The Little Green Wisdom Book: 9 Growth Stages of Leadership: How to Transform the Power of a Thrift Mindset(R) into Achieving Personal Success (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781482727623)

John Elliott Churchville, Ph.D., J.D., CLU, ChFC is an author, community activist, educator, leadership coach, theologian, and attorney. He is Senior Pastor of Liberation Fellowship Church of Jesus, Chairman & CEO of Liberation Fellowship Community Development Corporation, and President of the Greater Germantown Business Association, Inc In 2011, because of his innovative community organizing work in Southwest Georgia, the Mississippi Delta and Philadelphia, PA, from the 1960s to the present, John was chosen to be interviewed and videographed for the joint Civil Rights History Project of the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution. His 2 1/2 hour interview has been archived at the National Museum of African American History and Culture which is scheduled to open during 2015 in Washington, DC. His experience and background include: civil rights voter registration work in the South in the early 1960s; creating and head-mastering an independent school for inner-city youth from the early 1960s until the late 1970s; functioning as the director of a national criminal justice program and fundraiser for the American Friends Service Committee from the late 1970s to the early 1980s; developing a financial services, insurance and securities brokerage firm and Registered Investment Advisory service from the early to late-1980s; serving as a farm-workers' rights, criminal defense, Elderlaw, estate planning and corporate affairs attorney throughout the 1990s; and functioning as an environmental and social justice advocate, leadership/organizational development and strategic planning consultant since 2004. John received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Services Administration from Antioch University and his law degree from Rutgers School of Law. He received his theological training at Lutheran Theological Seminary, and received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Canterbury University. A frequent keynote speaker, teacher and leadership coach, John discusses a broad range of diverse topics that include: Personal and Organizational Leadership Development; Biblical Leadership Principles; Diversity; Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement; Developing a Thrift Mindset(R); The Principle-Centered Leadership Paradigm; and Mastering Personal and Organizational Change. He also serves in the varying contexts of congregational ministry, conference, seminar, workshop, and university class formats.