Michael Rhodes

Michael Rhodes is the Director of Community Transformation at the Memphis Center for Urban Theological Studies, where he heads up efforts to equip urban pastors and non-profit leaders with theologically informed tools for community development. Previously, Rhodes served as the Director of Education at Advance Memphis, a neighborhood non-profit offering job training, financial literacy education, GED tutoring, and entrepreneurship support to low-income residents in the South Memphis community that Rhodes and his family call home. He is the author, along with Robby Holt and Brian Fikkert, of Practicing the King’s Economy: Honoring Jesus in How We Work, Earn, Spend, Save, and Give (Baker, 2018).