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book coverWelcome to the Submerge Book website.

 

If you're looking for more information about the new book by author John B. Hayes, you've come to the right place. This website will help you get connected with everything that is Sub-Merge.

 

From the cover...

 

It's time to change the face of poverty, to live our faith authentically and to get involved with the people who need help. It's time to sub-merge ourselves, to go deep--beneath the surface of shallow living--and make a difference in our world!

 

Follow author John Hayes as he lives out his faith on some of the toughest streets and poorest ghettos in the world. Learn what real compassion looks like in the trenches. Discover why people of faith cannot ignore the poor and how the St. Francis model of compassion can help alleviate suffering today.

 

You'll also be energized to action through an inside look at the workings of InnerCHANGE, a mission organization that seeks to work among the poor, rather than just offering aid and handouts. Readers will come away with practical ways they can work for justice and find significance in the process.

 

HOW TO BUY IT

 

The book is available at Amazon.com or directly from Regal Books online at www.regalbooks.com or by calling (800) 446-7735.

 

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING...

Article from Orange County Register (Mar 07, 2007)
Article from Los Angeles Times (Jan 20, 2007)
Article from Orange County Register (Jan 17, 2007)
John Hayes will take you on a trip you will never forget--from San Francisco to Calcutta and Caracas. You will travel in the company of the contemporary Franciscans of InnerCHANGE. They are ordinary people who have taken the call to follow Christ very seriously, devoting their lives to work with some of our poorest neighbors. You will travel to neighborhoods never visited by the tour buses. You will meet the kind of people Jesus hung out with and cared for.Most of all sub-merge will challenge you to the core to consider following Christ in ways that will change your life.

- Tom Sine, Mustard Seed Associates
John Hayes powerfully communicates the impact that global realities have had on him.Through vivid stories and jarring statistics, Hayes shows how the poverty of affluence has overtaken the materialistic West so that two-thirds of the world's population is invisible to us. Sub-merge compels me to stop floating and to dive deep into bringing the love of Christ to the least of these.

- Scottie May, Professor, Wheaton College
Sub-merge is a very significant book, and whilst the particular model of incarnational ministry in the book has been articulated and tested in the white heat contexts of missions to the poorest of the poor, the missional implications of this book extend well beyond the scope of urban mission, to that of missions in general and missions to the West in particular. The fact that this book is written by a courageous,highly articulate, genuinely apostolic practitioner only makes it more appealing and convincing. A must-read for those searching for sustainable ways to meaningfully reach across cultural barriers wherever they might be.

- Alan Hirsch, Author, The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating The Missional Church
God is stirring in the ruins of the "real world," saying again as to St. Francis, "Rebuild my church." John Hayes, backed by a choir of InnerCHANGE storytellers, tells of a new missional order celebrating God's good news in the abandoned places of the world. Those of us who care about the future of the Church need to hear what they've been learning there . . . and join the party.

-Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove, Cofounder, Rutba House