Why we pay outsiders to counsel our congregation members: investigating the motivation for funding a congregational assistance plan

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rick Csiernik ◽  
David Knezevic ◽  
Marg Smit-Vandezande ◽  
Mark Vander Vennen
Keyword(s):  
Congregation Members

scholarly journals Making Structural Change with Relational Power: A Gender Analysis of Faith-Based Community Organizing

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-32
Author(s):  
Sarah B. Garlington ◽  
Margaret R. Durham Bossaller ◽  
Jennifer A. Shadik ◽  
Kerri A. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Community Change ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Relational Power ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
The Us ◽  
Congregation Members ◽  
Change Efforts

This article presents research on faith-based community organizing in the US to examine how congregation members engage in structural change efforts related to marginalized populations. Examining the case of one organizing model, justice ministry, congregations focus on power defined through relationships, cultivated in informal spaces, and communicated through personal narrative (traditionally private, feminine spheres), and change is enacted by creating tension in public (traditionally masculine) spaces with decision-makers. A growing body of literature presents nuanced gender analyses of policy advocacy, social movements, and community change efforts both in terms of strategic models of action and revisiting our understanding of historical movements. We ask questions about how the expectations and work are constrained or facilitated by cultural expectations of gender roles and power dynamics. Examining the organizing model of justice ministry through a gender lens helps to understand how an emphasis on relational power (traditionally gendered as feminine) facilitates and strengthens the use of a range of tools, including publicly challenging authority (more frequently gendered as masculine). While the private/public, feminine/masculine dichotomy has severe limitations and risks oversimplification, the utility remains in helping name and challenge real power differentials based on gender.

scholarly journals Pengajian Remaja Dan Kontribusinya Dalam Pembentukan Akhlak Generasi Muda Di Bulak Setro Surabaya

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-132
Author(s):  
Achmad Nawawi
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Research Technique ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Congregation Members ◽  
Islamic Society

Spiritual spirits is a non-formal education activities conducted in a place of worship in an Islamic society as a place to deepen and examine the knowledge of religion, whether morals, worship, or muamalah. While the material is taught in spiritually spirited teen Bulak Setro is more to morality material that aims to shape morals on the younger generation. While teenagers spiritual spirits efforts conducted by teenagers Bulak Setro in forming the morality of the young generation that is by providing education, pedagogy, habituation, and exemplary to the congregation (members) sprinkling the spiritual. This research uses qualitative approach, with observation research technique, documentation, and interview. As for data analysis in this study using qualitative analysis. The credible test uses triangulation or checking data from multiple sources in various ways and times. The study of adolescents has a huge contribution in the formation of morality of the younger generation in the future, the region prepares its generation with positive things so it becomes a habit for teenagers to attend a recitation, as an exercise to cultivate a sense of responsibility by becoming a tutor, without losing their adolescence, because people still give them the freedom to play and hang out like any other teenager.

Patterns of Attribution of Control and Individual Psychosocial Competence

1982 ◽  
Vol 51 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1243-1252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth I. Pargament ◽  
Mark S. Sullivan ◽  
Forrest B. Tyler ◽  
Robert E. Steele
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Causal Attribution ◽  
Psychosocial Competence ◽  
Congregation Members ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Idiographic Methods

This study examined the relationships among a variety of loci of control and individual psychosocial competence measures through nomothetic and idiographic methods. 133 congregation members drawn from 12 suburban congregations participated in the study. Correlational analyses pointed to considerable independence among the loci of control. However, through a cluster analysis, groups of members manifesting different patterns of attribution of control were identified. The patterns themselves were conceptually meaningful. Furthermore, members of the clusters held significantly different characteristics of psychosocial competence. Yet, as elements of the cluster, neither internal nor external loci themselves had consistently positive or negative implications for members' competence. Rather the significance of the loci appeared to lie in their configuration with each other. Thus, this study highlights the relevance of examining individual frameworks of causal attribution whose elements operate interactively as well as independently.

scholarly journals UNDERSTANDING LEVEL OF TABLIGH JAMAAT MEMBERS AT AN-NAHL Verse 125 (Case Study at Mosque of al-Falah II Jl. Sumatra Pekanbaru)

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Jani Arni
Keyword(s):  
Poor Understanding ◽  
Congregation Members ◽  
Level Of Understanding

This study studied the level of understanding of the Tabligh congregation members about the letter of al-Nahl verse 125 which contains about methods in preaching. Tabligh Jamaat is one group of Muslims who could be called active in proselytizing. They were proselytizing door to door or directly into the homes of Muslims to invite to goodness. Da’wah in the congregation sermons made by all members, because they think that the task of the mission is not only clerical duties. Al-Qur’an as a book of guidance has explained how the procedures or methods in carrying out da’wah. In Surat al-Nahl verse 125 explained that there are three methods of da’wah; bil hikmah, al-mau’izhah al-hasanah, and jadilhum billati hiya ahsan.From research conducted found that the level of understanding and practice of members of Tabligh congregation was very varied; some have a good understanding and practice, there are less in understanding the verses about methods of da’wah but its practices is good, as well as small part that have a poor understanding and its practice

scholarly journals Hybrid Identity. Exploring a Dutch Protestant community of faith

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-61
Author(s):  
R Brouwer
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Thick Description ◽  
Research Perspective ◽  
Community Of Faith ◽  
Qualitative Empirical Research ◽  
Congregation Members ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
The Church

Communities of faith develop their identity in dialogue with changing social and cultural contexts. This article presents a single case of identity formation in a local congregation of the Protestants Church in the Netherlands, in a changing environment. Out of one specific congregational practice, namely the liturgical (non)-affirmation of same-sex marriages, the complexity of identity construction in a plural and diverse congregation is shown. From a qualitative empirical research perspective, the details of a congregational practice are unfolded in an ethnographic, thick description of the identity. All the different aspects and voices with regard to the congregational practice together give shape to an identity gestalt. The outcome of this detailed research into one practice of a community of faith is that identity is under construction. Unambiguous and uniform congregational identities are rare. In this particular case the identity is even diffuse. The church council and the congregation members find it difficult to state their identity in a positive way and to find agreement on that. The ‘hybridisation’ of identity is presented as a concept that can shed some light on the nature of identity formation. In a global world, integrated contexts and integrated cultures and identities no longer exist. Contextualisation is a never-ending process. Hybrid identities are construed out of different fragments. Identity construction results from a process of negotiation. This asks for transparant communication and a constructive dealing with differences. As a community of difference, the church as koinonia receives its identity in dialogue with all who are involved. The outcome of this dialogue should be beneficial to not only the congregation but also to its social and cultural environment.

Clergy's Knowledge of Self-Help Groups in a Large Metropolitan Area

1988 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Jason ◽  
Daniel Goodman ◽  
Nathaniel Thomas ◽  
Georgeann Iacono ◽  
Daniel Tabon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
Congregation Members ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Consultation Session ◽  
Self Help Group

Religious leaders were surveyed concerning their attitudes toward self help groups. Of the 154 respondents, 70% had made at least one referral to a self-help group, and the religious leaders had generally positive feelings toward these groups. Although the religious leaders fell that self-help groups would be helpful with many of the problems brought to them by their congregation members, for only 59% of those problems did they know of specific self-help groups to which referrals could be made. A consultation session was provided for a sample of the religious leaders who had never made a referral to a self-help group. Following consultation, an increase in activities involving self-help groups was observed. This study suggests that mental health professionals can play a unique role in providing community gatekeepers, such as the clergy, with information and resources about self-help groups in their communities.

City Outreach

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Barron ◽  
Rhys H. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Church Leadership ◽  
Public High School ◽  
Church Members ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Status ◽  
Congregation Members ◽  
Before School ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

Although Downtown Church is still a fairly new congregation, it has developed two significant outreach ministries. The church sponsors a team in a community basketball league— made up of congregation members and some external “ringers” who are terrific players but not regular church members. And it sponsors a “before-school” support program at a public high school in a low-income, crime-ridden neighborhood in the city. Both of these programs are similar to efforts made by many congregations, but they also reveal how the church leadership struggles to handle issues of race and inequality beyond its own walls. Here, “racial utility” becomes apparent, as the pastoral leadership often uses black members to help it establish credibility, either with others in the city basketball league or with the public school system. At the same time, many of the church members involved with the programs recognize that even as they are being used for their race, they are in turn using the status of the white leadership to gain entrance into situations they might not have been able to achieve on their own.

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