Author: Daniel E. Fountain
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
ISBN: 9780878085354
Category : Medical policy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When Dan Fountain and his wife arrived in the Congo in 1961, the challenges to effective medical missions seemed overwhelming. As the only doctor for a quarter of a million residents of the Vanga Health Zone, and with nothing but a dilapidated mission hospital and an undertrained staff to run it, Dr. Fountain turned to prayer, innovation, and local partnerships to meet the vast needs of his area. Health for All tells the story of an ever-increasing vision from curative care to community health, from a barely functioning hospital to a network of successful health services, from a lack of qualified workers to a local residency training program, from biomedical reductionism to whole person care, from cultural stalemate to worldview transformation. Dr. Fountain s insights into health and wholeness have changed countless lives and communities. Part memoir, part history, part textbook, Health for All is the legacy of a man who patterned his life and labor after that of the Great Physician."
Health for All
Author: Daniel E. Fountain
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
ISBN: 9780878085354
Category : Medical policy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When Dan Fountain and his wife arrived in the Congo in 1961, the challenges to effective medical missions seemed overwhelming. As the only doctor for a quarter of a million residents of the Vanga Health Zone, and with nothing but a dilapidated mission hospital and an undertrained staff to run it, Dr. Fountain turned to prayer, innovation, and local partnerships to meet the vast needs of his area. Health for All tells the story of an ever-increasing vision from curative care to community health, from a barely functioning hospital to a network of successful health services, from a lack of qualified workers to a local residency training program, from biomedical reductionism to whole person care, from cultural stalemate to worldview transformation. Dr. Fountain s insights into health and wholeness have changed countless lives and communities. Part memoir, part history, part textbook, Health for All is the legacy of a man who patterned his life and labor after that of the Great Physician."
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
ISBN: 9780878085354
Category : Medical policy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When Dan Fountain and his wife arrived in the Congo in 1961, the challenges to effective medical missions seemed overwhelming. As the only doctor for a quarter of a million residents of the Vanga Health Zone, and with nothing but a dilapidated mission hospital and an undertrained staff to run it, Dr. Fountain turned to prayer, innovation, and local partnerships to meet the vast needs of his area. Health for All tells the story of an ever-increasing vision from curative care to community health, from a barely functioning hospital to a network of successful health services, from a lack of qualified workers to a local residency training program, from biomedical reductionism to whole person care, from cultural stalemate to worldview transformation. Dr. Fountain s insights into health and wholeness have changed countless lives and communities. Part memoir, part history, part textbook, Health for All is the legacy of a man who patterned his life and labor after that of the Great Physician."
Protestant Missionaries and Humanitarianism in the DRC
Author: Jeremy Rich
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1847012582
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A significant contribution to the history of humanitarianism, Christianity and the politics of aid in Africa.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1847012582
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A significant contribution to the history of humanitarianism, Christianity and the politics of aid in Africa.
The Story of Faith Missions
Author: Klaus Fiedler
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1610974786
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Born of nineteenth-century Evangelical Awakening, and closely linked to Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission he founded in 1865, faith missions were unique in two key areas: they were interdenominational and they held firmly to the 'faith principle' of financial support. The faith mission movement has lost none of its vitality and relevance as it continues to play an important evangelistic role in Africa and worldwide. The result of more than a decade of research in Africa, Europe and the United States, and extensively supported by maps and charts, this book is the most comprehensive study available on the faith mission movement in Africa. Setting faith missions in the context of the many revival and missionary movements, which have shaped Protestant church history, the author describes their spiritual and practical evolution over 125 years, and outlines the challenges they face today.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1610974786
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Born of nineteenth-century Evangelical Awakening, and closely linked to Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission he founded in 1865, faith missions were unique in two key areas: they were interdenominational and they held firmly to the 'faith principle' of financial support. The faith mission movement has lost none of its vitality and relevance as it continues to play an important evangelistic role in Africa and worldwide. The result of more than a decade of research in Africa, Europe and the United States, and extensively supported by maps and charts, this book is the most comprehensive study available on the faith mission movement in Africa. Setting faith missions in the context of the many revival and missionary movements, which have shaped Protestant church history, the author describes their spiritual and practical evolution over 125 years, and outlines the challenges they face today.
A History of the Church in Africa
Author: Bengt Sundkler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521583428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1268
Book Description
Bengt Sundkler's long-awaited book on African Christian churches will become the standard reference for the subject.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521583428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1268
Book Description
Bengt Sundkler's long-awaited book on African Christian churches will become the standard reference for the subject.
Called To Mission
Author: Mirjam Scarborough
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471614115
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
PAPERBACK. 192 pages Crown Quarto format. According to the meta-study ReMAP, between 1992 and 1994 one missionary in twenty prematurely left mission service each year. This implies the loss of half of all missionaries every thirteen years. With this in mind, it is widely thought that a clear sense of call serves to prevent such dropout. This detailed and compassionate study of Mennonite women missionaries in Central Africa finds this to be true-in the short term. But in the long term, the sense of call itself tends to turn on the call-resulting in burnout and dropout. Through extensive field work, the author charts the course of missionaries who remodeled the call-turning its burden into blessing. This is embedded in a careful theological analysis, drawing on a wide sweep of Mennonite thought and praxis.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471614115
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
PAPERBACK. 192 pages Crown Quarto format. According to the meta-study ReMAP, between 1992 and 1994 one missionary in twenty prematurely left mission service each year. This implies the loss of half of all missionaries every thirteen years. With this in mind, it is widely thought that a clear sense of call serves to prevent such dropout. This detailed and compassionate study of Mennonite women missionaries in Central Africa finds this to be true-in the short term. But in the long term, the sense of call itself tends to turn on the call-resulting in burnout and dropout. Through extensive field work, the author charts the course of missionaries who remodeled the call-turning its burden into blessing. This is embedded in a careful theological analysis, drawing on a wide sweep of Mennonite thought and praxis.
'Some are fallen asleep': the story of our sixth year at the East London institute for home and foreign missions
Author: Mrs. Fanny E. Guinness
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Interdenominational Faith Missions in Africa
Author: Klaus Fiedler
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9996060454
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
It was not the European and American churches which evangelised Africa, but the mission societies. The missions from the Great Awakening such as the London Missionary Society and Church Missionary Society, or the Holy Ghost Fathers and the White Fathers, which started the process of Sub-Saharan Africa becoming a Christian continent are well known and documented. Less known, and less documented are the interdenominational faith missions which began in 1873 with the aim of visiting the still unreached areas of Africa: North Africa, the Sudan Belt and the Congo Basin. Missions such as the Africa Inland Mission or Sudan Interior Mission gave birth to some of the big churches like ECWA in Nigeria and Africa Inland Church in Kenya. It is the aim of this book to describe faith missions and their theology and to present an overview of the early development of faith missions insofar as they touched Africa.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9996060454
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
It was not the European and American churches which evangelised Africa, but the mission societies. The missions from the Great Awakening such as the London Missionary Society and Church Missionary Society, or the Holy Ghost Fathers and the White Fathers, which started the process of Sub-Saharan Africa becoming a Christian continent are well known and documented. Less known, and less documented are the interdenominational faith missions which began in 1873 with the aim of visiting the still unreached areas of Africa: North Africa, the Sudan Belt and the Congo Basin. Missions such as the Africa Inland Mission or Sudan Interior Mission gave birth to some of the big churches like ECWA in Nigeria and Africa Inland Church in Kenya. It is the aim of this book to describe faith missions and their theology and to present an overview of the early development of faith missions insofar as they touched Africa.
American Bd. of Comm. for Foreign Missions. - The Proposed Mission in Central Africa
Area Handbook for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo Kinshasa).
Author: Gordon C. McDonald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Provides facts about the social, economic, political and millitary institutions of the country.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Provides facts about the social, economic, political and millitary institutions of the country.
Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions
Author: Gerald H. Anderson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802846808
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
"The book also features cross-references throughout, a bibliography accompanying each entry, an elaborate appendix listing biographies according to particular categories of interest, and a comprehensive index."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802846808
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
"The book also features cross-references throughout, a bibliography accompanying each entry, an elaborate appendix listing biographies according to particular categories of interest, and a comprehensive index."--BOOK JACKET.