2011-2012 Living Mission—Act Justly
Available March 2011

 
The second year of Living Mission, NMI’s new adult mission education resource, includes several changes you have requested:
 

• More mission content and stories in print and video.
• More print content, without decreasing amount of video.
• Adequate content for 10 or more monthly lessons.
• Simpler design on handouts (black/white and less ink used when copied).
• Distribution of all lessons at once during convention, rather than in two releases.
• Lesson planner will be easier to read and use: larger print size and more specific guidance for the leader to know what to say and how to use the resources. The planner will have 64, rather than 32, pages.
• Lessons will be story-based, focusing on concrete mission activities of the Church of the Nazarene. Media components will remain and will retain quality, but lessons will not be as dependent on them. Video will be used to enhance and amplify lessons.

 

Lesson topics and CAUSES (and their purposes or descriptions) will include:

 
Clean Water

• To help people understand that unsafe drinking water is one of the world’s biggest killers
• To engage people with stories of how the Nazarene Global Mission is bringing Christ’s love to world areas through the provision of safe drinking water
• To educate people about what they can do to provide clean water to people in various locations around the globe

 

Mission to Women

• To explain why mission efforts specific to women are necessary
• To learn how Nazarene Global Mission is ministering among women

 
Global Melting Pot

• To help people understand that mission—ministry to those in another culture—is a specialized skill requiring not only language school but also special education in the values, behaviors, and traditions of other cultures
• To discuss xenophobia—fear of foreigners and strangers—and to engage people with stories of how xenophobia affects mission and what processes are necessary to combat this problem
• To understand that this is not simply an issue for those from the West; there are many examples of Nazarene missionaries from other parts of the world who must also confront this issue

 
Mission to the Disabled

• To help people understand that, because of the lack of government assistance to the disabled in most countries, having a physical handicap is often tantamount or comparable to a slow death sentence due to the many problems that often accompany disabilities
• To learn what Nazarene Global Mission is doing regarding care for the physically challenged around the world
• To engage people with opportunities to assist Nazarene efforts in ministry to the disabled

 
Sanctity of Life

• To help people understand that all forms of violence threatens the sanctity of life wherever it occurs, and that ministering to those who have been hurt not only fulfills Christ’s command to care for the least of these but also models God’s love in Christian witness
• To learn how issues of violence and the sanctity of life intersect with missions in the Church of the Nazarene, providing opportunity to show God’s love, and also discover how these issues present obstacles and danger to the mission work and the workers
• To engage people with stories of how Nazarene missions intersects with the issues of violence and to engage them in prayer for the safety of our missionaries as well as support of global efforts to alleviate pain

 
Child Labor

• To help people understand that millions of children are being forced to work to maintain subsistence living and that this condition creates physical and developmental hazards
• To learn what Global Mission and Nazarene Missions International are doing specific to the topic of child labor around the globe
• To engage people with stories of how Nazarene mission work intersects with the problem of child labor

 
CAUSE—Clean Water—Nine weeks’ worth of activities for your church to help provide clean water in world mission areas.

CAUSE—JESUS Film—Nine weeks’ worth of activities to help your people understand the ministry of the JESUS Film and to allow for participation in one or more of the many ministries within JESUS Film Harvest Partners.
 
 

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