Описание: In 1945, Elsie C. Bechtel left her Ohio home for the tiny French commune of Lavercanti re, where for nearly three years she cared for children displaced by the ravages of war. Bechtel's diary, photographs, and letters home to her family provide the central texts of this study. From 1945 to 1948, she recorded her encounters with French society and her immersion in the spare beauty of rural France. From her daily work came passionate musings on the emotional world of human interactions and evocative observations of the American, Spanish, and French co-workers and children with whom she lived. As a volunteer with the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Bechtel was part of the war relief efforts of pacifist Quakers and Anabaptists. In France between 1939 and 1948, MCC programs distributed clothing, shared food, and sheltered refugee children. The work began in the far southwest of France but, by the time Bechtel completed her service in 1948, had moved to the Alsace region, where French Mennonites clustered. Bechtel's writings emerged from a religious context that included much travel, but little reflection on the significance of that travel. Yet, religiously motivated travel--an old tradition in southwest France--shaped Bechtel's life. The authors consider her experiences in terms of religious pilgrimage and reflect on their own pilgrimage to Lavercanti re in 2006 for a reunion with some of the people marked by the broader effort that Bechtel joined. To understand Bechtel's experiences and prose, the authors examined archival sources on MCC's work in France, gathered oral and written narratives of participants, and researched other war relief efforts in Spain and France in the 1930s and 1940s. Drawing on these various contexts, the authors establish the complexity, but also the significance, of pilgrimage and humanitarian service as intercultural exchanges.
Автор: Wooden Heisey Irina Название: H Is for Hunt ISBN: 1681972794 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681972794 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1786.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Hunt, a very scruffy eight-year-old shelter dog, with mange and hair falling out, is ignored at the animal shelter.
Katie is a compassionate girl. It is her birthday, and her dad is taking her to the shelter to get a dog of her own.
The only thing that her mother said before they left home was "to bring home a gorgeous dog, a beautiful one, to sit with them in the morning sun "
What would she say if Katie and her dad came home with Hunt?
Описание: Discover how to expand your ministry by teaming up with so-called rival organizations rather than vying for donations. With a countercultural message, a Christlike model, and real-world examples, Greer and Horst reveal the key to revitalizing your ministry, sharing how you can multiply its impact by collaborating rather than competing with others. Page count will be 238
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