Download or read book Two Thousand and Four Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study written by Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Congregational Ministries Publishing. Mission Education and Promotion Program Team and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Authentic Congregations written by William H. Hopper and published by Geneva Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using case studies of authentic congregations--diverse Presbyterian congregations that are responding creatively and effectively in their social contexts--William Hopper draws insights for all congregations desiring more vital worship, service, and witness. He offers wisdom for congregations about how to engage controversial issues and develop faithful ministries in challenging times.
Download or read book THE WILL OF GOD Re written by Ph. D. The Reverend Vernon G. Elgin and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WILL OF GOD: Re: The Presbyterian Church (USA) Book of Common Worship explores in general the theological topic of "the will of God," as revealed in Scripture, and particularly as treated in the liturgical and worship material in the BOOK OF COMMON WORHSIP. The more than 200 references to the subject in the BCW appear in the different rubrics for worship: adoration, confession, supplication, petition, and explication or explanation. The goal of the book is better to understand how God's will has been revealed, identified, and defined, as a step toward the more perfect worship God expects of the Church.
Download or read book A Goodly Heritage written by Arch B. Taylor Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arch B. Taylor Jr. traces his ancestry from colonial times, immigrating from Great Britain and Scotland. He describes his family life through high school and Davidson College in North Carolina. As a student in Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and newly wed to Margaret Hopper he served as student pastor in Indiana and later in a rural pastorate in Tennessee. With a young son they went to China as missionaries, only to end up in Japan. They devoted themselves to Shikoku Christian College for twenty-eight years, including Arch’s four years as its president. His biographical sketch of Margaret pays tribute to her as life partner and describes her outstanding qualities as a feminist activist. After Margaret’s death in 1984 Arch retired to Louisville, Kentucky, where Social Security and a Presbyterian pension support what he calls “retread.” Because the Creator God is love, and God sent Jesus as the savior of the world, Arch has devoted these years to nonviolence and justice and efforts for a better life for people on earth. Arch’s retread career was greatly blessed by his second wife Wanda Rowe Myers, who died in 2006. Arch has labored stoutly against the militarism of the United States. He opposed President Reagan’s Contra war and joined Witness for Peace in Nicaragua. As missionary in residence at Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina he condemned Bush’s first Iraq attack as a war crime. He joined the 2001 Presbyterian Peace Fellowship delegation in Israel / Palestine. He criticizes U.S. complicity in Israel’s violations of international law and the human rights of Palestinians. Arch advocates the abolition of nuclear weapons and the death penalty, while supporting fairness for LGBTQ people and women’s freedom of reproductive rights. Now past ninety, Arch has reduced his activism but continues to write and advocate.
Download or read book Renewing the Vision written by Cynthia M. Campbell and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five themes around which Campbell organizes these essays and sermons--written by 20 Presbyterian Church (USA) scholars, pastors and church leaders--is organized Christology and preaching, the church and evangelism, missions and service, the authority and interpretation of Scripture, and ecumenism and the Reformed tradition.
Download or read book Active Spirituality written by Kent Ira Groff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1993-12-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guidebook for the inquiring layperson seeking a holistic, intelligent look at the spiritual life, and for the pastor or religious professional seeking a systematic framework and spiritual practices to re-ignite the flame of faith. Groff explains what it means to believe and what to do after you say you believe-through a unique integration of spirituality and service, heart and mind, and various faith traditions. Explore five spiritual disciplines: community, solitude, learning, service, and vocation. Great for study groups.
Download or read book Mission Adventures in Many Lands written by J. Lawrence Driskill and published by Hope Publishing House. This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan, China, and Africa are the settings for some of these mission adventures.
Download or read book Presbyterian Polity for Church Officers written by Joan S. Gray and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a newly revised edition, this detailed, comprehensive interpretation of the Book of Order is the most complete resource of its kind since the church's reunion. It explains the system of Presbyterian government, from sessions to presbyteries to synods to the General Assembly itself.
Download or read book Long Road to Obsolescence written by Frank L. Arnold and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-02-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century American Presbyterians were among the many Western denominations that sent missionaries to countries around the world. They established foreign Missions as bases in those lands with the intention of starting indigenous churches there. Although the Mission structures were designed to function like scaffolding during the construction of a building, to be removed when the building is complete, the Presbyterian Mission structure in Brazil remained in place for 126 years, long after the Brazilian Presbyterian Church it founded became independent and self-supporting. It was the last of the Presbyterian Missions in the world to be dissolved. The story told here documents the contributions made by North American Presbyterians in Brazil and tackles the missiological question of just why it remained in place so long, and whether it should have.
Download or read book Called as Partners in Christ s Service written by Sherron Kay George and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004-06-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a study of the Gospel of John as a framework, Sherron George affirms that God's mission in partnership, by its very nature, must be ecumenical. This book is intended for all Christians engaged in mission with God and others. It is offered as a theological and practical tool to all in the global church who engage in "re-inventing" partnership in mission for the twenty-first century.
Download or read book The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion written by LindaJo H. McKim and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This helpful resource provides extensive information about each hymn in The Presbyterian Hymnal (1990)--background detail about hymn origins, publication history, authors, translators, composers, and arrangers. Stories about some of the hymns are also included. An excellent handbook that supplies information useful for a variety of purposes.
Download or read book Embracing Diversity written by Charles R. Foster and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997-12-31 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore a variety of approaches congregations have taken to embrace differences; identify leadership issues diversity creates in congregations; and discover programmatic suggestions drawn from the experience of multicultural congregations to address these issues. This book helps readers to understand their own experience with racial and cultural differences and is a guide for gathering diverse people into the life and mission of the congregation.
Download or read book What Unites Presbyterians written by Clifton Kirkpatrick and published by Geneva Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stated Clerk Clifton Kirkpatrick and former missionary and denominational executive William Hopper provide a cogent account of the distinctive features of Presbyterianism that define this theological tradition and present a basis for the renewal of the church. This book is ideal for use in church officer training and must reading for all Presbyterians who want to understand their faith tradition more fully, and for non-Presbyterians interested in a succinct presentation of the Reformed theological tradition.
Download or read book Creating Christian Indians written by Bonnie Sue Lewis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Creating Christian Indians takes issue with the widespread consensus that missions to North American indigenous peoples routinely destroyed native cultures and that becoming Christian was fundamentally incompatible with retaining traditional Indian identities"--from jkt.
Download or read book Missionary Yearbook of the Methodist Episcopal Church South written by Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Board of Missions and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christianity in China written by Xiaoxin Wu and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now revised and updated to incorporate numerous new materials, this is the major source for researching American Christian activity in China, especially that of missions and missionaries. It provides a thorough introduction and guide to primary and secondary sources on Christian enterprises and individuals in China that are preserved in hundreds of libraries, archives, historical societies, headquarters of religious orders, and other repositories in the United States. It includes data from the beginnings of Christianity in China in the early eighth century through 1952, when American missionary activity in China virtually ceased. For this new edition, the institutional base has shifted from the Princeton Theological Seminary (Protestant) to the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural Relations at the University of San Francisco (Jesuit), reflecting the ecumenical nature of this monumental undertaking.
Download or read book Yearbook and Annual Report written by Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Board of World Missions and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
