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Strangers next door : immigration, migration, and mission / J.D. Payne.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Books, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 0830863419
  • 9780830863419
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 259.086/91 23
LOC classification:
  • BV2695.E4 P39 2012
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Immigration, migration, and kingdom perspective -- What in the world is God doing? -- The world's unreached in the West -- Migration and kingdom expansion, part 1 -- Migration and kingdom expansion, part 2 -- Migration and the West, 1500-2010 -- Students on the move -- Refugees on the move -- Stories from the field -- Guidelines for reaching the strangers next door -- A suggested strategy for reaching the strangers next door -- Diaspora missiology: a conclusion or just the beginning?
Summary: More than ever, North America is being flooded by people from all around the world, many of them here illegally. How should the church respond to these sojourners among us?In Strangers Next Door professor of evangelism and church planting J. D. Payne introduces the phenomenon of migrations of peoples to Western nations and explores how the church should respond in light of the mission of God. As we understand and embrace the fact that the least-reached people groups now reside in (and continue to migrate to) Western countries, churches have unprecedented opportunites to freely share the gospel with them.This book includes practical guidelines for doing crosscultural missions and developing a global strategy of mission. It also highlights examples of churches and organizations attempting to reach, partner with, and send migrants to minister to their people. Discover how you can reach out to the strangers next door by welcoming them into God's family.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)637969

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Immigration, migration, and kingdom perspective -- What in the world is God doing? -- The world's unreached in the West -- Migration and kingdom expansion, part 1 -- Migration and kingdom expansion, part 2 -- Migration and the West, 1500-2010 -- Students on the move -- Refugees on the move -- Stories from the field -- Guidelines for reaching the strangers next door -- A suggested strategy for reaching the strangers next door -- Diaspora missiology: a conclusion or just the beginning?

Print version record.

More than ever, North America is being flooded by people from all around the world, many of them here illegally. How should the church respond to these sojourners among us?In Strangers Next Door professor of evangelism and church planting J. D. Payne introduces the phenomenon of migrations of peoples to Western nations and explores how the church should respond in light of the mission of God. As we understand and embrace the fact that the least-reached people groups now reside in (and continue to migrate to) Western countries, churches have unprecedented opportunites to freely share the gospel with them.This book includes practical guidelines for doing crosscultural missions and developing a global strategy of mission. It also highlights examples of churches and organizations attempting to reach, partner with, and send migrants to minister to their people. Discover how you can reach out to the strangers next door by welcoming them into God's family.