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This book examines the theological foundations of a collaborative approach to Christian ministry. The discovery that Christians are members 'one of another' creates energy and joy in ministry and empowers the Church in an age of mission. Outlining the present challenges for ministry, Stephen Pickard offers an historical perspective on ministry over the last century; develops a theory of collaborative ministry based on a dialogue between theology and science; and explores some implications of collaborative ministry for lay and ordained people of the Church. This book breaks new ground in its theory of collaborative ministry through a dialogue with the sciences of emergence. It also offers fresh insights on important texts in ministry; relationships between Christology, Pneumatology and ministry; a relational ontology of ministry; episcopacy, ecumenism, ordination vows; and wisdom for team ministry.

Cooperative ministry. --- Group ministry. --- Church management. --- Pastoral theology. --- Christian leadership. --- 253 --- Church leadership --- Lay leadership --- Church work --- Leadership --- Care of souls --- Cure of souls --- Ministry --- Pastoral office and work --- Theology, Pastoral --- Pastoral care --- Church administration --- Parish administration --- Parish management --- Management --- Theology, Practical --- Church closures --- Co-ministry --- Ministry, Group --- Multiple staff ministry --- Team ministry --- Cooperative ministry --- Ministry, Cooperative --- Church management --- Pastoral theology --- Zielzorg. Pastoraat --- Christian leadership --- Group ministry

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Theology --- Pastoral theology --- Pastoral theology. --- Theology. --- theology --- ministry --- society --- Christian theology --- Theology, Christian --- Christianity --- Religion --- Care of souls --- Cure of souls --- Ministry --- Pastoral office and work --- Theology, Pastoral --- Church work --- Pastoral care

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In a situation of growing interest in the religion of migrants, there are still few publications dealing with pentecostal and charismatic Christians from the global South and the churches they have been starting all over Europe. This ground-breaking study, based on extensive interviews conducted during a nine-year research period encompassing more than 100 churches, describes how pentecostal /charismatic migrant pastors live out their pastoral role, how they construct their missionary biographies, and how they conceptualize and practice evangelism. The result is a comprehensive portrait of an immigrant group which does not define itself as victimized and in need of assistance, but as expatriate agents with a clear calling and a vision to change the continent they now live inches.

Pentecostal churches. --- Church work. --- Eglises pentecôtistes --- Pastorale --- United Evangelical Mission (Wuppertal, Germany) --- Church work with adults --- Institutional church --- Ministry --- Theology, Practical --- Pentecostalism --- Vereinte Evangelische Mission. --- UEM

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A unique survey which tracks worldwide the best and brightest academic performers from three Pacific countries is used to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the microeconomic level, the determinants of these migration choices. Although the estimates indicate that the income gains from migration are very large, not everyone migrates and many return. Within this group of highly skilled individuals, the emigration decision is found to be most strongly associated with preference variables such as risk aversion, patience, and choice of subjects in secondary school, and not strongly linked to either liquidity constraints or the gain in income to be had from migrating. Likewise, the decision to return is strongly linked to family and lifestyle reasons, rather than to the income opportunities in different countries. Overall the data show a relatively limited role for income maximization in distinguishing migration propensities among the very highly skilled, and point to the need to pay more attention to other components of the utility maximization decision.

Academic performance --- Brain drain --- Careers --- Education --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Highly skilled individuals --- Human capital --- Literature --- Ministry of education --- Papers --- Population Policies --- Research --- Research funding --- School --- Schools --- Scientists --- Secondary Education --- Secondary education --- Skilled professionals --- Student --- Students --- Tertiary Education --- Training --- University

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The study addresses governance challenges in public service delivery in China. It builds on the citizen scorecard survey conducted in five Chinese cities in 2006 to gauge citizens' experience with public services, and demonstrates the usefulness of citizens' feedback for policy development and implementation. The survey found that citizens were generally pleased with urban public services, but worried about the associated fees. Compared with the official urban residents, the urban poor and rural migrants in cities reported sharper utilization constraints, lower readiness to complain or pay informal fees, and a much larger income share spent on public services. The reported citizens' perceptions sometimes diverged from the evidence and pointed to significant information asymmetries. Explaining the survey results, the study reveals problems of inadequacy, inequality and misaligned incentives in public resource allocation. The study presents several successful experiments reducing the dependence on user fees in basic education and primary healthcare. It recognizes that China has been undertaking comprehensive reforms to enhance equity and quality in public service delivery. Such reforms have included measures to strengthen the regulatory, monitoring, and enforcement systems and accountability relationships. In the context of the ongoing reforms, this study highlights the need to: a) hold the provincial governments accountable for public service delivery performance; b) develop effective mechanisms to align public resources and incentives at each level of government with the national priorities; and c) develop proper means to empower the citizens. In this context, the study affirms that the Chinese government is rightly placing reforms in the intergovernmental, administrative, and public finance systems at the top of its agenda.

Basic education --- Citizen --- Citizens --- Communities & Human Settlements --- E-Government --- Economic growth --- Governance --- Governance Indicators --- Health Monitoring and Evaluation --- Health Systems Development and Reform --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Housing and Human Habitats --- Human development --- Migrants --- Ministry of education --- Ministry of health --- National Governance --- National policy --- National priorities --- Policy development --- Policy research --- Policy research working paper --- Population Policies --- Progress --- Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures --- Public Sector Economics and Finance --- Public Sector Management and Reform --- Public service --- Public services --- Quality of services --- Resource allocation --- Service delivery --- User fees