Chris Hodges, founder and leader of Church of the Highlands, Alabama’s largest church, announced Sunday that he has teamed up with leaders in the city of Birmingham to help fight crime in one of the city’s most violent neighborhoods through a new innovative church plant to be launched this fall.
“Not too long ago I met with the Birmingham mayor, the new Mayor, Randall Woodfin. What a delightful time I had with him. … The first thing I said to him, ‘Mayor, I have absolutely no agenda. I just want to hear your vision for Birmingham.’ He goes, ‘Are you kidding me? No one ever asks me that.’ I said, ‘I’m asking you.’ And I’m gonna tell you, he shared with me, [in] just one of the most impassioned ways, his love for our city,” Hodges, whose church is headquartered in Birmingham, said during his sermon.
Hodges said Woodfin discussed 99 distinct communities in the Birmingham area and singled out four that he was deeply concerned about.
“He said, ‘Chris, there are four of them that are keeping me up at night….
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