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Psychosocial Development Through Service-Learning Enhanced Spiritual Consciousness In Workcamp Experience, Timothy W. Kidd

Thesis, Dissertations, Student Creative Activity, and Scholarship

The problem examined in this research was the identification and description of the distinctive components associated with the Christian youth workcamp experience found to promote the psychosocial development of church youth participants and the linkages to enhanced spiritual consciousness.

The unit of analysis for this multi-case study was the Christian youth workcamp. The criteria used for selection of the three cases examined were: (1) location within the Appalachian region; (2) philosophy and practice consistent with service-learning principles; (3) emphasis upon facilitating spiritual development; and (4) logistical concerns. Thirty-four subjects were selected from three church youth groups, each attending one of …

The Vanguard (Vol. 27, No. 7), Sep 1980, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Missouri Synod congregations should seek to sponsor Haitian refugees and expand their ministry with handicapped parishoners.

Those were just two of literally dozens of recommendations and resolutions passed at the third biennial convocation of black Missouri Synod congregations. Delegates and visitors from more than half of the synod's 200 black congregations participated in the four-day meeting in mid-July in Chicago.

The Vanguard (Vol. 25, No. 2), Mar 1978, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

For the second year, the Wheat Ridge Foundation has granted $23,700 to the Lutheran Human Relations Association of America (LHRAA) to conduct two workshops for congregations in racially changing neighborhoods.

Last year's workshops involved seven midwest and seven west coast congregations. In the two week-long events - one in Chicago and one in Los Angeles - lay leaders and pastors developed skills to help their congregations minister more effectively in their changing communities (November 1977 and December 1977 VANGUARD).

The Vanguard (Vol. 24, No. 10), Dec 1977, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Lutherans in the United States and Canada quickly voiced strong criticism of the Republic of South Africa's October 19 bannings and arrests of black leaders.

Several Lutheran leaders issued statements condemning the repressive actions (see page 2 for excerpts).

Selected Variables Related To Alienation From Religion As Perceived By Students Attending Seventh-Day Adventist Academies In The United States, Roger L. Dudley

Dissertations

Problem. Some young people who are reared in religious homes reject the religion of their parents upon reaching adolescence. This is a matter of crucial concern to church youth leaders as well as to parents. It was the purpose of the present study to discover relationships that may exist between alienation from religion and other selected variables. It was hypothesized that religious alienation is related to the quality of the relationships— especially as those relationships concern religious values— chat the young people have with parents and other authority figures. Independent variables were chosen in accordance with that hypothesis which was …

Moral And Religious Problems And Attitudes As Expressed By Students In Seventh-Day Adventist Academies In The United States And Canada, Ingram Frank Du Preez

Dissertations

Problem. Adolescence is characterized by many problems of adjustment. Seventh-day Adventist youth cannot be expected to be immune to these problems. The purpose of the study was to ascertain the moral and religious problems and attitudes as perceived by students in Adventist academies. An attempt was also made to evaluate, from the students' viewpoint, the effectiveness of the provisions made by the academies to help meet these problems. Method Nineteen hundred and twenty students were chosen by a stratified random method from all enrollees in Seventh-day Adventist academies In the United States and Canada. Students were asked to respond to …

The Vanguard (Vol. 22, No. 5), July 1975, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

The Lutheran Human Relations Association of Los Angeles has scored another "first."

A Conference on the Vietnamese: Their Presence Among Us, held June 28 at Our Savior's Lutheran Church, initially was planned by the Los Angeles LHRA and Lutheran Social Services. Co-sponsors included the Asian Studies Program of California State University at Long Beach and the Long Beach Campus Ministry.

The Vanguard (Vol. 22, No. 10), Dec 1975, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

While Lutheran Human Relations Association-Madison's program aims at social and spiritual support to criminal offenders and ex-offenders, at the same time it provides an integrated approach to community understanding and rehabilitation.

Social Action As Social Change Through A Process Of Insulation, Leonard Siegfred Nelson

Dissertations and Theses

This study has attempted to investigate the radical change in the Greater Portland Council of Churches’ (GPCC’s) organizational goals and actions--from its relative uninvolvement over to its preoccupation with local social, political and economic issues. In the past, classical sociological theory of religion has placed great emphasis on religion’s integrative, or conservative functions in society. Empirical studies have documented the conservative socio-political views of the majority of Protestant parishioners. Knowing this, I expected to find a significant conservative reaction swelling up from the lay parishioners of the GPCC's member congregations. A preliminary investigation revealed this assumption to be invalid. The …

The Vanguard (Vol. 19, No. 7), Sep-Oct 1972, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

As Lutheran meetings go, this was a strange one. Probably more non-Lutherans than Lutherans were present. And most of the non-Lutherans were Indians - Indians from California, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Illinois and a few more states.

The Vanguard (Vol. 17, No. 4), June 1970, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

In January, 1970 a Federal Grand Jury began an investigation into the events which occurred in Chicago on December 4, 1969. On that day, a police raid resulted in the deaths of Black Panthers Mark Clark and Fred Hampton.

The Vanguard (Vol. 17, No. 6), Aug 1970, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

A larger-than-ever attendance of over 300 were on hand for the Lutheran Indian Conference in Sioux Falls July 31 to August 1 at Augustana Lutheran College. Most of them were Indians and most of the Indians were not Lutherans.

The Vanguard (Vol. 16, No. 6), Jul-Aug 1969, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Into the middle of the "Denver debate" - the sometimes bitter, sometimes restrained, but always intense expressions of opinion - came a group of black Lutherans bringing their gift of love. Delegates, visitors, and members of the Black Youth Unlimited stood together on the platform in the convention hall.

The Reverend Albert Pero of Detroit, President of the Association of Black Lutheran Churchmen, Mr. Sherman Beverly, high school teacher and president of the Chicago Northwest Suburban chapter of LHRAA, and the Reverend Will Herzfeld of Oakland, California and former LHRAA board member, spoke for the group.

The Vanguard (Vol. 16, No. 4), May 1969, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

James Forman, director of the National Black Economic Development Conference, interrupted the service at Riverside Church, New York, on Sunday, May 3, when he stood in the chancel and read a list of demands made by his organization against the church. Riverside Church, located at Riverside Drive and 120th Street, just west of Harlem, has been singled out, Forman said, "because it is in the heart of the Harlem community, as are a few other racist institutions."

The Vanguard (Vol. 15, No. 8), Oct-Nov 1968, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Brothers in our Lord Christ:

The Lutheran Human Relations Association of America is a voluntary association of Lutherans organized to help the church fill the role of leadership in the area of human relations assigned to her by our Lord when He said, "By this shall men know that you are My disciples - that you love one another."

The Vanguard (Vol. 15, No. 4), May 1968, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Fifty-two of the eighty black clergymen of the three major Lutheran church bodies met in Chicago, May 7 to 10, to discuss problems common to their ministry and evolve a strategy for helping the church through the years ahead.

After meeting in closed assembly for a day and a half, the pastors opened sessions to white church leaders to share concerns with them. On hand also for the consultation were the presidents of the ALC, Mo. Synod, and LCA, Doctors Schiotz, Harms and Fry.

The Vanguard (Vol. 15, No. 6), Aug 1968, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

The Board of Directors of the Lutheran Human Relations Association of America has designated Mr. and Mrs. Chris McNair of Birmingham, Alabama, to receive the Mind of Christ Award.

The award is presented annually in connection with the Saturday evening dinner of the Valparaiso University Institute on Human Relations.

The Reverend Joseph Ellwanger of Milwaukee who formerly served at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Birmingham, Alabama where Mr. McNair is a member, was invited to make the presentation.

The Vanguard (Vol. 14, No. 4), June 1967, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Valparaiso University's 1967 Workshop in Human Relations for Professional Church Workers will feature Dr. Will Campbell. Dr. Campbell, who will speak to the Human Relations Institute on the Valparaiso campus three days earlier, will lecture to Workshop participants twice.

The theme of this year's Workshop is THE COMMUNICATING MINISTRY. Dr. Campbell's first presentation will be "Listening to Those to Whom We Intend to Communicate"; his second: "Balance of Words and Acts in Ministry. "

The program will also include theological and sociological studies; a field trip to Chicago with interviews with people in ministry there; and acquainting with resources, techniques, …

The Vanguard (Vol. 13, No. 3), Apr-May 1966, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

For years the vast majority of America's people have backed away from becoming involved in attempts to solve our country's racial problems. Perhaps one reason is the immense and complex nature of these problems. Perhaps they feel there is nothing really that an INDIVIDUAL can do about them.

The Lutheran Human Relations Association of America believes that MANY INDIVIDUALS working away at the problems - in many different places at the same time can achieve much. But it is necessary that there be no postponement. On the strength of such convictions, in cooperation with Valparaiso University, LHRAA has chosen to …