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Parent Time Spent with Child: A Mediating Link between Family Life Events and Latino Citizen Children’s Externalizing Problems
No full textIn the past decade, due to U.S. immigration policies, thousands of unauthorized immigrant parents, including parents of citizen-children, were detained and deported. Researchers have indicated that the mental health of Latino citizen-children is negatively impacted by the vulnerable legal status of their parents. Clear links were found between life events and children mental health outcomes, as well as links between the quality of parent-child relationship and child mental health outcomes. The current study was designed to examine whether parent-child indicators (i.e., parent-child perceived closeness and parent report of time spent with child) mediated the association between family life events and citizen-children externalizing problems as rated by teachers. Participants consisted of 37 citizen-children of unauthorized parents, and 21 citizen-children of detained and or deported parents. Child participants were between the ages of 6 and 12. The results were that parent report of time spent with their child did not mediate the relationship between family life events and children’s mental health outcomes. Closeness ratings did not vary sufficiently to be analyzed as a mediator. There were statistically significant differences by parental immigration statuses on five family life events. The author concludes that detained and deported parents experience significantly more life events when compared to unauthorized parents. A discussion regarding mental health implications and considerations for future research is presented
Long Term Effects of Ministry: Relationships, Burnout, and Ministry Performance
No full textWhereas relationships are important and valuable for individuals, there are limits to the number of genuine, intimate relationships one can develop and maintain. Dunbar worked to create an evolutionary theory, Dunbar’s social network theory (Dunbar, 2003), and implied that relational capacity is limited by brain size due to cognitive, temporal, and emotional burdens. However, some vocations have required the use of extensive relational capacity and may cause distress. A research group collected data from active relational ministry workers about their relational capacity (Coppinger Pickett, 2015). Self-report measures included a social network measure in which the participants listed all their relationships and categorized them based on frequency of contact and emotional closeness. The participants also answered measures of burnout, compassion satisfaction, and life, job, and relationship satisfaction. Several network ring sizes predicted burnout, and some social network rings showed evidence of optimal size ranges that contributed to well-being. The current researcher investigated the long-term effects of this burnout and surveyed seventy-three of the original participants, repeating the self-report measures eighteen months later. Multiple linear regressions were run to investigate potential change in burnout, compassion satisfaction, and life, job, and relationships satisfaction. Overall, participants in the follow up survey reported relatively stable levels of burnout
Unearthing Impediments to Mission Among the Eglise Pentecôtistes Unies Internationale De Côte D’ivoire
No full textThis qualitative research focuses on identifying historical, socio-cultural, and theological influences that have shaped current praxis among leaders and emerging leaders in the EPUI CI’s understanding of mission. This research reveals that Ivorians continue to struggle with a plethora of existential realities—namely, marred identity, repression, poverty, lack of educational opportunities, ethnic tensions, lack of governmental stability, and the ongoing influence and meddling of its colonial-era master, France. My research findings indicate that a lack of spiritual formation has also contributed to the relatively slow growth of the EPUI CI and personal and leadership emergence. The question begging to be answered is, can a withered church present a holistic gospel? The findings of this dissertation are the sum of dialogue (interviews, focus groups, and written reflections) set in an ecclesiastical community, and they form the basis for the final recommendations. Spiritual formation as a catalyst for mission is essential if the EPUI CI is to realize its full potential as an agent of redemption and reconciliation.
Roberta King, Ph
COLLECTION 0015: Floyd J. Perkins Collection, 1886-2002
Get PDFThe Floyd Perkins Collection documents the life and ministry of Nazarene missionary Floyd Perkins and his family in Mozambique, Brazil and Colorado Springs. The collection includes personal records, correspondence, certificates and photographs as well as copies of Floyd Perkins’s theses and dissertations. Also included are the research notes and other information collected on the development of Christian missions in Swaziland for his dissertation entitled, “A History of Christian Missions in Swaziland to 1910.” These research notes and the accompanying dissertation are an internationally significant documentary collection containing both published and unpublished materials. The collection also includes published and unpublished material documenting the ministry of Phyllis Perkins
COLLECTION 0016: Papers of Paul S. Dayhoff, 1925-2009
Get PDFThe Paul Dayhoff (1925- ) Collection documents Church of the Nazarene missions in southern Africa. It contains data on 475 persons, mostly African nationals, who have been crucial to the development of the church in Africa. A version of this information was published in the internet Dictionary of African Biography (www.dacb.org). Other information was also published in Living Stones in Africa (3 volumes, 1996-2006) and in Africa Nazarene Mosaic: Inspiring Accounts of Living Faith (2001)
COLLECTION 0157: Lewis B. Smedes Collection
Get PDFDr. Lewis Benedictus Smedes (August 20, 1921 - December 19, 2002) taught Christian Ethics and Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. Dr. Smedes played a key role in the Seminary\u27s integration of its psychology and theology academic disciplines.
The Papers include Smedes\u27 personal notes on theological, spiritual and psychological topics, reviews of his publications, and correspondence. There are several boxes of topical files for course, sermon and publication preparation. Bulk dates range withing Dr. Smedes’ later years at Fuller Theological Seminary
COLLECTION 0162: Evangelical Booklets, Pamphlets, Tracts and Other Material
Get PDFA collection of Evangelical Christian ephemeral material used in churches and parachurch organizations to spread the Gospel message. Most of the material is from the mid-20th century. Some materials date from the late 1800s
COLLECTION 0175: Southern California Renewal Communities
Get PDFThe Southern California Renewal Communities (SCRC) organization is an official ministry of the Los Angeles Archdiocese in California to foster and support charistmatic renewal within the Catholic community. SCRC began as a charismatic prayer group at Loyola University in 1970. John Hampsch (b. 1925 - ) has been an annual speaker for over 45 years at the Southern California Renewal Convention.
The Southern California Renewal Communities collection includes conference brochures, schedules and flyers as well as over 100 pamphlets published by Father John Hampsch. Materials are in two boxes. Dates range from 1972 – circa 2012
Developing a Spiritual Growth Pathway for Adults at St. Matthias Episcopal Church
Get PDFThe goal of this project is to lay foundations at St. Matthias Episcopal Church for a new adult educational ministry that designs a contextualized pathway for spiritual growth, train lay leaders, and initiate small groups. The purpose is to deepen community and cultivate spiritual maturity among the church’s members. Particular attention is given to the social-emotional dimensions of Christian maturity, with reflection on both the classical call to “love God and neighbor” and the current contributions of developmental psychology toward an understanding of human and Christian maturity.
St. Matthias Episcopal Church is an historic church in Whittier, California, seeking renewal after years of declining attendance and morale. The church’s seasons of growth and decline correlate largely with those of the urban Uptown Whittier location in which it is set. This paper traces those seasons of growth and decline, reflecting on the current challenges for renewal faced by the church and its new rector, Father William Garrison.
A pilot small group worked with Father Garrison to achieve these foundational aims over a period of twelve to eighteen months. Part one of this paper considers the communities of Whittier and St. Matthias, naming some of the hopeful signs of renewal evident in recent years. Part two asserts that the social-emotional dimension is an often underdeveloped aspect of Christian discipleship. It also reflects on what a vision and pathway for cultivating Christian maturity would look like in the theologically diverse context of St. Matthias.
Part three shares the results from the pilot small group. The church’s encouraging progress is summarized toward: designing a growth pathway, shifting congregational culture, deepening bonds of community, launching new groups, and training new lay leaders. Remaining challenges and future work to be done in the years ahead are also briefly considered