From Sending Church to Partner Church: The Brazil Experience
Presbyterians do mission in partnership with national churches around the world. Many of these churches got their start when Presbyterian missionaries from the United States formed mission organizations in their countries. As national churches emerged and became autonomous, everyone's understan...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2003
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The journal of Presbyterian history
Year: 2003, Volume: 81, Issue: 3, Pages: 178-192 |
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| Summary: | Presbyterians do mission in partnership with national churches around the world. Many of these churches got their start when Presbyterian missionaries from the United States formed mission organizations in their countries. As national churches emerged and became autonomous, everyone's understanding was that the foreign missions would go out of business. The dissolution of the Missions, however, proved to be a long and painful process and nowhere has this process been better mirrored than in Brazil, whose mission organization became the last in the world (for U.S. Presbyterians) to go. |
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