Urbana 06 Seminars: Global Missions Issues
In this major attendees will take an up-close look at the world we live in today and some of the particular realities about which Christians should be aware. There will be seminars designed to equip believers to engage the realities around the globe with God’s truth, grace, justice, and compassion. Topics will include:
- War
- Justice
- Power
- The environment
- Wealth and poverty
- Contextualization
- Vulnerable peoples (including women and children)
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A Holistic View of Holistic Ministry
Jeff Dixon & Doug Van Bronkhorst -
Bible Translation: Current Trends
Freddy Boswell -
Caring for Creation: What the Environment has to do with Missions
Ed Brown -
Children and Modern Slavery: Forced Labor and Prostitution
Sharon Cohn -
Cross-Cultural Ministry Among the Poor
Meredith Long -
Doing Justice Now: Preparing for a Human Rights Career
Reagan Demas -
Global Partnerships, Building the Global Church
Oscar Muriu -
Healing the Children of War: Orphans, Street Children and Child Soldiers
Lorella Rouster -
Living Justly (Justice as Lifestyle)
Shawn Casselberry -
Modeling the Cross: Biblical Methods for Fighting Injustice and Bringing Unity
Bob Hunter -
Oral Tradition & Story: A New Paradigm for Global Missions
Ray Aldred -
Poverty Goes Beyond Money
Saul Cruz -
Power: It's Uses and Misuses in Mission
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Seek Justice, Rescue the Oppressed
Reagan Demas -
Suffering, Martyrdom & Mission
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Technology Transforming Vulnerable Communities
Andrew Sears -
To Be Cool or to be Authentic: a Question of Witness
Paul Grant -
Western Money and the Church in the Developing World
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Where Women are Vulnerable: Justice and Power Issues for Women Around the World
- You’ve already been thinking about some of the topics listed above, and you want to go deeper.
- You find it tough to see how God figures in, when the world is so full of suffering and injustice.
- You find yourself angry at the evils you see in the world—but you don’t know how to put that anger to work in a positive way.
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