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Appointments And Confirmations By The Superior General

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

A.I.C. From The Origins To The Present Day: 380 Years, 1617-1997, Mauricette Borloo, Marie Claire Guichard

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

My Hopes For The Vincentian Marian Youth Groups, Robert P. Maloney C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

"We The People" And Our Enduring Values, Susan Bandes

College of Law Faculty

No abstract provided.

Preparing Pastors To Train Laity For Church Growth In The Seventh-Day Adventist Church In Japan, Akeri Suzuki

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

The annual number of baptisms in the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church in Japan has decreased from 426 in 1986 to 334 in 1995 despite increases in both the total membership and number of churches. During the same period of time, the number of pastors has declined from 118 in 1986 to 112 in 1995. Thus, the average annual baptisms per pastor has decreased from 3.61 in 1986 to 2.98 in 1995.

Method

Current literature was reviewed. This included books and articles on the principles, strategies, and programs which help pastors develop their abilities to equip the laity and to …

A Training Seminar For Preaching: Developing Effective Preaching Skills, Frank Ottati

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem. Preaching in general is weak and the results can be seen in poor church attendance. The future of the Christian Church depends in great measure on the quality and power o f the preaching from our pulpits. This study was to research, prepare, present, and evaluate a seminar for pastors that will help them develop effective preaching skills.

Method. Based on research on the preaching style and characteristics o f the Lord Jesus, the Apostle Paul, and six successful preachers, the seminar “Feeding the Flock” was produced. This seminar was presented in five different places, covering seven Conferences of …

A Model For Training Church Family Life Directors In Hispanic Congregations In The Michigan Conference, Jorge Raul Mayer

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem. The complexity of today’s life—with divorce, parenting inadequacy, juvenile delinquency, one-parent households, financial pressures, and the sexual revolution— creates significant distress to the families. Within the general population of the United States, Hispanics find additional stressors in acculturation and machismo. The families in Hispanic congregations of the Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists did not have a meaningful ministry to assist them in coping with these challenges.

Method. This project examined the biblical principles on the origin, composition, and mission of the family, the socio-theoretical approaches to understand the family as an institution, and the Hispanic family in the United …

Chinese Geomancy, Andrew William Broer

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Learning To Climb, Michael Zensius

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Strategy For The Establishment Of Seventh-Day Adventist Chaplaincy In The Ghana Armed Forces, Peter Kwasi Omane

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

There are many Adventist military personal and their families in the Ghana Armed Forces. This has led to the establishment of two organized churches and two companies in the military barracks. Since most of the Adventist military personnel are enlisted persons (non-officers), there is a need for an officer as a spokesperson. The interest that non-Adventist military personnel had shown in the Adventist message, especially in the areas of marriage, health, and evangelism, calls for a well- established Adventist chaplaincy ministries not only to win souls but to retain them. The Ghana Armed Forces has made a request to …

The Development And Implementation Of A Creative Approach In Training Hispanics For Evangelism In The Oregon Conference, Ramon J. Canals

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

The rapid growth of Hispanics in the Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventists represents a challenge for evangelistic outreach. This project was to determine how a conference-sponsored lay evangelism school could enhance Hispanic lay participation in evangelism.

Method

Research was conducted to understand the role of lay people in evangelism, followed by the establishment of a school of evangelism for training Hispanic lay people in the Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Fifty-two lay evangelists graduated from the school.

Results

The Hispanic lay people who participated in the training program believe that their spiritual lives have been enhanced. They also indicated …

Strategic Church Planting In The Central Zimbabwe Conference: Towards A Paradigm Shift In Church Growth, Nkosiyabo Zvandasara

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

This dissertation focuses on church planting in the Central Zimbabwe Conference. While impressive results have been achieved in evangelizing the lower classes of the society, there has been meager success in reaching the upper classes of the Black community as well as the White, the Indian, and the Colored minorities. A strategic church-planting approach to church growth hopes to not only target the least promising population segments served by the Central Zimbabwe Conference, but also to increase the effectiveness of the other church methods currently being employed to reach the more responsive classes in that conference.

Method

A diachronic …

Development Of An Adventist Community Services Center To Serve Navajo Residents Of Kayenta, Arizona, Dale A. Wolcott

Doctor of Ministry Projects

The Problem

A decision had been made to establish a Seventh-day Adventist Community Services Center in Kayenta, Arizona, on the Navajo Indian Reservation, in connection with a church-planting initiative. Those in charge lacked experience and training in community services ministries and faced obstacles to implementation of the plan.

The Method

A combination of research and action was used to move the envisioned Community Services Center toward reality. Study of the Bible and related literature led to formulation of Scripture-based methodological principles. Demographic research and community needs assessment procedures were utilized to gain an understanding of the Kayenta community and especially …

The Bar Association Movement In Nineteenth Century, J. Gordon Hylton

Marquette Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Change On The Hong Kong Convention And Exposition Business, Rachel S. Shinnar, Rhonda J. Montgomery

Visions in Leisure and Business

The primary objective of this paper was to look into the future of the Hong Kong Convention Center. The July 97 hand-over has generated many speculations regarding Hong Kong's future as a business center and as a tourist destination. The newly expanded Convention Center in the city has hosted many conventions and exhibitions in the past but its future is still uncertain. A wide scope of opinions is cited, predicting various scenarios regarding the future of the city. Based on these opinions and on statistical figures provided by the Hong Kong Tourist Association an attempt to predict the city's future …

A Journey Towards Simplicity / By Alfred J. Zimmermann, Ii, Alfred J. Zimmermann

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

What's In A Name: Law, Religion, And Islamic Names, K. M. Sharma

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Mozambique: A Listing Of Organizations Conducting Humanitarian Demining/Mine Awareness Activities, Cisr

Global CWD Repository

The following list describes organizations that have been active in conducting humanitarian demining activities in Mozambique. The list includes NGO’s, IO’s, commercial firms, governmental and military organizations. Printouts for some organizations with websites are included in Appendix A and are coded with an asterisk in the list.

The Flash And The Grandeur: A Short Study Of The Relation Among Macdonald, Lewis, And Wordsworth, Jim Prothero

North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies

No abstract provided.

A Rhetorical Comparison Of Spurgeon, Newman, And Macdonald, Robert Ellison

English Faculty Research

This is the first book to employ the methods of orality-literacy scholarship in the study of nineteenth-century preaching. The debate over whether sermons should be read from the manuscript or delivered extempore is analyzed, and the Victorian practices of attending preaching services on Sunday and reading and writing about sermons throughout the week is discussed. The second part of the book analyses the rhetoric of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, John Henry Newman, and George MacDonald, and ends with a comparison of these three preachers' sermons on the death and resurrection of Lazarus.

The Victorian Pulpit: Spoken And Written Sermons In Nineteenth-Century Britain, Robert Ellison

English Faculty Research

The Victorian Pulpit is the first book to study the nineteenth-century British sermon from the perspective of orality-literacy theory (the branch of literary and rhetorical inquiry concerned with the differences between spoken and written language). Building on the groundbreaking work of Milman Parry in the 1920s Albert B. Lord and Eric A. Havelock in the 1960s and 1970s, and especially Walter J. Ong in the 1970s and 1980s, orality-literacy studies had become an active, wide-ranging discipline by the 1990s, the time the book was conceived and written.

The first part of this study of the sermon as "oral literature" focuses …

Religion As Object And The Grammar Of Law, Larry Cata Backer

Marquette Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reshaping The Constitution To Meet The Practical Needs Of The Day: The Judicial Preference For Binding Arbitration, Vicki Zick

Marquette Law Review

No abstract provided.

All-Optical Mode Mixer Spatial Switch Based On Cascading In Lithium Niobate, Yongsoon Baek, Roland Schiek, George Stegeman, Gaetano Assanto, W. Sohler

Faculty Bibliography 1990s

An all-optically induced spatial shift in the interference between the two lowest-order modes of a lithium niobate channel waveguide was demonstrated based on the power-dependent nonlinear phase shift induced via quadratic cascading.

Nature Of The Continuum Limit In The 2d Rp2 Gauge Model, S. M. Catterall, M. Hasenbusch, R. R. Horgan, R. Renken

Faculty Bibliography 1990s

The RP2 gauge model which allows interpolation between the RP2 and O(3) spin models is studied in 2D. We use Monte Carlo renormalization techniques for blocking the mean spin-spin interaction [A] and the mean gauge field plaquette [P]. The presence of the O(3) renormalized trajectory is verified and is consistent with the known three-loop beta function. The first-order "vorticity" transition observed by Solomon et al. is confirmed, and the location of the terminating critical point is established. New scaling flows in ([A],[P]) are observed associated with a large exponent kappa in the range 4-5. The scaling flows are found to …

L.C. Manning : Remembering The Night, Catherine Paige Porter

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Linear And Nonlinear Optical Properties Of Knbo3 Ridge Waveguides, Tomas Pliska, Daniel Fluck, Peter Günter, Lutz Beckers, Christoph Buchal

Faculty Bibliography 1990s

Ridged channel waveguides in KNbO3 were produced using He+ ion implantation, photolithographic masking, and subsequent Ar+ ion sputtering. We investigated the linear and nonlinear optical characteristics of the waveguides. The effective mode indices are derived from the refractive index profiles using the effective index method. The losses are investigated as a function of wavelength and of the geometrical parameters channel width and ridge height. A minimum loss of 2 dB cm(-1) is measured at a wavelength of 0.633 mu m. We investigated the power handling capabilities at visible and near-infrared wavelengths. Second-harmonic generation in these waveguides is studied both theoretically …

Observability Of Counterpropagating Modes At Fractional Quantum Hall Edges, U. Zülicke, A. H. Macdonald, M. D. Johnson

Faculty Bibliography 1990s

When the bulk filling factor is nu=1-1/m with m odd, at. least one counterpropagating chiral collective mode occurs simultaneously with magnetoplasmons at the edge of Fractional quantum Hall samples. Initial experimental searches for an additional mode were unsuccessful. In this paper, we address conditions under which its observation should be expected in experiments where the electronic system is excited and probed by capacitive coupling. We derive realistic expressions for the velocity of the slow counterpropagating mode, starting from a microscopic calculation which is simplified by a Landau-Silin-like separation between long-range Hartree and residual interactions. The microscopic calculation determines the stiffness …

Lydia H. Liu. Translingual Practice : Literature, National Culture, And Translated Modernity : China, 1900-1937, Yi Tsi Mei Feuerwerker

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

This article reviews the book "Translingual Practice: Literature, National Culture, and Translated Modernity—China, 1900-1937", written by Lydia H. Liu.

Siu Wang-Ngai, With Peter Lovrick. Chinese Opera : Images And Stories, Paola Voci

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

This article reviews the book "Chinese Opera: Images and Stories", written by Siu Wang-ngai, with Peter Lovrick.