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This document discusses compassionate justice and service learning. It provides examples of relief, development, and advocacy/justice approaches to addressing issues like hunger. The document outlines a 4-step service learning process: preparation, action, reflection, and celebration. It emphasizes the importance of deep listening, assessing gifts and passions, and creating partnerships with local leaders. The document also discusses accompaniment and provides suggested resources for service learning.
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- 1. Compassionate Justice andService Learning
- 2. Peggy Hahn Associate inMinistry Assistant to the Bishop Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod, ELCA Rev. David Ellingson Professor of Children, Youth & Family Studies Director, Children, Youth & Family Center Trinity Lutheran College Mark Jackson Professor & Chair of Children, Youth & Family Studies Director, Center for Community Engagement Trinity Lutheran College
- 3. Compassionate Justice Rev. David Ellingson Professor of Children, Youth & Family Studies Director, Children, Youth & Family Center Trinity Lutheran College
- 4. Why? 1. Human need hunger, homelessness , illiteracy, effects of violence , etc.
- 5. Why? 2. Divine mandate Luke 4: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me …” 1 John 4:19: “We love because God first loved us …”
- 6. Relief Development Advocacy/Justice
- 7. Relief Development Advocacy/Justice
- 8. Relief Development Advocacy/Justice
- 9. Example: Hunger Relief: - Feedingprogram - Matthew 14:15-21 (Feeding of the 5000) - Proverb: Give a person a fish.
- 10. Example: Hunger Development: - Developinga fish farm - John 21:6 (Throw net on other side of boat) - Proverb: Teach to fish.
- 11. Example: Hunger Advocacy/Justice: - Localfish food co-op - Luke 4 (The Spirit of the Lord …) - Proverb: Share in owner- ship of the fishing business.
- 12. Example: “An even better Samaritan” Relief: - Bandage wounds - Transport to a safe place - Provide for care at the inn
- 13. Example: “An even betterSamaritan” Development: - Build aid stations - Train paramedic teams - Plan for a hospital
- 14. Example: “An even betterSamaritan” Advocacy/Justice: - Create the Jericho Road Improvement Association to address issues of road conditions, safety, poverty, hunger, violence and develop public policies and funding to make systemic changes
- 15. Example: New Orleans Relief: -Read to a child - Donate to Habitat - Feed a family
- 16. Example: New Orleans Development: -Teach child to read - Help family create a garden - Join family in building Habitat home
- 17. Example: New Orleans Advocacy/Justice: -Fix and fund good education - Grow neighborhood garden - Provide low interest home loans
- 18. Service Learning Process Mark Jackson Professor & Chair of Children, Youth & Family Studies Director, Center for Community Engagement Trinity Lutheran College
- 19. Volunteers gather inthe Ninth Ward during the 2009 ELCA Youth Gathering in New Orleans
- 20. What is ServiceLearning? An intentional process for creating service experiences with deeper meaning and lasting impact.
- 22. Step 1 -Preparation The usual: - Fundraising - Gathering paperwork - Gathering supplies - Making travel arrangements - Packing up / getting ready
- 23. Step 1 -Preparation Don’t forget about: - Community building - Bible study - Learning about the context - Commissioning service - Sharing expectations
- 24. Step 2 -Action - Meaningful orientation - Learn about people, an organization, a community - Receive blessings in return - Begin the reflection process
- 25. Step 3 -Reflection - Begin reflection on-site - Group reflection - Individual reflection - Invite creativity!
- 26. Step 3 -Reflection - paint a picture - compose music - produce a video - capture photographs - compile a scrapbook - make a flyer - create a blog - stage a debate - write a story - create a role play - lead a workshop
- 27. Step 4 -Celebration - Being welcomed home - Continued reflection - Telling the stories to others - Evaluate the experience - Consider other service opportunities
- 28. Key elements of service learning: - Be intentional in your planning - Prepare well - Allow adequate time for reflection - Think beyond “project” or “event”
- 29. Practicing Justice –in New Orleans and at Home Peggy Hahn Associate in Ministry Assistant to the Bishop Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod, ELCA
- 31. So, just exactly whyand how do we figure out all the service projects for over 32,000 people?
- 32. THE PROCESS: Preparation Listening deeply Action Joining local organizations and leaders in what they are doing Reflection Noticing the movement of God Celebration Maximizing the gifts of high school students and adult mentors
- 33. Tune In to yourneighborhood •Deep listening •Assessing gifts & passions •Creating partnerships
- 34. Tune In •Deep listening If we are serious about accompanying our neighbor, we start with deep listening.
- 35. Deep listening meanswe watch our listening filters so we really hear what is being communicated. We suspend our judgment. We lead with questions.
- 36. We notice whatGod is already doing.
- 37. We can’t do everything, but we can do something! What are our passions and gifts? Tune In •Assessing gifts & passions
- 38. We are honestabout the gifts we bring – our own skills, commitment and growth potential.
- 39. Tune In to your neighborhood •Creatingpartnerships
- 40. We create anaction plan that includes local leaders – we don’t rush in trying to fix – rather we join what is already going on, working side by side with others.
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- 42. Accompaniment describes theway God walks with us, and the way our church therefore walks and works among Christian communities in other places and countries. Together we participate in God’s reconciling mission. Accompaniment is both a lens for seeing the world and a way to engage one another in mission. Through the lens of accompaniment, we see that relationships are at the core of mission. This is a new theology.
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- 44. “True compassion ismore than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.” - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 45. Where do youstart? Think about … • Local – in your own neighborhood • Domestic – in our country • Global – in our world
- 46. Our neighborhood (Local) Our country (Domestic) Our world (Global)
- 47. Liminal Space: A thresholdor thin place where God seems near enough to touch
- 48. To live withthem among God’s faithful people, To bring them to the word of God and the holy supper, To teach them the Lord’s Prayer, the Creed, and the Ten Commandments, to place in their hands the holy scriptures, and nurture them in the faith and prayer, SO THAT Your children may learn to trust God, Proclaim Christ through word and deed, Care for others and the world God made, And work for justice and peace. - Evangelical Lutheran Worship
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- 50. www.sallt.org Service learning resources, links, and videos For a FREE copy of a training DVD, email cyfcenter@tlc.edu
- 51. www.elca.org/globalmission Under “Quick Links,” click “Resources for global engagement”
- 52. Service and Learning: A Way of Life Five session DVD with Leader’s Guide Presenters: Peggy Hahn, Sunitha Mortha, Marcia Bunge, Dave Ellingson, Mark Jackson, Linda Staats, Eugene Roehlkepartain www.selectlearning.org