TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nguyen,VanThanh
AU  - Prior,John Mansford
TI  - God's people on the move: biblical and global perspectives on migration and mission 
SN  - 9781625640796
AV  - BR115.G59 G63 2014
KW  - Church work with immigrants
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Missions
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Missions - History - 21st Century
KW  - Emigration and immigration - Religious aspects - Christianity
KW  - Church Work With Immigrants
KW  - Globalization - Religious aspects - Christianity
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-183) and index; 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
N2  - Because of growing inequalities of wealth caused by unregulated economic globalization, political and ethnic conflicts, environmental degradation, instant communication, and viable means of transportation, more and more people are migrating than ever before. No countries or regions are immune from this reality. This collection of essays seeks to develop appropriate biblical and missiological responses to the issue of human migration and dislocation
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