Description
Students will write a paper that explores and critically analyzes a historic or contemporary example of a church ministry involved in international or inter-cultural mission/engagement. This could be a particular project, history of work, ministry in a particular setting, or program. To do this, students will need to:
- Be able to articulate a theological foundation regarding international or inter-cultural engagement;
- Provide an analytical view into a particular example of mission, describing its:
- History
- Reason/rationale
- Purpose/goal
- Method or practice (i.e., mode of engagement)
- What it has done/what has been its outcome
- Describe, based on the above analysis, theological assumptions (overt or covert; intentional or unintentional) of the particular example and its practice(s).
- Critically engage the particular example
- How does it reflect or participate in God’s mission (missio Dei) in the world?
- Does it portray a biblical vision of the church and its missional vocation?
- How does it embody a missional church paradigm throughout its praxis?
- What is or has been problematic?
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Explanation & Answer
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Running head: HANDS OF HOPE FOUNDATION.
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About
VISION: Offering Hope in Christ in the spirit of 1 Peter 3:15.
MISSION: To operate and develop faith-based communities that will function on a local,
national and international capacity to provide aid to the organization in meeting the needs of
poor communities. These needs will include Short-term housing, medical care, establishing a
permanent source for their food through agricultural programs, ed ucation assistance,
clothing, and parsonage.
Values: The Hands of Hope foundation holds the values of the Gospel dear. They
declare to have seen how the hope in Christ has transformed lives many people( tens of
thousands across the world in the countries they visited or are working in. This has been
the inspiration towards the Hands of Hope increasing its church's branches wherever
they to their mission.
Hands of Hope foundation also believes in Education. Hands of Hope believe that
education can be a great source of freedom. This includes freedom from poverty and
freedom from oppression and slavery. Hands of Hope Foundation have made efforts to
provide sponsorships for children to access an education through the Hope Scholars
program. This has been greatly successful in Liberia where the foundation has been for
more than 10 years and in Thailand.
The hands of hope foundation believe in the power o f outreach. The foundation
has participated in providing medical care, and other services of providing basic needs
to these individuals. Through these outreach programs, the foundation have seen
conditions of different groups of people bettered. Through these acts of generosity,
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kindness, and love, no matter how simple, the foundation has seen God use them to bring
people to Him.
Hands of Hope Foundation is a foundation that was started by a group of churches in
Illinois to make a variety of changes globally, especially in areas that had been struck by a
catastrophe, poverty-stricken and non-Christian areas. The foundation does the following
outreach activities: providing medical help, providing education where there would otherwise be
none, agricultural projects, protecting individuals from human trafficking, availing clean water,
doing evangelism work and erecting churches where there were none. This is a commendable
approach the foundation has on bringing more people to Christ. Through their kind and generous
works, the non-Christians are convinced of the goodness of the Lord and are willing to join
Christianity. The church, therefore, adheres to the commission Christ gave when He asked the
disciples to go forth and make disciples for Him. The church adheres to the commissioning of
Jesus where Jesus required them to not just serve their hometown, but go beyond in Judea and
other nations. Hands of Hope Foundation has sent its disciples to Africa (Liberia) where it has
been for more than 10 years, it has also stationed itself in Thailand, Bulgaria and different parts
of the United States.
The Hands of Hope Foundation takes on the Enlightenment and the Ecumenical mission
paradigms. The Enlightenment mission paradigm is a paradigm that was started in the 19th
century. This paradig...
