Transfer of Ministries and Partnership

ISBN-13: 9783639152975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 204 str.

Steven Estes

Opis

Should missionaries have the goal of transferringtheir ministries to national control? If so whatfacilitates and what inhibits the transfer of aministry? What are the advantages and disadvantagesof a transfer? When should expatriates and nationalswork together in an ongoing partnership? What are theadvantages and disadvantages of a partnership? Thisbook tackles these questions through a literaturereview and interviews carried out in Argentina.Finances, doctrine, missionary attitudes, missionaryconcern about transferred ministries, mission agencystructure, and national church structure are treatedas they relate to ministry transfer and partnership.The literature review and interview results revealthe complexity of deciding between complete ministrytransfer and partnership. There are advantages toeach and neither is a perfect situation. This studyincludes a checklist for those considering a transferand another checklist for those considering apartnership. Expatriate missionaries and nationalswill find much food for thought in this volume. Thisinvestigation should also be of interest to thoseworking cross-culturally in community development.

O autorze

Steven L. Estes, D.Miss, School of Intercultural Studies, Biola
University, has served as a missionary to Argentina for 28 years
with WorldVenture. He works in church planting, teaches at the
Seminario Bautista Evangélica Argentina and tutors
distance-learning students of the seminary.