. Government and Law – There’s been well documented corruption in the government of Detroit.
5. Media and Communication – Time magazine bought a house here for reporters to stay in for the next year or two to chronicle Detroit’s reformation.  All eyes are on Detroit.
6. Arts and Entertainment  – Hollywood has come here in force. Sam Raimi, director of Spider-man is focusing on Detroit (Spiderman 4 will be filmed in part here), Drew Barrymore, Clint Eastwood and others are filming movies here.
7. Business and Finance – The collapse of the auto industry has been felt around the world.

http://detroit.blogs.time.com

http://michiganmessenger.com/26632/time-magazine-begins-assignment-detroit