Author: Sally Nash
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1784503894
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Drawing on current scholarship and research by authors with experience of a range of International contexts who are experts in their field, this accessible guide focuses on approaches that encourage spiritual, physical, mental and emotional development in children. By outlining a range of lenses through which readers can reflect on their ministry with children and their families. this book offers inspiration to help them improve their practice. Up-to-date research and thinking provides a fresh and flexible understanding of work with children and families. It also prepares readers to develop and support a team that can take responsibility for the key areas needed in an effective children's ministry. With each chapter featuring practice examples, relevant theory, theological reflections, opportunities for contemplation and suggestions for further reading, Re-Thinking Children's Work in Churches is an accessible and indispensable guide for those wishing to focus on the holistic development of the child.

Author: Vladimir Ubeivolc
Publisher: Langham Monographs
ISBN: 1783681047
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Following a paradigm shift in his own personal understanding of mission, Vladimir Ubeivolc proposes the adoption of mission principles based on missio Dei to meet the social and spiritual needs of people in Moldova. Biblically grounded and insightful, the lessons to be learned from this book apply far beyond Eastern Europe. Dr Ubeivolc uses his knowledge from six years of research, twenty years of pastoral ministry and a lifetime of experience to summarize the landscape of the Moldovan Evangelical and Orthodox churches and their historical approaches to mission. His evaluation emphasizes the need for a biblical foundation to mission for Eastern European Evangelical churches. This book’s message is a timely, scholarly reminder of the need to pursue holistic mission if the church of Jesus Christ is to be an authentic and effective vessel to bring transformation to people’s lives and society.

Author: Jenny Gray
Publisher: SPCK
ISBN: 0281067678
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Primary school children are required to learn about Christianity and local churches are often keen to help, but don't know where to start. This book provides a four-year cycle of resources that churches can offer to children at Key Stage Two (years 3 to 6, ages 7 to 11). The tried-and-tested workshop material covers Christmas, Easter and stories about Jesus and includes all you need to know to run sessions in your local church. 'RE Active Church workshops help children realise they all belong to a bigger family. RE Active Church . . . will broaden each child's holistic education. My staff have benefited hugely from working alongside the church.' Vicky Parsey, Headteacher, Applecroft School, Welwyn Garden City.

Author: James Emery White
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 0801091659
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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An innovative, evangelistic pastor guides local church leaders to rethink their ministry's unique purpose and mission within the community.

Author: David Lyon
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802082138
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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The contributors consider how Canada's religious experience is distinctive in the modern world, somewhere between the largely secularized Europe and the relatively religious United States.

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Languages : en
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Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Elementary Education Acts
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Category : Educational law and legislation
Languages : en
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Author: Michael H. Crosby
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725240866
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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In this courageous work Michael Crosby offers a trenchant analysis of mandatory celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church. He shows how the imposition of celibacy has now revealed a deeper issue: the abuse of power as well as the abuse of women and homosexuals in the Church. Crosby asserts that: --to argue that the present discipline of mandatory celibacy is based on the New Testament is a misuse of scripture; --imposed celibacy continues to be used as a means of maintaining clerical control through fear and intimidation; --a religious system demanding celibacy exposes a deeper control: the abuse of power endemic throughout the system; --while difficult to live out even when freely chosen, enforced celibacy can result in dysfunctional behaviors at all levels. Integrating his personal experience as a celibate and cleric with biblical exegesis, historical study and the behavioral sciences, Crosby believes that: --healthy celibacy demands intimacy with God and others; --a healthy church will reorder its current power dynamics in a way that mitigates sexual abuse; --this will once again reveal Roman Catholicism to be a religion with an inspiring model of evangelical life and witness. This updated revision of Crosby's award-winning 'Celibacy: Means of Control or Mandate of the Heart?' also addresses the abuse of power in the Catholic Church by those male, clerical celibates who control it. He convincingly points the way to a Church that will be--with all its ministers--healthier and holier.

Author: Frederick Klaits
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520259653
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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"Klaits' work is not only a major contribution to the anthropology of religion and the social scientific literature on AIDS, but also a significant intervention into debates on how Africanists should approach their understandings of sociality and relatedness."--Matthew Engelke, author of A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church "The reader gets the sense of being a welcome party to a close conversation. Klaits sustains a direct, clear, humane, and jargon-free voice, and we come away with a radically challenged understanding of what it means in an African church to be 'born anew'."--Richard Werbner, author of Tears of the Dead: The Social Biography of an African Family

Author: Jewel Umberger
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595481442
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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This God-given book gives the reader a look at the things that are encountered in teaching, preaching and ministering in a small non-denominational church. They include the birth of the baby church, prayer, praise, miracles and encouragement. The author has been kidnapped, locked on the wrong side of jail cells, worked with adults and children. There is something in this book for every reader. You may laugh and cry, but you will be amused at the antics of small children. Other subjects include praise, prayer, weddings, forgiveness, collections, songs, intercessory prayer, food ministry, fire in the soul, baptizing, false prophets-all the things you will identify with a small church. But the most important of all is the chapter on "Stuff". Everybody has some-nobody wants to get rid of it. What do you do with stuff? Read what the Bible says about "stuff" and laugh at yourself!