{"id":633,"date":"2011-03-09T14:10:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T20:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/acugst\/?p=633"},"modified":"2011-03-09T14:10:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T20:10:31","slug":"bmis-680-urban-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/acugst\/bmis-680-urban-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"BMIS 680 Urban Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-635\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/acugst\/2011\/03\/09\/bmis-680-urban-missions\/nyc-banner-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-635\" title=\"NYC Banner\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/acugst\/files\/2011\/03\/NYC-Banner1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">A one-week intensive course in New York City<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>May 28- June 4, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Dr. Jared Looney &#8211; Bronx Fellowship, Adjunct Professor<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why?<\/strong> At the beginning of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century, more than half of the globe is now urban, and in North America 83% of the population is distributed in 475 major metropolitan areas.\u00a0 Urban worldviews and lifestyles touch virtually every corner of our society \u2013 whether central city, edge city, suburb, or exurb.\u00a0 Urban demographics are constantly shifting.\u00a0 Urban life touches the church as arts, business, education, politics, and nearly every aspect of societal discourse emerges from within cities.\u00a0 Urbanism \u2013 both as place and as worldview \u2013 matters to the whole church from the suburb to the central city.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How? <\/strong>In a one-week intensive, students will engage in theological and missiological reflection while embedded in a diverse urban context.\u00a0 The class will benefit from interactions with the city as well as with practitioners serving in the city.\u00a0 Ranging from youth culture to community development to church planting to congregational ministry, missional practice will be emphasized.\u00a0 Students will focus on theological principles, cultural context, and practical ministry.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><strong>Course Fee = $185<\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><em>The course fee includes lodging at Refuge House (Bronx, NY) for seven nights; most meals; and Metro Card for transportation about the city. <\/em><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><em> <\/em><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><em>Students are responsible for their own travel to\/from NYC. <\/em><\/h6>\n<p>\ufeffFor more information contact <strong>Dr. Stephen Johnson<\/strong>, Director of Contextual Education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A one-week intensive course in New York City May 28- June 4, 2011 Dr. Jared Looney &#8211; Bronx Fellowship, Adjunct Professor Why? 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