Vulnerable Mission

Author : Jim Harries
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780878086498

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Vulnerable Mission: by Jim Harries Pdf

In this compendium, Jim articulates the impact of the nature and shape of the interface between the West and Africa, and how that interface works or does not work. Read on if you are interested in Africa, mission, development, globalisation, communication, linguistics, theology, dependency, or power dynamics in intercultural perspective. The conclusions reached in the fourteen articles in this compendium endorse Jim’s deepening conviction that some Western missionaries and development workers ought to engage in their ministries in Africa and the majority world using indigenous languages and locally available resources. To this end, Jim and some of his missionary colleagues formed the Alliance for Vulnerable Mission in 2007.

Author : Jim Harries
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630879068

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Theory to Practice in Vulnerable Mission by Jim Harries Pdf

Missionaries from the West like to hit the ground running to solve as many of other people's problems as possible in the increasingly short term they have available for service. Hang on, says Jim Harries! After twenty-four years in Africa, observing how poverty, traditional practices, dependency, and misunderstandings continue, Harries asks, what is the point of bringing solutions that local people cannot reproduce? Harries challenges missionaries and development workers to counter dependency on the West by engaging in sustainable ministry that local people can imitate. This requires some Westerners to work on the basis of local languages and resources, a practice known as vulnerable mission. Rooted in personal experience, founded in a postmodern appreciation of language, drawing on anthropology, based in Christian theology, Harries provides a case for the necessity of vulnerable mission in the twenty-first century.

Author : Jim Harries
Publisher : William Carey Library Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0878085246

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Vulnerable Mission by Jim Harries Pdf

In this compendium, Jim articulates the impact of the nature and shape of the interface between the West and Africa, and how that interface works or does not work. Read on if you are interested in Africa, mission, development, globalisation, communication, linguistics, theology, dependency, or power dynamics in intercultural perspective. The conclusions reached in the fourteen articles in this compendium endorse Jim's deepening conviction that some Western missionaries and development workers ought to engage in their ministries in Africa and the majority world using indigenous languages and locally available resources. To this end, Jim and some of his missionary colleagues formed the Alliance for Vulnerable Mission in 2007.

Author : Jim Harries
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610979443

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Theory to Practice in Vulnerable Mission by Jim Harries Pdf

Missionaries from the West like to hit the ground running to solve as many of other people's problems as possible in the increasingly short term they have available for service. Hang on, says Jim Harries! After twenty-four years in Africa, observing how poverty, traditional practices, dependency, and misunderstandings continue, Harries asks, what is the point of bringing solutions that local people cannot reproduce? Harries challenges missionaries and development workers to counter dependency on the West by engaging in sustainable ministry that local people can imitate. This requires some Westerners to work on the basis of local languages and resources, a practice known as vulnerable mission. Rooted in personal experience, founded in a postmodern appreciation of language, drawing on anthropology, based in Christian theology, Harries provides a case for the necessity of vulnerable mission in the twenty-first century.

Author : Jim Harries
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532669309

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African Heartbeat and A Vulnerable Fool by Jim Harries Pdf

Can a white man thrive living as an African in a village in Africa? Philo’s adventure takes him to the fictional African country of Holima, where he is adopted by an African tribe. Should Philo follow Western wisdom, and cause problems through generous giving? Or can he convince Western people that a vulnerable approach is the best way to reach Africa? Jim Harries’ new novel of Christian fiction is broadly based on his true-life experiences, and shows how God performs his powerful acts through human weakness.

Author : Jim Harries
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532614996

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The Godless Delusion by Jim Harries Pdf

What if the whole "God delusion" approach is a neo-colonial imposition at the linguistic and philosophical level? Could it lead to unmitigated disasters in intercultural communication and development work? This paradigm-challenging book points to the necessity, in light of contemporary impasse in intercultural understanding, of God's involvement in the encounter between the West and the majority world, especially Africa. Failure to account for God, the cradle of imagination operative in human hearts and minds has resulted in a black hole that deeply troubles intercultural engagement between the West and others. While drawing on his personal long-term field experience in Africa, the author cites contemporary scholarly Western literature on philosophy, anthropology, "religion," and beyond. Ironically, the West, which values dualism, instead of seeking to share it with majority world people, wrongly presupposes its universality. A proactive compliance to the countering of "racism" and to the demotion of impacts of human imagination on understanding contribute to this. Effective education must be from known to unknown, this text emphasizes. Enabling African people to build understanding on their own epistemological foundations might be more important than exporting of pre-packaged languages and educational systems from the West.

Author : Daryl M. Balia,Kirsteen Kim
Publisher : OCMS
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Missions
ISBN : 1870345770

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Witnessing to Christ Today by Daryl M. Balia,Kirsteen Kim Pdf

The Centenary of the World Missionary Conference, held in Edinburgh in 1910, is a suggestive moment for many people seeking direction for Christian mission in the twenty-first century. Since 2005 an international group has worked collaboratively to develop an intercontinental and multidenominational project, now known as Edinburgh 2010, and based at New College, University of Edinburgh.

Author : Raleigh Sadler
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781535917988

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Vulnerable by Raleigh Sadler Pdf

There are more than 40 million enslaved people in the world today. This is overwhelming. A number so large leaves us asking, What could I even do to help? In his book Vulnerable: Rethinking Human Trafficking, Raleigh Sadler, president and founder of Let My People Go, makes the case that anyone can fight human trafficking by focusing on those who are most often targeted. This book invites the reader to understand their role in the problem of human trafficking, but more importantly, their role in the solution. Human trafficking can be defined as the exploitation of vulnerability for commercial gain. Using the power of story and candid interviews, Sadler seeks to discover how ordinary people can fight human trafficking by recognizing vulnerability and entering in. As vulnerable people, we can empower other vulnerable people, because Christ was made vulnerable for us.

Author : Stan Chu Ilo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621891000

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The Church and Development in Africa by Stan Chu Ilo Pdf

In this book Stan Ilo offers an integral theology of development and creatively lays the groundwork for Christian humanitarian and social ministry in Africa. Ilo proposes a vulnerable missional praxis through a social analysis informed by the gospel, which promises to enrich the ways Catholic and Christian charities worldwide carry out their humanitarian work and engage in aid and development initiatives in developing countries of Africa and among the poor in different parts of the world. Ilo offers a comprehensive and systematic presentation of Catholic social ethics in relation to human rights, ecology, globalization, international cooperation, development and aid, human and cultural development, business ethics, social justice, and the challenges of poverty eradication.

Author : Ilo, Stan Chu
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9781608337316

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A Poor and Merciful Church by Ilo, Stan Chu Pdf

This important text addresses three key questions which face modern Catholicism, especially in Africa: What is the ecclesiology of Pope Francis? How does this ecclesiology meet the challenges facing the universal church in today's complex world? And how can one translate the practices of this new approach into a theological aesthetics to meet the challenges and opportunities of the African social context?

Author : Barbara Leonhard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Bible
ISBN : UCSD:31822018921437

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Vulnerability in Cross-cultural Mission by Barbara Leonhard Pdf

Author : Nicole Wilke,Jason Johnson
Publisher : Credo House Publishers
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1625862105

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Mission Wise by Nicole Wilke,Jason Johnson Pdf

Have you ever been on a short-term mission trip and felt uncomfortable, wondering if you're really making a long-term impact? Do you want to understand what the best practices are when it comes to serving children, families, and communities in other countries? Do you ever wonder if your current global missions are hurting more than they are helping? Does changing your strategy seem complicated and confusing? IF SO . . . THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU. Perhaps you're wrestling with a mission strategy that doesn't change much year after year--continuing forward in the way your church has "always done it." You want to see change, to set a clear and compelling global engagement strategy for your church moving forward, but you don't know where to start. You genuinely want to serve vulnerable children, families, and communities around the world with wisdom, excellence, and dignity, but how? It feels overwhelming at times, right? We want to make it simple. This book curates some of today's best practices, principles, and people to give you the clarity and confidence you need take your next best step forward in your global missions strategy. Through a dynamic integration of Scripture and science, you'll discover what the most current research says about best practices for global engagement in things like short-term mission trips, child sponsorship programs, forming strategic partnerships, family-based care of children and more, you'll be encouraged by how that scientific research works to affirm what Scripture has already established as true and right about caring for the vulnerable--and you'll be inspired by new ideas and fresh vision as you to take your next best steps forward in caring for the most vulnerable around the world.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:30000088111467

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Second Supplemental Appropriation Bill, 1974 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Tranzillo
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813220116

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John Paul II on the Vulnerable by Jeffrey Tranzillo Pdf

In John Paul II on the Vulnerable, Jeffrey Tranzillo provides a lucid introduction to John Paul II's philosophical and theological understanding of the human person.

Author : John L. Kessell
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816504879

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Friars, Soldiers, and Reformers by John L. Kessell Pdf

The Franciscan mission San José de Tumacácori and the perennially undermanned presidio Tubac become John L. Kessell's windows on the Arizona–Sonora frontier in this colorful documentary history. His fascinating view extends from the Jesuit expulsion to the coming of the U.S. Army. Kessell provides exciting accounts of the explorations of Francisco Garcés, de Anza's expeditions, and the Yuma massacre. Drawing from widely scattered archival materials, he vividly describes the epic struggle between Bishop Reyes and Father President Barbastro, the missionary scandals of 1815–18, and the bloody victory of Mexican civilian volunteers over Apaches in Arivaipa Canyon in 1832. Numerous missionaries, presidials, and bureaucrats—nameless in histories until now—emerge as living, swearing, praying, individuals. This authoritative chronicle offers an engrossing picture of the continually threatened mission frontier. Reformers championing civil rights for mission Indians time and again challenged the friars' "tight-fisted paternalistic control" over their wards. Expansionists repeatedly saw their plans dashed by Indian raids, uncooperative military officials, or lack of financial support. Frairs, Soldiers, and Reformers brings into sharp focus the long, blurry period between Jesuit Sonora and Territorial Arizona.