The Dallas Justice Revival kicks off two weeks from tomorrow at the Dallas Market Hall. This three-day event will feature the preaching of Zan Holmes, Samuel Rodriguez and Sojourners founder, Jim Wallis (find bios here), and some of the best Christian music you will ever hear. But the revival doesn’t end with final altar call; event participants are committed to long-term goals like advocating for the construction of 700 low-income homes and the creation of twenty-five partnerships between schools and area churches.
In addition, IGNITE Greater Works, “A Best Practices Community Transformation Gathering” will feature practical social ministry workshops the morning and afternoon of Wednesday, November 11th and the morning of Thursday, November 12th. Friends of Justice will have a booth in the Exhibit Hall beginning on Tuesday evening, so drop by and introduce yourself.
This event is uniting Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Evangelical and Mainline Protestant churches around the theme of Christian compassion and the call to put feet to our faith. If you can get to Dallas for this event please make your plans now. This is a free event, but participants are encouraged to register (it just takes a few seconds).
Friends of Justice 
this sounds like another habitat for humanity project. you should see the low-income houses they built in back of my neighborhood. the council stated that the habitat houses should blend in with houses that pre-existed in the area. NO ONE enforced this so what we have is over-crowding, concentrated poverty, all black, with re-zoned school issues being legally debated. this area will be reduced to a high crime district and turned over to section 8 within years. this is the modern day equivaplent of inner city projects which have been razed as whites flight back into our major cities to be closer to their jobs and to eliminate private school costs by re-enrolling their own kind back into the public school system.
if i did not describe your upcoming situation, i bet i came real close. there are 4,250 vacant houses for rent, lease or sale in nashville. habitat offers theirs, interest free to lure all of the victims into their segregated-poverty-stricken traps.
Your point is well taken. Without radical changes in the way our society does its economic business our best-laid ameliorative plans will likely come to grief. On the other hand, you have to start somewhere. The religious community in Dallas can only be expected to unite around a very narrow range of issues. Merely getting people energized is a valuable and indispensable first step. The Revival must have some practical and lasting impact on the life of the city or its just a feel-good excercise. Some of the folks involved at the policy level are well aware of the issues you raise. If the Revival forges new relationships and brings conversation partners together there will be an opportunity to discuss realities on the ground. While we remain apart the subject never comes up.