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Sister Churches - American Congregations and Their Partners Abroad (Hardcover, New)
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Sister Churches - American Congregations and Their Partners Abroad (Hardcover, New)
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The growth of Christianity in the global South and the fall of
colonialism in the middle of the twentieth century caused a crisis
in Christian missions, as many southern Christians spoke out about
indignities they had suffered and many northern Christians
retreated from the global South. American Christians soon began
looking for a fresh start, a path forward that was neither
isolationist nor domineering. Out of this dream the ''sister
church'' model of mission was born. In this model, rather than
Western churches sending representatives into the ''mission
field,'' they set up congregation-to-congregation partnerships with
churches in the global South. In Sister Churches Janel Bakker draws
on extensive fieldwork and interviews with participants in these
partnerships to explore the sister church movement and in
particular its effects on American churches. Because Christianity
is numerically and in many ways spiritually stronger in the global
South than it is in the global North-while the imbalance in
material resources runs in the opposite direction-both northern and
southern Christians stand to gain. Challenging prevailing notions
of friction between northern and southern Christians, Bakker argues
that sister church relationships are marked by interconnectivity
and collaboration.
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