Strengthening Sisters: How Latter‐day Saint Missionary Service Prepares Women for Leadership

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-32
Author(s):  
Sara McPhee Lafkas ◽  
Wendy Fox‐Kirk ◽  
Susan R. Madsen ◽  
Robbyn T. Scribner
Keyword(s):  
Missionary Service

scholarly journals Strategi Pelayanan Misi Dimasa Pandemi Coronavirus Desease 2019

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-440
Author(s):  
Adieli Waruwu ◽  
Samuel Purdaryanto
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Great Commission ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Missionary Service ◽  
Mission Service ◽  
Internet Networks ◽  
Media Applications ◽  
Service Strategies

At the end of 2019, the whole world and Indonesia were shocked by the emergence of the new coronavirus disease 2019. It has been more than a year since this disaster struck. The number of victims around the world has reached more than one hundred million with the death toll of more than two million people. Various efforts have been made to prevent the spread of this virus, one of which is social restrictions so that it has an impact in various areas of human life. One of the impacts is the missionary service which usually carries out social and face-to-face interactions. By using qualitative research methods with a literature review approach, observation, and interviews and then describing, this study will provide answers and solutions for mission service strategies during the Covid19 pandemic. The results of this study found answers to mission services online or online. By utilizing internet networks and social media, the gospel can still be preached despite social restrictions. Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Tiktok are some social media applications that can be used for mission services during the Covid-19 pandemic, through these applications this news can be presented in the form of writing, audio, and video which are shared via social media. This strategy, with its strengths and weaknesses, provides a great opportunity to continue working on the Great Commission of the Lord Jesus during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah M. Griffith
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War ◽  
North Americans ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
The Social ◽  
Racial Liberalism ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Missionary Service ◽  
The Impact

This chapter outlines the foundations that shaped the racial liberalism of American liberal Protestants from the late nineteenth century through World War II. Included is an overview of their missionary service with the Japan YMCA, the modernist theology that inspired their social reform, and the role emerging trends in the social sciences played in shaping their views on race and assimilation in the early 1900s. The chapter also introduces the impact racial liberalism had on Asian North Americans who embraced assimilation and acculturation in the 1920s and 1930s as the best solution to prevent racial discrimination.

Santiniketan and Phoenix Schools

2018 ◽  
pp. 69-99
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Missionary Service ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Phoenix

After meeting Tagore in 1912, Andrews was seriously considering moving to Santiniketan to help with Tagore’s school there. He came to visit the Santiniketan school for the first time in March 1913 and then again in July. Tagore was still in England but his elder brother Dwijendranath, who was everybody’s Barodada (elder brother), lived in Santiniketan. He and Andrews were greatly drawn to one another as the joyous letters Andrews wrote from his visits to the school convey. Andrews moved to Santiniketan in 1914 on leaving missionary service altogether. Another former missionary William Pearson was also teaching at Santiniketan. In November 1914 Gandhi’s boys from the Phoenix School also came to Santiniketan after leaving South Africa. On 12 November 1914 Pearson wrote to Gandhi: ‘Your big family arrived here last Saturday from the Gurukul all very well and happy.’

Fredrik Franson: Pioneer Mission Strategist

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-319
Author(s):  
Edvard Torjesen ◽  
H. Wilbert (Will) Torjesen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Global Mission ◽  
Mission Agencies ◽  
Six Nations ◽  
Founding Director ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Missionary Service ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The Church

Rev. Fredrik Franson was the founding director of the Scandinavian Alliance Mission (now The Evangelical Alliance Mission, TEAM). The English-speaking world knows very little about the contribution to the global mission of the church by Swedish-born Fredrik Franson. He was a product of the spiritual revivals in nineteenth-century Scandinavia. Franson was a world evangelist, recruiter, teacher, and trainer of missionaries to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. He collaborated with Hudson Taylor and A. B. Simpson in sending missionaries to inland China. Franson founded sixteen mission agencies and church denominations in six nations during his ministry of 33 years. Scores of missionaries were motivated to missionary service by Fredrik Franson's incredible ministry. In this article H. Wilbert Norton uses the 858-page definitive biography, A Study of Fredrick Franson, by Edvard Paul Torjesen, to sketch a portrait of Franson's life and work.

Assessing Families (Not Just Individuals) for Missionary Service

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred C. Gingrich
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Assessment ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Assessment Techniques ◽  
Missionary Service ◽  
Mission Service ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

The assessment of missionaries tends to focus on the adult members of the family unit being approved for service. Yet, the family is the one consistent relational network that missionaries are connected to throughout the pre-field, on the field, and post-field phases of mission service. In addition, throughout the history of missions sending bodies have struggled to balance the needs of the missions context, the ministry gifts that the adult members of the family bring to the field, and the dynamics of their marital and family relationships. While the literature on missionary children has grown significantly, adopting a perspective that prioritizes the family unit as the unit being “sent” may result in helpful information regarding missionary attrition and longevity. Therefore, assessing missionary families, not only the individual members of the family, at the various stages of missionary service is warranted. Using concepts and techniques from systems theory, a model and logistical factors for assessing missionary families are presented, along with suggestions for whom to assess, what to assess, and how to conduct family assessment. Resources and possible assessment techniques are also provided.

scholarly journals Anna Irbe un misijas darbs Karunagarapuri

Ceļš ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
Kristīna Ēce
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Caste System ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
The People ◽  
Theology Of Mission ◽  
Tamil Nadu State ◽  
Missionary Service ◽  
Mission Service ◽  
The Village ◽  
Mission Field

This year, we celebrate the 130th anniversary of the birth of Latvian missionary Anna Irbe (1890–1973). She was an extraordinary woman and one of the first missionaries that went from Latvia into the mission field in Southern India. This paper examines her approach to missionary work, which was very innovative at the time and quite successful. It also discusses Irbe’s motives and philosophy of missionary service. Irbe very strongly stood against the theology of mission of the time, which held that Western missionaries were the ones bringing the culture to the poor heathens. She very acutely recognized that many of the Westerners, including some missionaries, held a supremacy attitude. She was willing to learn – she acquired the Tamil language, sought to understand the culture, differences in the caste system, and the attitudes of fellow missionaries. From her observations, she made a decision to do everything with an Indian style so that her work would not be considered foreign by local beneficiaries of the mission, which allowed her to be very successful in her ministry. Soon after the start of her ministry, Irbe developed a “Latvian village in India” called Karunagarapuri, which is located in the Coimbatore area, Tamil Nadu state. The name of the ­village means “The village of the most merciful God.” Irbe also recognized that the Gospel was always connected with culture, and therefore she was very open to discover and learn new things about Indian culture by visiting various temples and museums and meeting people of different castes. She was very open to ecumenism and was ready to use any opportunity to see where signs of God’s mercy could be noticed. During her ministry, she tried to fully identify with the local people, which was not the most common attitude among missionaries of that time. Overall, Irbe’s mission service and sacrifice brought plentiful fruit and it could be said that in her attitude and love towards the people of India, she was an extraordinary woman ahead of her time

scholarly journals Calling and preparation for missionary service in the life of believers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons)

2019 ◽  
pp. 93-110
Author(s):  
Sergiusz Anoszko
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
Missionary Training ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Missionary Service ◽  
The Church

Serving on a mission is almost an indispensable part of the image of the adherents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as Mormons, quasi-Christian new religious movement. The next text attempts to analyse and take a closer look at the theme of calling and preparing for the ministry of being a missionary as an attribute of this Church that was founded by Joseph Smith. Starting from an upbringing in the family and social expectations of the Church’s members through education in the Missionary Training Center, we can follow the vocation path and the creative process of the future Mormon missionary who preach the Gospel in various corners of the world. Missionary ministry is important in the life of each Mormon believer, even those who didn’t serve as a missionary, because it leaves a lasting imprint and affects the minds of the members of this new religious group for the rest of their lives.

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