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The Establishment Of A Lay Evangelism School At The Ephesus Sda Church In Richmond, Virginia, Gene Michael Donaldson

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

Sharing the good news is an imperative issued by the Supreme Commander, Jesus Christ for all who call Him Lord. Every member of the church is a minister with the responsibility to bring others to faith. The mandate to witness to others in the context of the three angels message of Revelation 14 is of paramount importance to the Seventh-day Adventist Christian. The purpose of this study was to prepare a training program to equip lay persons in the Virginia area churches of the Allegheny East Conference on how to bring others to faith.

Method

An equipping course called, …

Developing Lay Ministry Through Small Groups In The Seventh-Day Adventist Churches In Korea, Gil Ho Choi

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

As churches continue to grow from small to large communities, they struggle to meet the need of a growing community. There is a need to involve more church members in the ministries of the congregation. The churches also need to assimilate the new church members. Increasing demands are placed upon the pastors of churches to meet the challenge.

Method

This study deals with a program designed for lay ministry through small groups. It consists of two main parts. The first considers the concepts of small-group lay ministry in the theological, sociological framework of the local church. It includes an …

Improving Member Retention In The Zambia Union Of Seventh-Day Adventists, Fordson Vincent Chimoga

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

The loss of church members in the Zambia Union of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is of grave concern. According to church statistics, every year members leave the church through being missing and apostasy. This study is intended to provide practical solutions to pastors and the laity on how to keep members from leaving the church. This study of church member retention is approached in the following manner. First an analysis is made of the finding of the questionnaires sent to pastors and church members in Zambia. Second, there is an analysis of the church statistics obtained from Zambia. Third, …

Bhakti: A Bridge To Philosophical Hindus, N. Sharath Babu

Doctor of Ministry Projects

The Problem

The Christian presence has been in India for the last 2000 years and the Adventist presence has been in India for the last 105 years. Yet, the Christian population is only between 2-4 percent in a total population of about one billion in India. Most of the Christian converts are from the low caste and the tribals. Christians are accused of targeting only Dalits (untouchables) and tribals. Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation, advised Christians to direct conversion to those who can understand their message and not to the illiterate and downtrodden.

The Task

The task of …

Using The Heritage Of The St. Thomas Christians To Develop An Outreach Strategy, Kunjunjukutty Yohannan

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

The St. Thomas Christians in Kerala claim their spiritual heritage from Thomas the apostle. Yet they are not generally aware of a number of scriptural teachings including the seventh-day Sabbath, which Thomas and their forefathers observed. For the last one hundred years there has been no developed Seventh-day Adventist strategy to proclaim the full biblical message, which was their heritage, to this people group.

Findings

The St. Thomas Christians of Kerala, India, believe that Thomas the apostle took Christianity to India. Their very existence bears witness to it. Thomas is reported to have arrived in Kerala in A.D. 52. …

Islamic Law Across Cultural Borders: The Involvement Of Western Nationals In Saudi Murder Trials, Hossin Esmaeili, Jeremy Gans

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

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Vol. 28, No. 2: Full Issue, Denver Journal Of International Law & Policy

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

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Enforcement Of Human Rights On Multi-National Corporations: Global Climate, Strategies And Trends For Compliance, Jenness Duke

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Vol. 29, No. 1: Full Issue, Denver Journal Of International Law & Policy

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

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Poor Little Rich Kids: Revising Wisconsin's Child Support System To Accommodate High-Income Payers, Kelly M. Dodd

Marquette Law Review

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Much To Do About Something: Destabilizing Law's Support Of Dominant Ideologies In The Context Of Lesbian Mother Custody Claims In Canada, Natasha Kim

Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies

This article surveys a very specific legal context: the claims of mothers, who are lesbians, in custody disputes over their children, with their heterosexual ex-spouses, in Canadian courts. The author examines the developments in judgments surrounding custody involving a lesbian mother over the past two and a half decades, focusing on the line of reasoning within the judgments rather than the substantive results (that is, to whom custody is granted). The end result will be an attempt to better understand the interaction between law as a discourse and the dominant ideologies of familialism, motherhood, and heteronormativity. In Part Two, the …

Waterwheels, Healing Springs, And Baptismal Water: George Macdonald’S Gutta Percha Willie: The Working Genius, Michael Düring

North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies

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The Limitations Of Reductionist Approaches To Thomas Wingfold, Curate, John Docherty

North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies

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Insights- July 2000, University Relations Staff

Insights

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Canonicity And Commercialization In Woolf's Uniform Edition, John K. Young

English Faculty Research

This paper considers Virginia Woolf the publisher alongside Virginia Woolf the author. While the Hogarth Press has long been known for making Woolf "the only woman in England free to write what I like," it also made her free to be published as she liked. Hogarth, Jane Marcus argues, "gave Woolf a way of negotiating the terms of literary publicity, and a space somewhere between the private, the coterie, and the public sphere" (144-5). I will examine one such negotiation, the Uniform Edition of Woolf's works, a series designed to capitalize on her growing recognition and marketability. Once the Woolfs …

Woolf’S Mrs. Dalloway, John K. Young

English Faculty Research

The famous skywriting scene in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway owes more to 1920s advertising culture than has been previously recognized. In their rapt reading of the “Kreemo” aerial ad, the London pedestrians create both a commentary on consumerism and a model of collaborative, modernist reading.

Underwood Law Library Newsletter, Vol. 12, No. 1 – Fall 2000, Southern Methodist University, Dedman School Of Law, Underwood Law Library

Law Library Newsletter (1989-2006)

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The Speleologist Who Wrote Too Much, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

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Whale Shark Records And Conservation Status In Venezuela, Aldemaro Romero Jr., A. Ignacio Agudo, C. Salazar

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Jacques Besson, Cave Eels And Other Alleged European Fishes, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Zeia Lomax

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

The Unsung Heroes Of Speleology, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Kathryn Benz

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Terms For The Turning : Some Remarks On The Prose-Verse Dichotomy, Lloyd Haft

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

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Jing Wang. High Culture Fever : Politics, Aesthetics, And Ideology In Deng's China; Jing Wang, Ed. China's Avant-Garde Fiction : An Anthology, Xiaobin Yang

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

This article reviews the books "High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng's China" written by Jing Wang and "China's Avant-Garde Fiction: An Anthology" edited by Jing Wang.

Living With The Consequences: The New Jersey Supreme Court Finds Cohabitation Provisions Enforceable, Jennifer Mara

Seton Hall Law Review

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Office Rent Determinants During Market Decline And Recovery, Barrett A. Slade

Faculty Publications

This article empirically examines office rent determinants in distinct periods of a market cycle. The study uses a dataset of office properties located in a large metropolitan area and spanning a six-year period. During this period, office rents experienced a significant decline and recovery. A time-varying parameter rent index identifies three distinct periods of the cycle: decline, trough and recovery. Tests of structural change conclude that market participants value the determinants of office rents differently during the periods. A microexamination of each rent determinant over the periods of the market cycle provides a greater understanding of how rents vary over …

An Accelerated Learning Curve: Understanding The Benefits Of Motorsports Within Academic Disciplines, Mark D. Howell

Visions in Leisure and Business

This article examines the growing need for college and university programs focusing on the motorsports industry. Many institutions fight against the age-old academic debate between classical or "high" culture and popular or "low" culture. Since motorsports affect large, general audiences, they are traditionally deemed "low" culture. As this article states, however, the need for college-educated engineers, designers, and business people in the rapidly expanding motorsports industry is slowly pushing automobile racing into the arena of an established and necessary academic discipline. The benefit of such a discipline is that graduates are successful in finding jobs with many of the biggest …

Scriptural Allusion And Metaphorical Marriage In Charles Chesnutt's 'The Wife Of His Youth', Earle V. Bryant

English Faculty Publications

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Poems The Big Cats Brought In (Review Article), John Gery

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Recovering Collectivity: Group Rights To Intellectual Property In Indigenous Communities, Angela R. Riley

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

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When Is A Cd Factory Not Like A Dance Hall?: The Difficulty Of Establishing Third-Party Liability For Infringing Digital Music Samples, Rebecca Morris

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.