Download or read book Welcoming the Stranger Parish Guide written by and published by USCCB Publishing. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The resources in this parish guide offer practical guidance for building more welcoming and inclusive parishes. Contains copies of published documents and related resources.
Download or read book Welcoming the Stranger written by Matthew Soerens and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academy of Parish Clergy Top Ten List Immigration is one of the most complicated issues of our time. Voices on all sides argue strongly for action and change. Christians find themselves torn between the desire to uphold laws and the call to minister to the vulnerable. In this book World Relief immigration experts Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. They put a human face on the issue and tell stories of immigrants' experiences in and out of the system. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths and misconceptions about immigration and show the limitations of the current immigration system. Ultimately they point toward immigration reform that is compassionate, sensible, and just as they offer concrete ways for you and your church to welcome and minister to your immigrant neighbors. This revised edition includes new material on refugees and updates in light of changes in political realities.
Download or read book I Was a Stranger written by Jodi Mullen Fondell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Was a Stranger will help you build empathy for the strangers and foreigners among you. Through personal experience and through the narratives of people who have moved to a foreign country for a variety of reasons, Jodi Mullen Fondell offers encouragement for churches desiring to be a place of welcome and embrace for those who often find themselves rejected by the broader society. Packed with tips on how to help your church navigate the road toward greater openness, this book offers advice on how to avoid the pitfalls that prevent churches from truly welcoming and embracing the stranger among them. Rev. Fondell gently guides readers in examining their own experiences of alienation in order to understand the profound disorientation that being a stranger in a strange land entails. This identification with the pain of being an outsider, she asserts, can move, motivate, and mobilize the church to live out God’s calling to welcome in the stranger. As the body of Christ embraces the members we are tempted to exclude, a new level of joy and a taste of heaven await our congregations. Includes a small-group Bible-study guide for communities ready to grow in ministry and hospitality.
Download or read book Welcoming the Stranger Among Us written by Catholic Church. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and published by USCCB Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for both ordained and lay ministers at the diocesan and parish levels, this document challenges us to prepare to receive newcomers with a genuine spirit of welcome.
Download or read book Leadership for Catholic Youth Ministry written by Thomas East and published by Twenty-Third Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catechetical / Youth Ministry
Download or read book Welcoming the Stranger written by Patrick R. Keifert and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an astute rethinking of theology and pastoral ministry that overcomes sentimental notions of hospitality.
Download or read book Paulist Liturgy Planning Guide written by Lawrence Boadt and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide provides a compact, easy-to-use, and comprehensive resource for all ministries involved in Sunday planning. Included are tips and information for musicians, lectors, Eucharist ministers, liturgical planning communities, homilists, and celebrants.
Download or read book The Good Worship Guide written by Robert Atwell and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunday worship, baptisms, weddings and funerals are the shop window of the church and there is nothing more important for mission than getting them right. How do we help congregations and occasional visitors encounter God through them? This practical guide draws upon the treasury of the church’s tradition and experience to establish good practice
Download or read book Stranger God written by Richard Beck and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible, challenging, funny, and one of the best reads on how to love others in any situation. Love and hospitality can change the way you see the world and others. That's exactly what modern-day theologian, Richard Beck, experienced when he first led a Bible study at a local maximum security prison. Beck believed the promise of Matthew 25 that states when we visit the prisoner, we encounter Jesus. Sure enough, God met Beck in prison. With his signature combination of biblical reflection, theological reasoning, and psychological insight, Beck shows how God always meets us when we entertain the marginalized, the oppressed, and the refugee. Stories from Beck's own life illustrate this truth -- God comes to him in the poor, the crippled, the smelly. Psychological experiments show how we are predisposed to appreciate those who are similar to us and avoid those who are unlike us. The call of the gospel, however, is to override those impulses with compassion, to "widen the circle of our affection." In the end, Beck turns to the Little Way of St. Thérèse of Lisieux for guidance in doing even the smallest acts with kindness, and he lays out a path that any of us can follow.
Download or read book Welcoming the Stranger Signposts for Building Bridges and Making Peace written by Nick Regnault and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does your church or community group want to help refugees or migrants settle into your neighbourhood but you're not sure how to start? Nick Regnault shares the experiences of his community at South West Baptist Church in Christchurch who are doing just that: initially through a refugee sponsorship scheme, and then in response to the terror attacks that occurred on 15 March 2019. This hugely rewarding and sometimes challenging journey has been a discovery: about others and about themselves. Nick distils four essential threads weaving through all these experiences. When woven together, he says, we can create places of welcoming and belonging for others and for ourselves, for the newcomer and for the established. The four threads are: Being clear about our intentions and values in welcoming others. Working with other people to together extend many hands of friendship. Thinking about the places that we live and move about in differently: as places of rich potential for making connections and creating belonging. Knowing about yourself and others. Nick and his community are very clear that this is not about converting people to Christianity. It is about ordinary people reaching out hands of friendship towards each other - to build bridges and to make peace.
Download or read book Lead Me Guide Me written by Kathy Ewing and published by Shanti Arts Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Dan Begin spent thirty-five years ministering among those who lived in the poorest neighborhood in one of the poorest cities in America—Cleveland, Ohio. He was one of thirteen children, full of stories of growing up in the fifties and sixties in a hardscrabble household of thirty-seven people on Cleveland’s West Side. He was a white priest who was welcomed into the homes (and church communities and funeral homes) of African-American families, as well as those of celebrities and athletes. Father Dan was irreverent, articulate, and wise. When he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2016, at the age of sixty-seven, the meaning of his life and ministry came into sharp focus. “Watch me through this,” he told his family, friends, and parishioners. Just as he had always showed us how to live, at the end he showed us how to suffer and die with grace. In Lead Me, Guide Me, author Kathy Ewing describes the friendship she had with Father Dan and the profound effects his life had on her and hundreds of others by simply being an ordinary man who possessed extraordinary goodness and love.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Understanding Catholicism written by Mary Faulkner, M.A. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-03-10 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Idiot's Guide To Catholicism explores the world's largest religious denomination and introduced you to the Catholic practice. It offers you a new approach to learning Catholicism, covering the rituals and symbols of the religion, such as Mass, the Seven Sacraments, and the holy days and their meaning. The authors tell you how Catholicism has spread throughout the world, its roots, and how it has grown and changed over the course of this century. It's a valuable tool for anyone interested in examining--or reexamining--this large and complex religion
Download or read book Ireland s Welcome to the Stranger written by Asenath Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Chronological Outline of the History of Bristol and the Stranger s Guide Through Its Streets and Neighbourhood written by John Evans and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Catholic Kid s Guide to Stewardship written by Elizabeth M. Johnson and published by Twenty-Third Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'A Catholic Kid's Guide to Stewardship', the author has collected some memorable and touching true stories of what kids have accomplished - and are still accomplishing. She centres each chapter on scripture and teachings of Jesus, offering passages that children can read on their own or with their families.
Download or read book Living the Works of Mercy written by Ellen P. Cavanaugh and published by Saint Mary's Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living the Works of Mercy: Daring Teens to Change the World can be used by teachers, coordinators of youth ministry, directors of religious education, catechists, teen mentors -- anyone who works with young people in junior and senior high school. It contains fourteen sessions, each of which engages teens thoughtfully, actively, and prayerfully in one of the works of mercy, in a variety of ways. The book also contains two retreats. "Jesus in Disguise" is an overnight retreat on the corporal works of mercy, and is designed for younger teens. "Christ Looks on Us with Love" is a weekend retreat on the spiritual works of mercy, especially created for older teens. Living the Works of Mercy: Daring Teens to Change the World is a resource that helps adults facilitate for teens the dialogue between profound human experiences and the revealed word of God. It is a resource that enables teens to understand the relevance of God's word in their life, and ultimately dares them to translate this sacred dialogue into action that will change the world. Book jacket.
Download or read book Changing Our Mind written by David P. Gushee and published by Read the Spirit Books. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Every generation has its hot-button issue,” writes David P. Gushee, “For us, it’s the LGBT issue.” In Changing Our Mind, Gushee takes the reader along his personal and theological journey as he changes his mind about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender inclusion in the Church. With 19 books to his name, Gushee is no stranger to the public arena. He is the author of the “Evangelical Declaration Against Torture” and drafted the “Evangelical Climate Initiative. “For decades now, David Gushee has earned the reputation as America's leading evangelical ethicist. In this book, he admits that he has been wrong on the LGBT issue.” writes Brian D. McLaren, author and theologian. In the definitive third edition of this book, David Gushee issues a scholarly response to his critics. Brian D. McLaren says it best: “Not only is David Gushee's work deep, thoughtful and brilliant; and not only is David philosophically and theologically careful and astute; he is also refreshingly clear and understandable by ‘common people’ who know neither philosophical nor theological mumbo jumbo.”
