Being involved in the Disaster Response in the Philippines right now, thankful for good articles on how to bridge the gap between relief and long-term development.
Month: November 2013
Disaster Response Volunteer Guidelines
<div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/bmunson3/disaster-response-volunteer-guide" title="Disaster Response Volunteer Guide" target="_blank">Disaster Response Volunteer Guide</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/bmunson3" target="_blank">Bob Munson</a></strong> </div> Focus on Disaster Response Relilgious Care Volunteers in the Philippines. First version... changes likely. Related articles How can disaster response contribute to long-term development? (cdalisteningproject.wordpress.com) Relief Team Guidance: Ventilation or Retraumatization?? (munsonmissions.org)
Relief Team Guidance: Ventilation or Retraumatization??
I did this short post on our counseling center webpage. We are doing disaster response crisis counseling related to Typhoon recovery in the Philippines. We generally use the NOVA method (National Organization of Victim Assistance). We are pretty comfortable with it. Some prefer to use CISD, but we believe that CISD is more appropriate for …
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Why Do Good? Or Why Not?
We (me and my family... I am not talking about myself in first person plural) do a number of different ministries here in the Philippines. This includes church ministries of different sort, some church planting, and seminary teaching. But our biggest work has been more what is often called social ministry. This includes medical missions …
Cults: Good, Bad, and Ugly
The term "Cult" gets used and abused quite a bit. Actually Wikipedia has a nice article on the term "Cult" and its many different usages. Starting from the perspective of orthodox/historical Christianity, I would like to look at the word in terms of "Good", "Bad", and "Ugly" and then take a more "functionalist" look at …
Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) Disaster Response
I am taking a bit of a break from blogging for now. We live in the Philippines and have been walloped by disaster. Strangely, the Philippines has been doing fairly well of late with good economics and the perception (at least) of less corruption. But then came three big disasters: Kidnapping and village burnings in …
Ambivalent Reflections on Miracles in Missions
Previously, I had done a post on "Ambivalent Reflections on Spiritual Warfare." Although I am ambivalent on Spiritual Warfare, I tend to view it negatively as it relates to missions (because of its generally negative tone, and the tendency to be built on a syncretized animism). However, I have a more positive view of the …
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Materials for EV-362 Students
Here are some resources for my EV-362 (Principles of Church Growth and Church Planting) students. I normally, put presentation materials in my Slideshare Account or on Scribd.com. However, some of this material was written by others so I did not want to put them there giving the idea that they were created by me. Syllabus …