{"title":"My Sense of Call as a Deacon","authors":"Gretchen Peterson","doi":"10.51644/vfmu9974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51644/vfmu9974","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77287,"journal":{"name":"NIH consensus statement","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86684916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"My Ministry as a Deacon","authors":"Lisa Chisholm-Smith","doi":"10.51644/lhja1254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51644/lhja1254","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77287,"journal":{"name":"NIH consensus statement","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76546814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sermon for Pentecost 9","authors":"Gretchen S. Peterson","doi":"10.51644/bxtm4709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51644/bxtm4709","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77287,"journal":{"name":"NIH consensus statement","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77829439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Signing of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification","authors":"G. Jensen","doi":"10.51644/cedx2997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51644/cedx2997","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77287,"journal":{"name":"NIH consensus statement","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79819798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
What insights might be gained from this region with respect to opportunities that may exist to provide spiritual care with, and for, those in similar sparsely populated regions and what innovative ways might be used to deliver that spiritual care? Abstract opulation loss in rural areas of Saskatchewan, and indeed across Canada, creates a challenging reality for those who remain behind. As rural populations dwindle there is also an accompanying loss of villages and towns along with businesses that served those population centers. This has created a crisis for those who continue to live and work in increasing isolation. Small town grocery stores, financial institutions, agricultural suppliers of all kinds, schools and health care facilities have closed in great numbers over the past thirty years, along with local churches that provided spiritual care to the community. Denominational leaders tried to meet the need for spiritual care by developing multi-point pastoral charges in areas of dwindling population, but, in recent years, many of these multi-point ministries have closed. The question that drove the research and writing of my D.Min. project revolved around the loss of organized local churches in rural areas of western Canada, and specifically Saskatchewan. Through the early stages of the project’s development, under the guidance and encouragement of my D.Min. cohort, my faculty advisor and my project advisor, my project area was narrowed down from an initial area of 12,000 km 2 covering much of west-central Saskatchewan to an area of approximately 1,900 km 2 covering the Rural Municipality (R.M.) of Lacadena in west-central Saskatchewan.
{"title":"Spiritual Care in Sparsely Populated Regions","authors":"Robin Haensel","doi":"10.51644/vcas3219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51644/vcas3219","url":null,"abstract":"What insights might be gained from this region with respect to opportunities that may exist to provide spiritual care with, and for, those in similar sparsely populated regions and what innovative ways might be used to deliver that spiritual care? Abstract opulation loss in rural areas of Saskatchewan, and indeed across Canada, creates a challenging reality for those who remain behind. As rural populations dwindle there is also an accompanying loss of villages and towns along with businesses that served those population centers. This has created a crisis for those who continue to live and work in increasing isolation. Small town grocery stores, financial institutions, agricultural suppliers of all kinds, schools and health care facilities have closed in great numbers over the past thirty years, along with local churches that provided spiritual care to the community. Denominational leaders tried to meet the need for spiritual care by developing multi-point pastoral charges in areas of dwindling population, but, in recent years, many of these multi-point ministries have closed. The question that drove the research and writing of my D.Min. project revolved around the loss of organized local churches in rural areas of western Canada, and specifically Saskatchewan. Through the early stages of the project’s development, under the guidance and encouragement of my D.Min. cohort, my faculty advisor and my project advisor, my project area was narrowed down from an initial area of 12,000 km 2 covering much of west-central Saskatchewan to an area of approximately 1,900 km 2 covering the Rural Municipality (R.M.) of Lacadena in west-central Saskatchewan.","PeriodicalId":77287,"journal":{"name":"NIH consensus statement","volume":"118 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75541569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effective Community Engagement through Ministry Projects","authors":"Ann J. Salmon","doi":"10.51644/bzje8592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51644/bzje8592","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77287,"journal":{"name":"NIH consensus statement","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90966291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Martin Luther and the Creation of the Myth of Modernity","authors":"Christine Helmer","doi":"10.51644/dexg6169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51644/dexg6169","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77287,"journal":{"name":"NIH consensus statement","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74897140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Halfway to Everywhere: What Churches can learn about Community Vibrancy From its Professional & Entrepreneurial Women","authors":"Catherine L. Holland","doi":"10.51644/nnpx3862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51644/nnpx3862","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77287,"journal":{"name":"NIH consensus statement","volume":"211 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79883940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
small community, especially one situated at some distance from larger centers, has a distinct life-story of its own. It consists of the families and individuals who inhabit it, the businesses that feed its economic well-being, the professions that care for it, and the churches that nurture its spiritual life. Its lifeblood is the network of past and present relationships that hold and transmit the stories; these stories are the lives that pass through the community, and the ones that stay. In fact, one could see each community as a living, dynamic story enacting its own narrative within the larger context of the region, the nation, and the world. Like any good story, the community narrative is complex, with many interactions, relationships, and sub-stories that move forward. However, unlike the typical story, the community story is not (nor should it be) ever finalized. Even when communities disappear from the ever-changing geographical and political map, their stories live on in the individuals and families whose historical and present lives help to shape the future reality of a new community. The core questions were explored by analyzing the roles played by the churches, not only in spiritual life but also in the social life and justice-making with in the community. In addition, I examined the role of the churches as story-holders and place-anchors for the families both present and former.
{"title":"Connections: Church in Community","authors":"S. Christian","doi":"10.51644/lvpl1299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51644/lvpl1299","url":null,"abstract":"small community, especially one situated at some distance from larger centers, has a distinct life-story of its own. It consists of the families and individuals who inhabit it, the businesses that feed its economic well-being, the professions that care for it, and the churches that nurture its spiritual life. Its lifeblood is the network of past and present relationships that hold and transmit the stories; these stories are the lives that pass through the community, and the ones that stay. In fact, one could see each community as a living, dynamic story enacting its own narrative within the larger context of the region, the nation, and the world. Like any good story, the community narrative is complex, with many interactions, relationships, and sub-stories that move forward. However, unlike the typical story, the community story is not (nor should it be) ever finalized. Even when communities disappear from the ever-changing geographical and political map, their stories live on in the individuals and families whose historical and present lives help to shape the future reality of a new community. The core questions were explored by analyzing the roles played by the churches, not only in spiritual life but also in the social life and justice-making with in the community. In addition, I examined the role of the churches as story-holders and place-anchors for the families both present and former.","PeriodicalId":77287,"journal":{"name":"NIH consensus statement","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87476853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}