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2005 NCM Annual Report

AIDS

• “AIDS and You”
• Could You Just Hold Me?
• Life After AIDS
• A Little African Parable about AIDS

Generosity

• The Altruism Gene
• Cali's Christian Cartel
• Be Good for Nothing
• Biblical Budgets, General Assembly and the Poor
• The Bonus Years
• By All Means
• A Dozen Great Reasons to Give
• Who's Laughing Now?

People Stories

• Ana’s Violin and Other Broken Things
• Be Good for Nothing
• By All Means
• Changing the World One Person at a Time
• Concientizacion
• Flagging Interest
• On Not Re-inventing Boiling Water
• A Pencil in the Hand of God
• The Pool Room and the Ark of the Covenant

The Bible and Compassion

• Biblical Budgets, General Assembly and the Poor
• Biblical Basics on Justice
• 1 Corinthians 13
• Graduating from Jabez to Nehemiah
• Pentecostalism and Compassion
• Scriptures on Compassion According to The Message by Eugene Peterson
• Texts for Biblical Studies in Compassionate Ministry Themes
  Part 1
  Part 2
  Part 3

Children/Young People and Compassion

• Maximum God for a mini-world
• Blank Spaces and Wild Places
• Caution and Courage in Indianapolis
• Concientizacion
• Forming Compassion
• Putting Upside Down Things Right

Metaphors and Parables on Compassion

• Blood Flow
• A Little African Tale to Think About
• Oh Lord, May We Go In Your Bathtub
• Report to the District Assembly
• The Sad Tale of Brothers Fickle and Tickle
• What TV Evangelists Teach Me
• Who’s Laughing Now?

Hunger

• Ghoulish Facts
• World Hunger Abroad, the Atkins Diet at Home

Hope

• Oh Calcutta, Oh
• Cali’s Christian Cartel
• Ana’s Violin and Other Broken Things
• Could You Just Hold Me?
• Death Need not be so sick
• A Dozen Great Reasons to Give
• From Census-Taking to Name Affirming
• From Eden to the New Jerusalem
• A Pencil in the Hand of God

Disaster Response

• The Case of the Missing Millions
• Despair and Dreams in Peru
• Inundated
• Prayers that Morph
• Wanted: Enrollees for the Institute of Total Encouragement
• Tsunami Report
  

Stewardship

• Christians Care for Creation
• A Dozen Great Reasons to Give
• In Sod We Trust
• Report to the District Assembly
• Right On!
• The Sacrament of Consumerism

Nazarene Heritage/Connections

• The Compassionate Impulse and the Church of the Nazarene
• Cycling Through Life
• Discovering Disability in our Genes
• Dr. Phineas F. Bresee on “The Poor”, etc.
• The Generals on Compassion and Evangelism
• Interview with Larry Bollinger
• Interview with Roxanne Alexander
• John Wesley's Rules for Healthy Living
• Mixing Bed Partners and Cords
• On Not Re-inventing Boiling Water
• Pentecostalism and Compassion
• The Problem of “Trifocal Vision”
• When Ripping Clothes and Playing Cards Wins

Reflections

• Creativity, Grace, and Suffering
• Newal
• Love in Three Ventricles
• Perplexed in the City
• Reflections on Lent
• Valuables and Values
• When Ripping Clothes and Playing Cards Wins
• Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?

Social Justice

• Organizations that Minister to Children
• The Modern Day Slave Trade
• The Compassionate Impulse and the Church of the Nazarene
• Do You Care?
• Dr. Phineas F. Bresee on “The Poor”, etc.
• Flagging Interest
• Looks of Love
• A Pencil in the Hand of God
• Quotations about CM from Religious Literature
• Quotations from History about CM
• The Wesleyan Alternative Seen Through Cuban Eyes
• Why Servanthood is Bad
  

Reconciliation

• From Hellmont to Belmont
• Flagging Interest
• Reconciliation Gone Wild

Disabilities

• Fanning the Flame of Creativity

Resources

• Fair Trade Resources
• Video Resources
• Top 10 Web Sites