Summer 2014/Beirut, Lebanon

MI530

Accad

MI530: MISSIOLOGICAL INTEGRATION IN CONTEXT (4 Units: 120 hours). Martin Accad.

DESCRIPTION: This course will be focused on a practical learning experience. The students will experience the real context in which incarnational work is carried out in today’s Arab Middle East. Students will have an opportunity to learn firsthand from those who are involved in such cross-cultural work among various Arab peoples of Lebanon, as well as being directly involved themselves. Their involvement will be diversified depending on their pre-agreed preferences and personal profiles, in consultation with the facilitating professor. Some possibilities may be urban Sunni Beirutis, university students, inner-city Shiites, shanty towns, children at risk, rural Druze, Lebanese Armenians, or settled Bedouins in Beirut, the Bekaa Valley, and South Lebanon. There will be regular reflection sessions among members of the group and specific inputs by the facilitating professor and invited guests. Also, local workers and experts will be available for sharing, questions, and evaluation.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: (1) Acquire a firsthand understanding of present cross-cultural challenges and needs in the Arab world; (2) assess the significance of a wide variety of enterprises that have been studied and experienced; and (3) explore personal cross-cultural calling and potential longer-term involvement

COURSE FORMAT: This course will be spread over four weeks within the five-week Lebanon Practicum, integrated with language study (MR548). After the first week with the conference, students will spend the following four weeks in language study and ministry involvement, participating in a variety of cross-cultural work in and around Beirut. The daily schedule will vary according to the situation, but it will normally include relationship building, observation, and participation in cross-cultural activity. Once a week, students will get together with the facilitating professor for a debriefing and reflective session.

REQUIRED READING: If you have previously read any of the required texts, please select an alternative text from the recommended reading list or a book approved by the instructor. Please note that all books are also available at the ABTS library in Lebanon, where students will be staying.

Accad, Fouad. Building Bridges: Christianity and Islam. NavPress, 1997. ISBN: 978-0891097952, Pub. Price $14.99 [160 pp.]. ***OUT OF PRINT

OR (if not available due to being Out of Print) Jabbour, Nabeel. The Crescent through the Eyes of the Cross: Insights from an Arab Christian. Tyndale House Publishers, 2008. ISBN: 978-1600061950, Pub. Price $14.99 [272 pp.] eBook, ISBN: 978-1600065576, Pub. Price $14.99.

Chapman, Colin. Whose Promised Land?. Lion Publ., 1989.ISBN: 978-0801064418, Pub. Price $26.00 [330 pp.].

Kateregga, Badru D., and D. W. Shenk. A Muslim and a Christian in Dialogue. 2nd ed. Herald Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0836196191, Pub. Price $14.99 [219 pp.].

Mackey, Sandra. Lebanon: A House Divided. WW Norton, 2006. ISBN: 978-0393328431, Pub. Price $13.13 [295 pp.].

Muller, Roland. Honor and Shame: Unlocking the Door. XLibris, 2001. ISBN: 978-0738843162, Pub. Price $20.99 [122 pp.].

Choose One:

McConnell, Douglas, Jennifer Orona, and Paul Stockley, eds. Understanding God's Heart for Children: Toward a Biblical Framework. Authentic, 2007. ISPN: 978-1934068472, Pub. Price. $38.00 [338 pp.].

Myers, Bryant L. Walking with the Poor: Principles and Practices of Transformational Development. Orbis Books, 2011. ISBN: 978-1570759390, Pub. Price $20.79 [300 pp.].

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:

1. Read at least 1250 pages drawn from books (not previously read) in the required reading list, and supplemented by the recommended reading list or additional titles approved by professor (20%).

2. Keep an ongoing journal with regular entries throughout the practicum (at least 3-4 entries per week), integrating your experiences and readings. A more comprehensive weekly reflection (4 total) will be submitted to the professor for grading (40%).

3. A final paper of 3,000 words, integrating personal experiences, assessing missiologically the project that the student has been involved with, and framing it within missiological and/or dialogical theory; or some other special project of special interest in coordination with the course instructor (40%).

PREREQUISITES: 36 units of graduate-level missiology.

RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: When taken along with MR548, fulfills practicum requirement in MA CCS program.

FINAL EXAMINATION: None.