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The purpose statement I have chosen reflects the goal I have for the high schoolers in my youth group. It also lets others know why I want to work with youth in a Christian setting and in general. The purpose of Craftsman’s Heart is to Teach young people about God, crafting them into disciples equipped with Knowledge of the Gospel, so that they may Reach the lost of the world. Rationale:     The Bible is full of stories about people who need saving. Not just people alone, but whole countries and

day. As Americans we have an urge to go into these countries to help as much as possible because of that we have begun a revolution. Americans began going on mission trips around the 1960s but did not really pick up until the 1990s. The trend grew after multiple natural disasters, Americans saw and need and went, since then short term mission trips show no sign stopping anytime soon. As the popularity of leaving our comfort zones, many people have found issues with the way the trips are led to the

“The Mission” is a film that gives a historically accurate depiction of the events that took place in South America around 1750, displaying the jesuit missions and their attempt at expanding missionary ventures in the area. These missions foresaw the Jesuits going to uncharted areas of the jungle inhabited by the Guarani people, demonstrating the significance assimilating the Guarani people meant to the Jesuits. Additionally, the Guarani people were accurately displayed as a self-sustained society

When I read Things Fall Apart, I had a clear mind of what a life could be like Okonkwo’s. For the rest of the reading, a question was contacting me in different places of the novel. Okonkwo was an angry man in front of his Nigerian tribe and changed when Christian missionaries came to the Ibo village; also, I responded to the book, and my personal applications to a different culture were related to a missionary trip that was a powerful one back in 1956 in Ecuador. As I kept on reading, there

When viewing The Mission, there were some similarities that lined up with what we were learning in class, but much of it was not historically accurate. The movie takes place in South America where a Jesuit priest is there trying to convert the Guarani Indians. The native Indians, do not take this well and they tie the priest to a cross and push him overall a waterfall. Then, Father Gabriel arrives to continue the work on teaching the word of Christ to the Indians. When he arrives they appear but

In the movie "The Mission", there is a village of Indians in Africa who are destine to be sold into slavery, but a few Jesuits are trying to stop them. To try to make the slave traders, and representatives for the Spanish to change their thoughts, the Jesuits had a young Guaraní boy sing. His singing was truly wonderful but a Spanish states man, and plantation owner named Don Cabeza had a much more harsh attitude towards the boy. Cabeza said, "The Guaraní are jungle creatures with human voices."

Dana Roberts, in her book, Christian Mission; How Christianity Became A World Religion, makes a multitude of statements and provides very useful insight into how mission, specifically Christian mission, has historically been engaged through politically charged issues. Throughout this paper, I will use several of her examples to explain how Christianity has wiggled its way into the form of mission throughout the world. Examples will be show as to how some mission is indeed, following the statement

The 1986 film, The Mission tells a story of a Jesuit priest, Father Gabriel enters the Guarani lands in South America of wanting to convert the natives to Christianity. He builds a mission, where he is joined by Rodrigo Mendoza, a reformed slave trader seeking redemption on a missionary. When a treaty transfers the land from Spain to Portugal, the Portuguese government wants to capture the natives for slave labor. Mendoza and Gabriel resolve to defend the mission, but disagree on how to accomplish

Carus-Wilson is sister to Petrie, and wrote this book for the purpose of ensuring that her sister was remembered and honored by the community. The chapter being examined is entitled, “A Winter in Lahore”, and details Petrie’s first arrival to India and her mission work thereafter. The audience of this text can be identified as a variety of individuals involved in the Protestant Christian religion. It is evident that this book is written with the intent of praising missionaries, especially brave females like

Midterm Movies and books about missionaries haven’t portrayed missionaries in a positive light. Fiction writers and movie producers have led people on to believe, that missionaries are self-serving and as having specific intentions. One of the prime examples of misrepresenting a missionary; is the book called The Poisonwood Bible. I had to read The Poisonwood Bible in an English class. The Poisonwood Bible is the story of a missionary named Nathan Price and his family. Nathan was Reverend and he