Peoples on the Move provides pastors, church planters, and missionaries with the tools they need to walk out their door and learn the unique dynamics of their neighborhoods in order to formulate effective strategies for ministry. The book takes a practical approach and contains many examples of how the research is done as well as how community research translates to ministry strategy. It reads like one is walking the streets with the author as he apprentices a new generation of church planters and missionaries.
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Anthony F. Casey. Peoples on the Move
Peoples on the Move
Table of Contents
Foreword
Why Community Research?
Culture Learning in the Bible
Culture Unites, Culture Divides
The Tools and Process of Research
Reviewing the Literature. and Preexisting Data
Site Access and Informants
Participant Observation
Qualitative Interviewing
Data Analysis
Writing Up and Applying the Research
Special Considerations for. Multicultural Research and Ministry
Short-Term, Team-Based. Ethnographic Research
Bibliography
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Community Research for Ministry and Missions
Anthony F. Casey
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Layout of the Book
At times, I have come across people who are suspicious of community research and the social sciences behind it. They see it as somehow unbiblical and unnecessary. In response to this mindset, I walk through the Bible in chapter 2 exploring how God’s people have always sought to be learners in their communities and places of ministry. Effective ministry needs close proximity so we follow Jesus’ model of incarnational living and make our homes in the places where we minister. We can learn much about taking the posture of a learner who is fully engaged in his or her community from examining the lives of key biblical figures such as Joseph, Moses, Daniel, and the Apostle Paul.
