Beyond Welfare – Measuring and Monitoring the State of Children
When we do collect data and information on the state of our children the question should be asked: What do we measure and by what means? This paper calls for a new concept of children well being. It stresses the need to reshape the field of measuring the state of children by adapting it to new shifts and trends.
Book Review of Transformation as Mission
This article was written for the Journal ‘Transformation.’ Willmer questions some of the premises of the book asking questions about how we balance the ‘already/not yet’ dynamic of the future reality of the Kingdom of God with the present reality of our humaness and contemporay society.
Children’s Rights: Has Anyone Got It Right (Draft)
This paper sets out to give some historical background and contemporary developments to children’s rights and outlines three perspectives that inform these institutions.
Do We Need to Convert Them – a case study from Romania
This essay was written after interaction in January 2005 with Iana Mattei (director of Reaching Out Romania) concerning her approach and the legitimacy of “allowing spiritual space” to girls that have been rescued from forced prostitution in Romania. I provide an overview of Mattei’s work and approach and investigate conversion as gift or ‘exchange’. Theoretical material involves Rebecca Nye and David Hay.
Helping the Girl Child
Gender discrimination is manifested in many ways, such as conferring more affection on a son or, in extreme cases, abandonment, and female infanticide. As girls grow up, many of them will be subjected to early marriages leading to early pregnancies. This has negative effects on their physical, mental, and emotional well-being, as well as on the well-being of their infants.
January 26th OCMS Seminar paper
Paper submitted to Haddon Wilmer and presented at OCMS; methodology, case study selection, research process/stages, extracted categories.
Key Components of Child Development: A Christian Perspective
Tomkins lists as key components of child development the following: growth and nutrition, health and immunity, cognition and educational achievement, social and relational attitudes, self esteem, life skills, spirituality.
Missions in the twenty-first century
Doug Petersen reflects on a Pentecostal Missiology for the 21st Century. He draws on Pentecostal and evangelical scholarship as he argues for an integration of social concern and evangelism. This is an article originally published in the "Transformation" journal.
Sectoral Analysis of Children at Risk
Karen Hinder from the Viva Network compiled this sectoral analysis of Children at Risk in 2004, she also developed a quality improvement scheme. Karen passed away in 2006.
The Great Omission
Authors believe children and young people should be the single greatest priority for Christian work in the coming decade. But, are they?
The Spirituality of the Child
"Spirituality of the child" points to children’s spirituality and the spirituality of adults as they attend to children and their spirituality.
