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God's people on the move : biblical and global perspectives on migration and mission / edited by vanThanh Nguyen and John M. Prior.

Contributor(s): Nguyen, VanThanh, 1965- [editor.] | Prior, John Mansford [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: xvii, 186 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781625640796 (pbk.); 162564079XSubject(s): Church work with immigrants | Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Globalization -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Missions -- History -- 21st centuryBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-183) and index.
Contents:
Biblical perspectives on migration and mission -- Abraham on the move: the outpouring of God's blessing through a migrant / Sarita D. Gallagher -- Israel's ancestors as germin: a lesson of biblical hospitality / Timothy A. Lenchak, SVD -- Coming to Gath: migration as mission among the Philistines / Robert L. Gallagher -- Jesus' migrations and liminal withdrawals in Matthew / Paul Hertig -- Migrants as missionaries: the case of Priscilla and Aquila / vanThanh Nguyen -- Paul and Barnabas in Lystra: lessons for crossing cultural boundaries in ministry / Amy C. West -- Contemporary issues of migration and mission -- Undocumented workers in the U.S.: a challenge from the Good Samaritan / Timothy A. Lenchak, SVD -- Mission in an urban culture of displacement: a missional theology of place for the North American church / Craig S. Hendrickson -- Migrancy, exile, mission: missional readings of exilic texts in Francophone migrant churches in Pretoria / Philemon G. Beghela -- "Failed" migrants return: a transforming word from the Book of Ruth / John Mansford Prior -- Reading Acts missionally in a city of migrants / George M. Wieland -- Current trends of migration in Asia: prospects and challenges / vanThanh Nguyen.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-183) and index.

Part I: Biblical perspectives on migration and mission -- Abraham on the move: the outpouring of God's blessing through a migrant / Sarita D. Gallagher -- Israel's ancestors as germin: a lesson of biblical hospitality / Timothy A. Lenchak, SVD -- Coming to Gath: migration as mission among the Philistines / Robert L. Gallagher -- Jesus' migrations and liminal withdrawals in Matthew / Paul Hertig -- Migrants as missionaries: the case of Priscilla and Aquila / vanThanh Nguyen -- Paul and Barnabas in Lystra: lessons for crossing cultural boundaries in ministry / Amy C. West -- Part II: Contemporary issues of migration and mission -- Undocumented workers in the U.S.: a challenge from the Good Samaritan / Timothy A. Lenchak, SVD -- Mission in an urban culture of displacement: a missional theology of place for the North American church / Craig S. Hendrickson -- Migrancy, exile, mission: missional readings of exilic texts in Francophone migrant churches in Pretoria / Philemon G. Beghela -- "Failed" migrants return: a transforming word from the Book of Ruth / John Mansford Prior -- Reading Acts missionally in a city of migrants / George M. Wieland -- Current trends of migration in Asia: prospects and challenges / vanThanh Nguyen.

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