Summer 2013/Fuller Live!

Menlo Park, Pasadena, and Houston

GM574

Martínez

GM574: IGLESIA EVANGÉLICA LATINA—RETOS PARA EL FUTURO. Juan Martínez.

[The Latino Protestant Church—Challenges for the Future].

DESCRIPTION: An analysis of the current challenges facing Latino Protestant churches in the United States and a framework for looking at the issues that they will need to address in the future. The course provides a description of the principal challenges, some of the ways that churches have responded in the past, the assets Latinos have to address the challenges, and an outline for framing the Latino church’s mission in the future.

SIGNIFICANCE FOR LIFE AND MINISTRY: Leaders within Latino Protestant churches need to analyze the issues they specifically confront and a framework for addressing these issues from a missiological perspective.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: As objectives for the course, students will (1) understand the principal challenges faced by Latino Protestant churches in the United States today; (2) analyze the principal church models that are being used to minister in the Latino/a community; (3) evaluate their own perspectives related to Latino Protestant churches in the United States; and (4) develop plans for new models of church and ministry within the Latino community.

COURSE FORMAT: This course will meet daily for three-hour sessions for two weeks. It will consist of lectures, discussions, and participatory activities.

REQUIRED READING:

González, Juan. Harvest of Empire. Viking, 2000. ISBN: 978-0143119289, Pub. Price $18.00 [293 pp. assigned].

González, Justo. Teología liberadora. Kairós, 2006. ISBN: 978-9879403914, Pub. Price $17.00 [278 pp. assigned].

Martínez, Juan. Caminando entre el pueblo: Ministerio latino en los Estados Unidos. Abingdon, 2008. ISBN: 978-0687492763, Pub. Price $18.00 [119 pp. assigned].

________. Los Protestantes: An Introduction to Latino Protestantism in the United States. ABC-CLIO, 2011. ISBN: 9780313393136 . Pub. Price $44.95 [177 pp. assigned].

Martínez, Juan & Branson, Mark. Iglesias, culturas y liderazgo: Una teología práctica para congregaciones y etnias. Editorial Vida, 2013. ISBN: 978-0829760958, Pub. Price $12.99 [267 pp. assigned].

RECOMMENDED READING:

Carroll, Daniel. Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible. Baker, 2008. ISBN: 978-0801035661, Pub. Price $16.99.

Maldonado, Jorge, and Juan Martínez, eds. Vivir y servir en el exilio Lecturas teológicas de la experiencia latina en los Estados Unidos. Kairós, 2008. ISBN: 978-9871355150, Pub. Price $17.00.

Martínez, Juan. Sea la Luz: The Making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829-1900. University of North Texas Press, 2006. ISBN: 978-1574412222, Pub. Price $24.95.

Rodríguez, Daniel. A Future for the Latino Church: Models for Multilingual, Multigenerational Hispanic Congregations. InterVarsity Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0830839308, Pub. Price $19.00.

Stavans, Ivan. La condición hispánica. Tierra Firme, 1999. ISBN: 978-0060937393, Pub. Price $29.69.

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:

1. Online participation, including weekly readings, reflections and assignments (40%).

2. Read 250 pages from the class bibliography and turn in a reading report (10%).

3. Interview a Latino church leader from a different tradition following instructions given on moodle (10%).

4. Develop a “ministry map” of the area where the student is serving (10%).

5. Analyze one of the challenges the Latino community is facing and develop a plan for how the Latino church can respond (8-10 pages) (30%).

PREREQUISITES: Spanish.

RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Meets Latino Leadership emphasis.

FINAL EXAMINATION: None.