Missionaries of Charity - Mother Teresa Missionaries of Charity is a Roman Catholic religious congregation established in 1950 by Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta. It consists of over 4‚501 religious sisters and is active in 133 countries. Members of the order designate their affiliation using the order’s initials‚ "M.C." A member of the Congregation must adhere to the vows of chastity‚ poverty ‚obedience‚ and the fourth vow‚ to give "Wholehearted and Free service to the poorest of the poor."
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Informative Speech Outline Purpose: My purpose is to let the audience know what is a Missioner‚ what they do and how their lifestyle is. Central Idea: Missionaries are people who voluntarily go to a foreign country and spread the Gospel a. Introduction: b. Have you guys ever had a huge passion for something? That you talk about it all the time to everyone you know. You just want someone or any reason to bring it up so you can start talking about it again. You want everyone to know so maybe they
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Running Head: DEPRESSION AMONG MISSIONARIES Depression Among International Missionaries Jonathan E. Sullivan Liberty University Abstract Missionaries have a unique calling accompanied by unique challenges over the course of their service. As these individuals and families face these challenges‚ depression can be an enemy that hinders and even stops the good work they perform. While most of the time a professional counselor can be seen in the United States to help with depression‚ a therapist
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Israel and the Missionary Call It is extremely easy to get mixed signals in regard to Israel’s relation to foreign nations in the Old Testament. There seems to be a tension in whether God’s blessings are for Israel alone or for the entire world through Israel. I believe that the Old Testament has much evidence that would point to the fact that Israel is chosen by God the Father to not only be content being the chosen elect of God‚ but also to act as a sort of “missionaries” bringing God’s blessing
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Missionary Activities in Africa Student’s Name Instructor Name Course Code Date Institution Missionary Activities in Africa This essay explores the missionaries’ activities in Africa by looking at the landscape of the land that they encountered‚ the people that they interacted with and the experience that they acquired from the travel. The essay also focuses on the social aspect by looking at the impact the missionaries had on the indigenous people. Through studying the key missionaries
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Running head: PAUL ’S THREE MISSIONARY JOURNEYS Paul ’s Three Missionary Journeys Myra Faison Instructor Emerson Grand Canyon University BIB103 November 21‚ 2010 Paul ’s Three Missionary Journeys The Apostle Paul had a great influence on the spread on Christianity not only through his letters but through his missionary journeys as well. Paul‚ who’s Roman name was Saul‚ was born to Jewish parents in Tarsus‚ Cilcia which is present day Turkey in 3 AD. Paul’s parents belonged to the
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Greg Donner‚ a missionary kid from Swaziland‚ in his web article “Missionary Kids” (n.d.)‚ argues that being a missionary kid is a unique and rewarding experience that brings with it many challenges. He supports this claim by first demonstrating how many friendships end up being only surface relationships because MKs have a hard time relating to American culture (Par. 1-4)‚ then asserts that being a MK can be beneficial by broadening views of cultures‚ languages and “the world in general” (par. 5)
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Allen‚ Roland. Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours? Grand Rapids‚ MI: Eerdmans‚ 1962. 179 pp. Introduction to the Book The book being discussed is Roland Allen’s Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours? Allen was an Anglican minister who worked as a missionary in China between the years of 1895 and 1903 and eventually moved his work to Easy Africa. His experience on the foreign mission field developed a keen sense of the Holy Spirit’s place in the ministry of the missionary and his book reflects
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The First Missionary Journey of the Apostle Paul If you have ever picked up your Bible and opened up to the New Testament‚ chances are that you will open to a page written by the Apostle Paul‚ as he has written almost half of the books in the New Testament. You may wonder as you read about his journeys and the letter’s that he wrote to various communities‚ what it means to be an apostle. The Anchor Bible Dictionary states: “An apostle in the New Testament is an envoy‚ an ambassador‚ or a missionary
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EARLY PROTESTANT MISSIONARY EFFORTS IN THE PHILIPPINES: SOME INTERCULTURAL PROBLEMS1 1. Introduction As a trained social anthropologist‚ I would like to present the findings of a three-year research on the early impact of Protestant missionary efforts at the turn of the last century. Some of these could be useful not only to Filipinos but also to other Asian churches as we reflect on the future of Christian mission in Asia. It is important for us to grasp the fact that what we call Christianity
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