The Vision of Dr. Tony Evans

As a boy growing up in the inner city of Baltimore, Maryland, I experienced firsthand the challenges that urban kids face in trying to rise above the poverty, family disintegration, violence, promiscuity and chemical addictions that breed hopelessness in so many of our young people and their families. Government has spent trillions of dollars to reverse and elevate this spiral of social disintegration, yet the problems and pain grow worse with each passing day.

I believe the reason for this is the separation of the spiritual from the social. There is a horrific disconnect between the role of the church on Sunday and the condition of hurting people on Monday. This changed in my own life and family when my father discovered the life-giving power of faith and began operating differently because of it. Our home became different from most of the other homes in my neighborhood because the connection had been made between the spiritual and the social.

The National Church Adopt-A-School Initiative (NCAASI) started because I never forgot the turnaround that occurred in my own life and family when a spiritual system of belief became the foundation for my decisions, and when I saw the link between faith in God and good works for the improvement of my life and the lives of others. Through NCAASI, we seek to multiply over and over the transformation that happened to me in the lives of hundreds of thousands at-risk youth and their families throughout urban America.    More »