Theme
Every urban street has a distinct soul, memory, and cultural density that must be exegeted before mission can bear fruit. Through the lens of "The Boulevard" (MyBLVD), Lewis teaches leaders to embrace the history, pain, and resilience of inner-city neighborhoods. A reader learns how to move past drive-by charitable paternalism into permanent rootedness, discovering that the people living on the boulevard are not projects to be saved, but image-bearers capable of leading spiritual revival.
Dhati Lewis is the founding pastor of Blueprint Church in Atlanta, the founder and president of the Rebuild Initiative (MyBLVD), and the former Vice President and President of the North American Mission Board's Send Network. Born and raised in California as the son of an NFL player, he came to Texas on a football scholarship to the University of North Texas, where an emerging call to ministry — through football chaplaincy and college ministry — set him on a path toward urban disciple-making. After a Master's in Cross-Cultural Ministry at Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, he moved to Atlanta in 2009 with roughly twenty-five others to plant Blueprint Church on the conviction that the church "is not like family; it is family," and that disciple-making — not church-planting — is the true engine of multiplication.
