2004
FRIDAY PRAYER SERIES LIBRARY
The reflections on integral mission, and statistics on the Millennium Development Goals, featured each week in the Friday Prayer Series, have become a library of resources for preparing presentations, sermons and learning materials.
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2004
Friday Dec 17 Being an Advocate
Nehemiah 1-2; Exodus 2-5
Reflection: by Rosie Robinson taken from 'Footsteps' - a journal for Christian development workers published by Tearfund UK.
Friday Dec 10 Wanted! God's earth in need of responsible stewards
Proverbs 16
Reflection: Speech given at the international launch of Micah Challenge by Archdeacon Tai Matalavea, Anglican Observer to the United Nations.
Friday Dec 3 Neighbourliness - more important than burnt offerings
Mark 12: 28-34
Reflection: Speeches given at the international launch of Micah Challenge by Rev Gary Simpson, Senior Pastor of Concorde Baptist Church Brooklyn, NY; and Rev Joel Edwards, General Director of Evangelical Alliance UK.
Friday Nov 26 Rebuilding bonds of trust in Peru
Luke 14: 15-24
Reflection: Speech given at the international launch of Micah Challenge by Alfonso Wieland, Director of 'Peace and Hope', Peru
Friday Nov 19 Where will the resources come from?
John 6
Reflection: Speech given at the international launch of Micah Challenge by Fidelis Wainaina, Founder and Director of Interchristian Child Self Help Group, kenya
Friday Nov 12 Together we can do it!
Nehemiah 4: 1-23
Reflection: Speech by Bishop Paul Mususu at the international launch of Micah Challenge
Friday Nov 5 Did we give the thirsty something to drink?
Luke 3, 1-14
Reflection: Speech by the Archbishop of Cape Town at the international launch of Micah Challenge
Friday Oct 22 Feeding the five thousand - a foolish gesture?
Matt 14:13-21, Mark 6:30-44, Luke 9:10-17, John 6:1-15
Reflection: Anita Payne, advisor on policy with Micah Challenge and currently working in Liberia.
Friday Oct 8 & 15
Like Moses - we always perish outside the promised land
Reflection Deuteronomy 34 and Matthew 24: 36-51.
Reflection: by Dr Steve de Gruchy, Director, Programme on Theology and Development, School of Theology, University of Natal.
Friday Sept 24 The source of Christian social action
Matthew 5:3-10
Reflection: a study by Dewi Hughes, Theological Advisor Tearfund UK
Friday Sept 17 True Greatness
Mark 10:35 -37
Reflection: article by Lawrence Temfwe, Director of Jubilee Centre, Zambia
Friday Sept 10 In the Kingdom of Friends
Micah 6:8 and 1 John 3: 17-18
Reflection: song lyrics by Steve Bevis
Friday Sept 3
Where earth and heaven meet - round the dinner table
Luke 16:19-31 & Rev 21:1-7
Reflection: sermon by Jeanette Mathews, Canberra Baptist Church
Friday August 27
Light and salt - Christian participation in society
Matthew 5:13-16
Reflection:by John Olley, former Principal of the Baptist Theological College of Western Australia and Lecturer in Old Testament and Missiology.
Friday August 20 The Company we Keep
Luke 15: 1-10
Reflection: by Steve Bradbury, Director of Tear Australia; Co-Chair, Micah Challenge (taken from a series on Luke called ‘Champion of the Outsiders’)
Friday August 13 Integral Mission, Humility and Lifestyle
1 Corinthians 4
Reflection: taken from a talk by CB Samuel, Director of Prabhaav (Association of Christian Services, India) and delivered at the Micah Network consultation in Oxford 2001
Friday August 6 The Vocation of the Poor
Luke 3, 1-14
Reflection: Excerpt from the article "Of Agency, Assets and Appreciation: seeking some commonalities between theology and development by" Dr Steve de Gruchy.
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Friday July 30 Liberating Leadership into Mission
Ephesians 4:11-16
Reflection: article by Stephen Rand, Co-chair of Jubilee Debt Campaign.
Friday July 23 Mind the Gap - between words and action
Luke 10
Reflection: extracts from a paper by Tim Costello, President of the Baptist Union of Australia, on 'Integral Mission with the Poor'
Friday July 16 Integral Mission - Practitioner's Perspective
Romans 12: 2-5
Reflection: extract from a paper by Saul and Pilar Cruz, Directors of Armonia (Urban Transformation Centres) in and around Mexico City.
Friday July 9 The Social Meaning of Reconciliation
2 Corinthians 5:17-21
Reflection: extract from a paper by Miroslav Volf, Professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, US.
Friday July 2 How do we 'walk with' those who are poor?
John 12:1-8
Reflection: extracts taken from a talk by Lilia Solano to the Micah Network conference in Mexico 2003.
Friday June 25
Soft difference - relations between Church and Culture
1 Peter
Reflection: an extract taken from 'Soft Difference: Theological Reflections on the Relation Between Church and Culture in 1 Peter' by Miroslav Volf.
Friday June 18 In Love with His Justice
Isaiah 61:8; 28:7,12; Genesis 18:19
Reflection: by Alfonso Wieland, taken from the booklet 'In Love with his Justice'.
Friday June 4 Faith to reach out
Matthew 8:1-4
Reflection: an article by Dean Hirsch, International President of World Vision (taken from Global Future Magazine [please see page 27])
Friday May 28 What is poverty after all?
Matthew 9:36 and Isaiah 1:16b-17a
Reflection: an article by Saul Cruz, Co-Director with his wife Pilar, of Armonia Ministries in Mexico
Friday May 21 We need a bigger picture of Justice
Matthew 20:1-16
Reflection: by Elaine Storkey (taken from the book 'Justice, Mercy and Humility' [Paternoster])
Friday May 14 Who Yahweh is, what Yahweh does and what Yahweh requires
Deuteronomy 10:14-19
Reflection: a sermon by Vinoth Ramachandra, secretary for dialogue and social engagement for the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students in South Asia
Friday April 30 The Tug of War
Micah 6:8
Reflection: by Stephen Rand, Campaign and Prayers Director of Tearfund UK
Friday April 22 Rest - putting limits on economic activity
Deuteronomy 5:12-15
Reflection: by Vinoth Ramachandra (taken from a presentation to the Micah Network conference in Queretaro, Mexico [please see pp 3&4, sections 3.3 - 3.6 under heading 'Responsible Stewardship'])
Friday April 16
A Danger to Health - our attitude to wealth
Luke 16:1-18
Reflection: by Steve Bradbury, Director of Tear Australia; Co-Chair, Micah Challenge (taken from a series on Luke called ‘Champion of the Outsiders’)
Friday April 2 Caring for the Vulnerable
A selection of passages in text
Reflection: by Dr Galen Carey and Dr Clive Calver (World Relief USA) (taken from 'Caring for the Vulnerable' a draft chapter for a forthcoming book on Christian public engagment)
Friday March 25 Good news for the Poor
Luke 2:1-41, Luke 4:16-20, Galatians 2:6-10
Reflections: by Rev Pervaiz Suntan (taken from a series of Bible Studies presented at the 25th URM (Urban Rural Mission) Committee Meeting in Pakistan)
Friday March 19 Following Jesus in a world of poverty
Ecclesiastes 4:1-16
Reflections: Tony Campolo's "A Dream for the Church" (taken from Study 4 on p18 in the "Following Jesus in a World of Poverty: Bible Studies and Reflections for Lent 2000 (sic)" pack and/or; The Chicago Declaration (the Appendix in the same pack).
Friday March 12
Love and Prayer - directing love towards justice & Beginnings - room for hope in tackling poverty
1 John 3:11-17
Reflections: by David Hunter; by Rev Dr Thorwald Lorenzen (taken from a sermon given on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty in 2003)
Friday March 5 They leave nothing for morning
Zephaniah 3:1-5; 2:1 & 3
Reflections: by Ruth Padilla De Borst (taken from her talk 'Word and World : Injustice and Poverty' to the IFES (International Fellowship of Evangelical Students) World Assembly in June 2003)
Friday Feb 27 The Lost Sons - morality without love
Luke 15:11-32
Reflection: by Steve Bradbury, Director of Tear Australia; Co-Chair, Micah Challenge (taken from a series on Luke called ‘Champion of the Outsiders’)
Friday Feb 13 The Marginalized - the woman who annoints Jesus
Luke 7:36-50
Reflections: by Elaine Storkey (taken from the book 'Justice, Mercy and Humility' pp 37-41)
Friday Feb 6 The Marginalized - Zacchaeus
Luke 19:1-10
Reflection : by Elaine Storkey (taken from the book 'Justice, Mercy and Humility' pp 33-37)