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An “Awareness on Biblical Basis
for Social Concern & Training for Training Providers” was organised at
the Social Development and Training center, Ranchi, Jharkhand from
November 13, 2007 to November 16,2007 with the objective of raising
awareness among pastors and evangelists of Jharkand about the Biblical
basis for our involvement in social concern ministries and also to train
them in conducting awareness programs on social concern.
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Some of the topics covered were Characteristics of God, Mission of man,
Who the poor are?, Gods concern for the poor and marginalized, Prayer
and Poor, Old Testament and the poor, Gospel and poor, How much can we
give to the poor?, Our mission, What Church or we as individual can do
for the poor?, Kingdom of God
- Topics covered under training to conduct Awareness program were Adult
learning technique, Dialog advantages, Qualities of the trainer, Check
list for the traininer,Accounting requirement, Reporting procedures
Three resource people Mr. L. Green Thomas, Program Co-ordinator, EFICOR
,Pastor. Akash Nandi (ACTS ) and Pastor Madhur Sangit (ACTS) took the
participants through various sessions and 25 people attended the
Awareness
An example of people transforming during the awareness training is cited
below:
Learning to share
43 year old Mrs. Emlen Runda is a retired teacher with two
children from Ranchi, Jharkhand. Her husband is employed
with a bank. Having attended two days training on Awareness
on Biblical Basis for Social Concern & Training for Training
Providers” she shared all the learnings with her family
members. As a result, they wanted to distribute their almost
new clothes to the poor people. ACT, an NGO runs its women’s
empowerment groups in the rural parts of Jharkhand. Through
these groups the clothes are distributed among the poor of
Lapung block of Ranchi.
As a family, they have also decided to support an adult
literacy centre to enable older people receive free basic
education from next year. |
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