Wheaton College Alumni Magazine Winter 2015 | Page 16

Dr. Wayne Gordon ’75, founding
pastor of Lawndale Community
Church and chairman/president
of the Christian Community
Development Association (CCDA),
leads a congregation of over
1,000 worshiping families on

One
Chicago’s West Side.

Neighborhood
at a Time

With a new
Center for Urban
Engagement set
to open in
January, Wheaton
redoubles its
efforts to
prepare students
to join the many
alumni already
working to renew
America’s cities. 

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