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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Mission work"”.
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Applying ecofeminist theory to Christian mission work in Honduras: Building theoretical bridges for real change
… encourages the tens of thousands of Christian missionaries traveling yearly to Honduras to look to the ecofeminist theories of Rosemary Radford Ruether and Mary Judith Ress in order to more effectively confront the social, political, and economic hurdles preventing more Hondurans from living …
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Health and healing in mission work at the start of the twenty-first century: a biblical, historical and contemporary study
… attempts to reassess health and healing in mission, afresh and relevantly, in view of the growing changes and complexities of globalization. The writer attempts to find out what is meant by health in the Bible, in the perspective of God’s mission and the mission of God’s people and, from …
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'A plea for Missouri' : the American Home Missionary Society and the Civil War-era struggle for Missouri and the West
… create voluntary societies in order to conduct mission work. Founded in 1826, the American Home Missionary Society (AHMS) was America’s principal domestic missionary society. It sought to spread the Gospel on the western frontier, thereby laying the foundation for an expanded, Godly American …
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Leliefontein : structure and decline of a Coloured mission community 1870-1913
… All these Reserves owe their existence to missionary influence. Leliefontein is the most southerly of the reserves, and the only reserve where mission work is controlled by the Methodist Church. The missions to the North are under the guidance the Dutch Reformed Church. Leliefontein covers …
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The Foundations and Early Development of Mormon Mission Theory
… to Mormonism and their thriving tradition of missionary work, how do Mormons conceive of their mission? By focusing on the theoretical frame in which Mormon missionaries imagined the non-Mormon world, prepared for missionary engagement, and derived their expectations for their mission work, …
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The Pentecost fire is burning : models of mission activities in the Church of Pentecost
The use of models to study mission activities enables not only vivid description and systematic analysis but also prescriptions for the future. This thesis examines the mission activities of the Church of Pentecost from 1917 to 2008 using five mission models: local, regional, migrational, reverse …
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Silent Messengers: Visualizing the Growth of Christianity in China by Chinese Christian Posters, 1927-1942
… posters as central sources and other archives of mission societies in China as supporting sources, this thesis analyzes how Chinese Christian visual materials supported Christians to build the Christian community in China. It argues that Christian posters, unifying strength of foreign missionaries …
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From the pages of three ladies : Canadian women missionaries in Republican China
… women who served as United Church of Canada missionaries in China in the first half of the 20th century. Drawing principally on their diaries and letters, the thesis examines the China experiences and impressions of Margaret Helen Brown (1887-1978) who spent 39 years in China as an educator …
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Love, Rescue, Heal: Managing the Meaning of a Mission to End Human Trafficking
… change organization manages the meaning of its mission when communicating with volunteers and supporters to raise funds, increase awareness, create advocates, and achieve social change. Social change organizations, which exist to alleviate societal ills at the grassroots level, have recently …
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Dust-Obscured Galaxy Protocluster and Cluster Survey (DOGPACS): Identifying Large-Scale Structures 9−10 Billion Light-Years Away
… decision tree-based architecture as part of the mission work for the upcoming Euclid Space Mission (2023). The photo-z results are comparable with many other template fitting- and machine learning-based methods.
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Attitudes of Foreign Students Toward Missions
… students in North America and Australia toward missions. This research was directed primarily to Western students--students who were considered prospective missionaries and on whom the future of missions rested. My research continued this theme, but it was concerned with the attitudes of those …
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Open hearts, closed doors : native Protestants, pluralism, and the "foreigner" in America, 1924-1965.
… Protestant denominations sponsored vigorous home mission work among immigrant communities in the United States. As the century progressed, these programs, often conducted by women and occasionally by immigrants themselves, blended progressive social gospel ideals, such as the brotherhood of man, …
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Church, Sect, and Government Control, a History of Seventh-Day Adventists in Austria, 1890-1975
… of the most difficult countries for evangelical mission outreach in Europe.</p> <p>This dissertation not only describes the history of Seventh-day Adventism in Austria but also examines the relationship of the denomination to its political and religious milieu. How did the Austrian Adventists …
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A study of Vakwangali traditional clothing for fashion creation in Namibia
… documents, regarding early establishment of mission work and schools, showed the influence of Christianity and colonial rule on Vakwangali traditional clothing including its transformation. Artefacts were also observed at the Maria Mwengere Museum in Rundu and Owela Museum in Windhoek to …
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Mission policies of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines (ECP), 1901-1980: their contribution to the regional character of the Church
… the extensive contribution of successive mission policies from 1901 to 1980 to the regional character of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines (ECP). The policy of concentration from 1901 to 1919, which focused church’s work in certain areas of Luzon and Mindanao, continued to impact the …
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TRANSNATIONAL SALVATION AND THE GENDERING OF HABITUS: KOREAN WOMEN PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES IN HAITI
… Korean and Korean American Protestant women missionaries. This confluence of Korean and Haitian Protestantism, which first emerged in the early 1990s, is a compelling case of the diversification of contemporary transnational and even global Christianity. Protestant Christianity was implanted …
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A Missiological Evaluation of Southern Baptist Multiethnic Churches in the United States
… Baptist multiethnic churches exemplify the mission of the church as revealed in the Scriptures and offer a valuable strategy for reaching the increasingly diverse population of the United States. Chapter 1 introduces the ethnic segregation of Southern Baptist Churches and begins to establish …
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A Theory Base and Mission-Sending Model for the South American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
<p>Problem</p> <p>Effective missionary work depends on a combination of three preconditions, equally indispensable: (1) a body of committed and adaptable personnel who are prepared to transmit to another cultural group the relevance of the Christian message; (2) an organization that is equipped to …
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A Study Of The Pokot Cultural Worldview: Missiological Implications For Seventh-Day Adventist Witness Among The Pastoral Nomads Of Kenya
… and values is partial explanation for why missionaries have failed to effectively connect with the nomads thereby hampering the establishment of a more vibrant mission work in pastoral nomadic regions.</p> <p>This qualitative research sought to describe the Pokot cultural worldview as a …