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Deeply Woven Roots

Improving the Quality of Life in Your Community
  • ISBN-13: 9780800630959
  • Publisher: 1517 MEDIA
    Imprint: AUGSBURG BOOKS
  • By Gary Gunderson, Foreword by Jimmy Carter
  • Price: AUD $54.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 24/01/1998
  • Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 160 pages Weight: 247g
  • Categories: Christianity [HRC]
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With insight born of experience and conviction, The Carter Center's Gary Gunderson suggests ways that congregations, religious leaders, and concerned individuals can take practical steps to improve the health of their communities.As governmental involvement in alleviating social problems wanes, Gunderson argues, congregations are uniquely positioned to feed the roots that build and sustain community life. Their commitment can make the difference in addressing such problems as violence, substance abuse, housing, nutrition, and public health. His book shows why congregations matter, how religious commitment helps people transcend the individualism of today's world, what singular powers religious persons can bring to their communities, and how parishes can train people in skills for knowledge-building and community-building. He then offers a model of what a congregation in the year 2010 might be doing to improve the health of its larger neighborhood.Eminently practical yet deeply religious, Gunderson's book will help people of faith nurture community life at its roots.
Gary Gunderson is VP of Faith and Health Ministries, Medical Center Administration, Wake Forest School of Medicine. He is responsible for a national program mobilizing faith groups around a broad range of health issues.
Acknowledgments Preface 1. Deeply Woven Roots 2. Strength to Accompany 3. Strength to Convene 4. Strength to Connect 5. Strength to Tell Stories 6. Strength to Give Sanctuary 7. Strength to Bless 8. Strength to Pray 9. Strength to Endure Appendix Notes Index
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