This is a THEME PAPER ABSTRACT; the paper will be presented at the Jamaica Consultation on Creation Care and the Gospel in October, 2012. Comments are welcomed! View all abstracts. ———————————————————————————- Impacts of Human Induced Climate Change* Human activities,Read more…
Jamaica Consultation Theme Paper: Natural Disasters: Acts of God or Results of Human Folly?
This is a THEME PAPER ABSTRACT; the paper will be presented at the Jamaica Consultation on Creation Care and the Gospel in October, 2012. Comments are welcomed! View all abstracts. ———————————————————————————- We live in a world where the same naturalRead more…
Have Parents Stopped Using Common Sense?
Why have so many parents forgotten the common-sense approach to child rearing that has worked for generations? Why look for something new? Good question. People began losing confidence in the traditional approach to child rearing during the 1920s and 1930s.Read more…
Most Important Values to Teach Your Children
You make a convincing case that beauty and brains are false values that demoralize kids who don’t think they measure up. But what values do you suggest that I teach to my children? I believe the most valuable contribution aRead more…
Prepare Your Child for Independence
My sister’s daughter went off to college at eighteen and immediately went a little crazy. She had always been a good kid, but when she was on her own, she drank like a lush, was sexually promiscuous, and flunked threeRead more…
Strategic Summary
Recommendations for Institute Projects
Generosity Champions and Networks
Here’s two presentations. One describes what an advocate for generosity looks like, the other describes generosity networks as catalysts for generosity and stewardship. You may find these helpful tools in discussing generosity in your ministry.
Stewardship Ministries Life Stewardship Series Curriculum
The curriculum of a series of 4-6 studies for use in small groups developed by Stewardship Ministries (www.stewardshipministries.org). For more information on the studies visit www.stewardshipministries.org/resources/life-stewardship-small-group-study/
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Improve mission giving through a strategic process.
A global understanding of the cultural context of stewardship
A presentation on the direction of mission giving in the 21st Century given at the Lausanne Resource Mobilization Working Group consultation in Washington in February 2008.