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Disability in Mission: The Church's Hidden Treasure
Disability in Mission: The Church's Hidden Treasure
Disability in Mission: The Church's Hidden Treasure
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Disability in Mission: The Church’s Hidden Treasure outlines a radical change in approaches to missiology, missions, and praxis for the twenty-first-century global cultural context. It explores a pattern whereby God works powerfully in missions through disability and not in spite of it. No matter what our disability or vulnerability may be, God can use us; and if the body of Christ is supportive, people with disability can be effective agents of transformation in the mission field. Via a number of case studies of people with disabilities who are involved in missions, and with robust biblical and missiological justification, this book examines the role of those with disability in missions.

Includes a foreword by Joni Eareckson Tada.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Foreword by Joni Eareckson Tada

Introduction by Nathan G. John

1. Disability and Biblical Weakness by David C. Deuel

2. Moses, Messenger of Weakness by David C. Deuel

3. Kingdom Impact through Weakness and Disability by Bonnie Baker Armistead

4. Unformed yet Ordained by J. M. Paul

5. Called and Equipped through Paraplegia by Barry Funnell

6. Paul the Leper and Olive the Servant by David C. Deuel

7. Being a Mission Partner with Disability in Kenya by Paul Lindoewood

8. People with Disabilities on Short-Term Mission by Jeff McNair

9. Weak to Weaker: For Children with Disabilities across the Globe by Natalie Flickner

10. Deciding to Go on Mission with Disability by Justin Reimer

11. Mission Possible: The Role of Member Care in Mobilizing Workers with Disabilities by Deanna Richey

Conclusion: Disability and Mission: For His Glory by Nathan G. John

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Release dateOct 5, 2021
ISBN9781683072881
Disability in Mission: The Church's Hidden Treasure
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Joni Eareckson Tada

Joni Eareckson Tada es directora ejecutiva de Joni and Friends [Joni y sus amigos], una organización que maximiza el alcance cristiano en la comunidad de discapacitados. Ellos brindan apoyo práctico y ayuda espiritual a familias con necesidades especiales en todo el mundo y equipan a miles de iglesias en el desarrollo del ministerio con los discapacitados. Joni es autora de numerosos libros de gran éxito de ventas, como Cuando Dios llora, Diamonds in the Dust [Diamantes en el polvo], Un paso más (ganadora del Gold Medallion Award), y su último devocional galardonado A Spectacle of Glory [Un espectáculo de gloria]. Ella y su esposo Ken han estado casados por treinta y cinco años. Para obtener más información sobre Joni and Friends, visita www.joniandfriends.org.

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