This document discusses various paradigms and models of missions that have emerged over time. It covers missions focused on development, medical care, HIV/AIDS patients, prisoners, media, charity, and conflict resolution. It notes that medical missions have shifted from a traditional religious approach to establishing community health care systems. Development missions have also evolved, incorporating concepts from ecological economics and sustainable development. Missions among virtual communities focus on creating online spaces for interaction and community. The document also discusses how the Ramakrishna mission in India was a reformist response to Christian models of "caring" missions.

1. Changing Patterns and Models of
Missions
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Joshva Raja

2. Initiatives
• Mission as Development
• Mission with HIV Patients
• Mission with prisoners
• Medical Mission
• Media and Mission
• Charity as Mission
• Conflict Resolution as Mission
• Ecological concerns as Mission

3. Paradigm shifts?!
• No history of other missions?
• History of Other missions

4. Medical Mission
• Wilkinson, John (1989 Maxwell Memorial Lecture) Making Men Whole -
The Theology of Medical Missions, CMF and the book by Christopher H
Grundmann - University Press of America 2005 Sent to Heal! - Emergence
and Development of Medical Missions
• Holistic approach of mission – Physical healing
through medical treatment?
• God’s concern for the sick and weak
• Jesus’ healing and caring for the sick
• Mission purely spiritual? Caring for physical
wellbeing as well! – James 5

5. Paradigm shifts in Medical Mission
• Nestorian Christianity - 'the knowledge and practice
of medicine and healing was a notable feature’
• Constantine’s conversion – 4th Century – hospitals,
orphanages and other missions began
• Until enlightenment the medical practice was
traditional, religious, and superstitious
• Medical missionaries were sent out in 18th
Centuries – from Hospitals to Community health care
systems

6. Development as Mission
• Progress
• Traditional societies
• Linear models
• Modernization – diffusion
• Dependency
• Participation
• Community based development

7. Development
• Ecological economics
• Sustainable development
• Welfare economics
• Feminist economics
• http://etd.rau.ac.za/theses/available/etd-10062004-
104219/restricted/Chapter6.pdf
• http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laure
ates/1998/sen-lecture.pdf

8. Mission among HIV/AIDS
• http://data.unaids.org/Publications/IRC-
pub06/JC1119-Theological_en.pdf
• http://www.unaids.org/DocOrder/OrderForm.a
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• Awareness
• Prevention
• Treatment
• Caring
• Advocacy

9. Mission among the virtual
communities
• (1) a virtual common-public-space where a
significant portion of interactive group-CMCs
• occur;
• (2) a variety of communicators;
• (3) a minimum level of sustained stable
membership; and
• (4) a minimum level of interactivity.

10. Ramakrishna mission was a reformist
reaction to the Christian “caring”
• CalcuttaRamakrishna M. Institute of CultureAdvaitaAdvaita
Ashram CalcuttaSRMSri Ramakrishna Math
CalcuttaNarendrapurRamakrishna Mission College
UdbodhanMother's HouseVidyapithRamakrishna
VidyapithNew DelhiRamakrishna
MissionRajkot/GujaratRamakrishna Mission
AshramChennaiRamakrishna Math Mylapore
ChennaiRamakrishna Mission AshramItanagarRamakrishna
Mission Hospital APVidyapithRamakrishna Vidyapith
ChennaiChengalpattuRamakrishna Mission Tamil
NaduMaduraiRamakrishna Math CoimbatoreRamakrishna
Mission Vidyalaya