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Rethinking Foreign Missions: How Churches Can Engage In Global Missionary Work Without Leaving Their Communities, Stuart Alan Cocanougher
Rethinking Foreign Missions: How Churches Can Engage In Global Missionary Work Without Leaving Their Communities, Stuart Alan Cocanougher
Doctor of Ministry
For three hundred years, the modern missions movement has established a paradigm in which evangelical churches, denominations, and parachurch agencies have recruited, trained, funded, and sent missionaries around the world. Taking seriously Christ’s command to reach the nations with the gospel, U.S. churches spend millions of dollars each year to send a few select missionaries to faraway nations, while most Christians are not engaged in cross-cultural ministry. But the world has changed. Now there are millions of foreigners living in the United States. I propose that evangelical church leaders consider a new strategy that involves training American Christians to minister …
Resilience In Cambodia: Hearing The Voices Of Trafficking Survivors And Their Helpers , Glori G. Gray
Resilience In Cambodia: Hearing The Voices Of Trafficking Survivors And Their Helpers , Glori G. Gray
Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)
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Profiles Of Key Democracy And Good Governance Ngos/Agencies, Aaron Stuvland
Profiles Of Key Democracy And Good Governance Ngos/Agencies, Aaron Stuvland
Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics
Often referred to as an infrastructure or a‘democracy bureaucracy’, the worldwide net- work of democracy promotion and good governance non-governmental organizations (NGOs), international organizations (IOs), and bilateral agencies is immense and multi- faceted. Although they share a general mission of promoting democracy, each operates with varying goals and foci ^ and somewhat different definitions of democracy. Nevertheless, they share many common ends: free and fair elections, a responsive and participatory citizenry, rule of law, and transparent institutions.