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Brooks-Howell Home

Type: VHS
Author: GBGM - Women's Division

Introduces the viewer to Brooks-Howell Home, a community of retired missionaries and deaconesses of the United Methodist Church located in Asheville, NC.

Love, Justice and Service - The Ministry of Deaconesses

Type: VHS
Author: GBGM

This video explains the history, the current status, and the projections for the future of the deaconess movement.

Mission Magazine 1998 Edition No. 2

Type: VHS
Author:

Reports on an agricultural missionary who works with small farmers in Kenya, an effort to help the homeless in Kansas City - with 6,000 volunteers, sustainable agriculture in Iowa, and excerpt from a new video, 'Love, Justice and Service: The Ministry of Deaconesses.'

Mission Magazine 1999, Edition No. 2

Type: VHS
Author:

This edition includes part of the Women's Division Mission study program for 1999-2000: The Bible Part II traces a variety of ways Christians have interpreted the Bible historically; Mission in the 21st Century shows refugees returning to their native lands as missionaries, youth as US 2's and lay missioners, a medical doctor in Nepal and a deaconess/home missionary; Humanity Comes of Age explores the challenges of an aging population to the world and the church as older people discover new...

My Calling to Fulfill: Deaconesses in the United Methodist Tradition

Type: BOOK
Author: Dougherty, Mary Agnes

Book on the history of the deaconess movement within the broader United Methodist tradition.