Gods forever family is a well organized history of the jesus people movement in america larry eskridge provides a readable account from the movements inception in san francisco to its outgrowth nationwide nearly any city of any size would come to have a jesus people inspired coffee house. Abstract a unique combination of the hippie counterculture and evangelical christianity the jesus people movement first appeared amid 1967s famed summer of love in san francisco and grew like wildfire in southern california and in cities like seattle atlanta and milwaukee. Gods forever family is a well organized history of the jesus people movement in america larry eskridge provides a readable account from the movements inception in san francisco to its outgrowth nationwide nearly any city of any size would come to have a jesus people inspired coffee house. Gods forever family the jesus people movement in america by larry eskridge oxford 2013 386 pages reviewed by david w gill wwwdavidwgillorg larry eskridges study of the jesus people movement of the mid sixties through the seventies won a recent book award from christianity today eskridge has been on the staff of the institute for the study of american evangelicals at wheaton . Gods forever family is the first major attempt to re examine the jesus people phenomenon in over thirty years it reveals that it was one of the most important american religious movements of the second half of the 20th century not only did the jesus movement produce such burgeoning new evangelical groups as calvary chapel and the vineyard movement but the jesus people paved the way for the