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Leading Financial Sustainability in Theological Institutions

The role of theological institutions in Christian mission is likened to the crucible that shapes the hearts and minds of those leading the charge to reconcile the world to God. Nevertheless, it is also the weakest link in the chain of Christian ministry, and efforts to sustain the unique contribution of institutions have been enigmatic. So why should we be concerned about theological institutions? What if there were no theologians, missiologists, trained pastors, or missionaries in Christian ministry? What if there were no theological institutions? What if the existing theological institutions collapsed, shut down for lack of resources? How effective would the witness of the Christian church be without theological institutions in a world in need of God? Over the centuries, various models for supporting theological training have been tried in institutions, but very few of these have been successful. Time, cost, and quality of education (among others) have been the driving forces behind the changing models, and yet financial sustainability has been elusive. Only informed leadership that draws insights from historical, biblical, and practical wisdom is necessary in achieving this goal. This book is your faithful companion in the quest to achieve financial sustainability in theological institutions.

When Helping Works

Michael Bamwesigye Badriaki

Today, people from various parts of the world who are interested in helping fellow human beings impacted by famine, epidemics, wars, and poverty are uniquely positioned. They are interconnected due to globalization's impact, which also has implications for intercultural work and global missions. The ability to help people is a constructive asset, which calls for the need to build friendships and partnerships across the globe. Helping well depends on a number of factors, yet this book looks into the impact of stereotype threat and its effects on intercultural identities, the perceptions of others, and performance in intercultural missions. Human interactions continue to suffer due to fears, anxious reactions about confirming negative stereotypes about a person's identity, abilities, and effectiveness in global missions. Stereotype threat happens when caricatures and negative understandings about people's identities are invoked.

Unforgettable

W. Michael Gray

We have an uneasy relationship with the relentless deluge of information gushing out of academia and our media outlets. To turn it off is escapist, but to attempt to cognitively grapple with it is overwhelming. In Unforgettable: Enabling Deep and Durable Learning, a nationally recognized master teacher gives professors and their students the means to chart a clear path through this information explosion. Humans crave explanatory patterns, and this book enables teachers to think deeply about their academic disciplines to find and articulate their core explanatory principles and to engage their students in a compelling way of thinking. An alternative title for this book could be Why the Best College Teachers Do What They Do because the author articulates a compelling rationale that will equip faculty to create and deliver transformative courses. Students in transformative courses grapple with essential questions and gain mental muscle that equips them for real world challenges.

The Power of Life Coaching

Holley Swanson Clough

University adult programs are recruiting and retaining the fastest growing student segment in higher education. Yet, two of the biggest challenges faced by Christian colleges and universities today are declining enrollment and decreasing student retention rates. With adult learners, both on campus and online, as the fastest growing student market, schools need to adapt to accommodate this complex student population. The Power of Life Coaching: A Model for Academic Recruitment and Retention offers a how-to guide for faculty and administration of adult programs desiring to address these challenges while transforming the lives of students they lead and serve. Comparative research contrasting key missional alignment indicators at several universities determined that life coaching has the greatest transformational impact on the life of the student. In response, this academic coaching model was developed based on adult experiential learning, patterned after Christ's training of the disciples. This text is theologically and theoretically based, delivering a technique of coaching for student satisfaction, which will lead to increased retention rates. The Power of Life Coaching is a manual for assisting faculty members and teams to more fully embrace and live out their calling and faith.

On Being Human(e)

Jan Hábl

There is a difference between that which is and that which is to be. Anthropologically: there is a way I am, and the way I am to be, or not to be. How are we to explain this? This book presents the argument that human nature is both complex and complicated in at least two specific ways–ontologically and ethically. In our being we are indisputably good, dignified, worthy, important, or even noble. But in our morality we are ambivalent–capable of both good and evil, the humane and the inhumane. In his paramount work Jan Amos Comenius expresses the goal of his lifelong endeavor: «to help keep man from falling into a non-man» (Pampaedia). If human beings are to become what they ought to be, they need to be educated towards humanity, says Comenius. But the fundamental question is, what is a human being? And what ought one to be? «Salt ought to be salty. A river ought to be clear. A knife ought to be sharp. But what ought a person to be?» What is the essence of our humanity? And how can that be cultivated or educated? This book presents Comenius's answers to these questions.

Woman of Nobility

Nina Kathryn Bissett

In the late 1800s a supremely qualified woman educator and administrator made an unforgettable imprint on well-known missionaries, educators, and preachers. Emma Dryer worked with Pacific Garden Mission's George and Sarah Clarke, Methodist deaconess Lucy Rider Meyer, Wheaton College President Charles Blanchard, Anna Spafford–whose husband wrote the beloved hymn It is Well with My Soul–and many others. However, her greatest achievement came from her divinely guided association with evangelist Dwight L. Moody. Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, with its compelling and far-reaching ministries, would undoubtedly not exist today if not for the driving missionary fervor of Emma Dryer. Her story is finally being told in light of this association. A close examination of her ministry relationship with Mr. Moody reveals the interconnected aspects of their lives from a viewpoint never before written. This includes examining their leadership styles and effectiveness in modern day terms as well as contrasting their learning styles, strengths, and weaknesses as both evangelist and educator. This book represents the first biography of Emma Dryer's life with undying evidence of the answered prayers of a noble and virtuous woman who dedicated her life to serve and honor Christ until his eminent return.

Giving a Voice to the Voiceless

Christopher Yuan

The problem this project addresses is the sense of marginalization experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) and same-sex attracted (SSA) Christian college and university students. Data was collected via an online questionnaire and the study design mixed methods with an emphasis on the qualitative data. The study sample included eighty students/alumni from thirty-two Christian colleges/universities. Generally, respondents felt lonely, hid their sexuality, and reported a negative campus climate. Recommendations from respondents include: institutional policies must be clearer and applied consistently, improve campus climate, and form support groups for LGB and SSA students.

CrowdAsset

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Crowdfunding is already transforming the way many entrepreneurs and enterprises around the globe think about community engagement and fundraising for various causes. This book puts forth the belief that policymakers, public servants and various governments, municipalities and regions can significantly benefit from crowdfunding through employing crowd-related mechanisms within their frameworks and using their crowd as an asset — a crowdasset. Using real-world examples, this book explores the opportunities presented by crowdfunding and crowdfunded innovation, and how major policymakers are already using crowdfunding and crowd mechanisms to accelerate innovation, engagement and community transformation. A guide for those involved in crowdfunding, CrowdAsset brings readers through the journey of maximising crowd impact.Contents: <ul><li>The Crowdfunding Opportunity:<ul><li>Introduction to Crowdfunding (Tim Wright, Dan Marom and Oliver Gajda)</li></ul></li><li>Our Framework:<ul><li>The Framework (Tim Wright, Dan Marom and Oliver Gajda)</li></ul></li><li>Crowdfunding in Action:<ul><li>Societal Impact:<ul><li>Civic Crowdfunding, Equity, and the Role of Government (David J Weinberger)</li><li>The Design of Paying Publics (Ann Light and Jo Briggs)</li><li>The Patronicity Crowdgranting Model (Ebrahim Varachia)</li><li>Match-Funding Calls for Open Crowdfunding: The Experience from Goteo.Org in New Policies for Crowdvocacy (Enric Senabre Hidalgo, Mayo Fuster Morell, Cristina Moreno de Alborán and Olivier Schulbaum)</li></ul></li><li>Civic and City Level:<ul><li>Co-Creating Cities — Practical Experiences from Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding Urban Areas in Turin, Brussels, and London (Conny Weber and Reinhard Willfort)</li><li>Crowdfunding Social or Community-Focused Projects (Jonathan Bone)</li><li>Crowdfund London: Civic Crowdfunding as a Tool for Collaborative Urban Regeneration in London (James Parkinson)</li><li>Lessons Learned from Civic Crowdfunding and Match-Funding Schemes in Europe (Francesca Passeri)</li><li>Civic Crowdfunding in Milan: Between Grass-Roots Actors and Policy Opportunities (Carolina Pacchi and Ivana Pais)</li></ul></li><li>State and Government Level:<ul><li>Crowdfund Angus: The Impact of Public-Level Crowdfunding (Shelley Hague)</li><li>Initiative Comes at a Cost: Russian Experience of Crowdfunding for Policymakers (Evgeny P Torkanovskiy)</li><li>From Crowdfunding Initiative to Fintech Hub: Lithuanian Case (Arvydas Paškevičius, Leva Astrauskaitė and Sigitas Mitkus)</li><li>Civic Crowdfunding in Germany — An Overview of the Developing Landscape in Germany (Karsten Wenzlaff)</li><li>Crowdfunding Act: Accelerating the Growth of Crowdfunding Market in Finland (Ilkka Harju and Aki Kallio)</li><li>Crowdsourcing Ideas for Public Investment: The Experience of Youth Participatory Budgeting in Portugal (Susana Jacinta Queirós Bernardino and José de Freitas Santos)</li><li>Crowdfunding — The Indonesian Experience (Anton Root)</li><li>Intrastate Crowdfunding: Achieving Its Full Potential as an Economic Development Tool (Amy Cortese)</li></ul></li><li>Pan National:<ul><li>Will the Proposed European Crowdfunding Regulation Lead to a 'True' European Market for Crowdfunding? (Sebastiaan Niels Hooghiemstra)</li><li>Crowdfunding for Civic and Development Projects (Robert Pasicko and Marina Petrovic)</li></ul></li><li>Blockchain and Cryptocurrency:<ul><li>Relationships among Crowdassets, Crowdfunding, and ICOs for Civic Engagement (Angelo Miglietta and Emanuele Mario Parisi)</li><li>The Berkeley Blockchain Initiative — Crypto Municipal Bonds: Addressing the Challenge of Homelessness and a Whole Lot More (Tim Wright)</li></ul></li></ul></li><li>Conclusion:<ul><li>Making It Happen (Tim Wright, Oliver Gajda and Dan Marom)</li></ul></li></ul> Readership: Policymakers and those involved in crowdfunding activities.Crowdfunding;Crowdsourcing;Crowd;Public;Policymakers;Government;State;Municipalities;Civic Crowdfunding;Civic Society;Citizen Engagement0Key Features:<ul><li>Authors and contributors are well-known experts from around the world providing various synergetic viewpoints</li><li>Hands-on guide with best practices, insights, tools and frameworks</li><li>Timely in addressing budgetary challenges faced by organisations</li></ul>

sources of contemporary genocide

John Bart Gerald

A radical look at the risk of contemporary genocide in France, the American South, Myanmar, Libya, elsewhere. This book is against forgetting. For twenty years the author has placed genocide warnings on the website nighislantern.ca, attempting to protect victim peoples across the world. Through the past ten years this reveals patterns of oppression which have led to genocide. These sequences of history further the struggle to recognize genocide, to avoid complicity. to confront the atrocities of our times and survive the future.

Every Minute Matters [Grades K-5]

Molly Ness

Make the most of every instructional minute with engaging literacy activities Teachers are faced with a real challenge: time. There is never enough time to do it all. While teachers don’t have the power to create more minutes in the day, they do have the power to be effective with the time given. Ness introduces 40 innovative activities designed to replace seatwork. These literacy-rich alternatives for classroom transitions are presented alongside ·         Research on instructional time ·         Strategies for maximizing every minute of instruction ·         Suggestions for improving efficiency to expand independent reading and writing ·         Reflective practices to help teachers examine how they use the time they have