TY  - MANSCPT
AU  - Broom,Wendell W.
TI  - Growth of churches of Christ among Ibibios of Nigeria /by Wendell Wright Broom, Sr
AV  - BV3625 .G769 1970
PY  - 1970///
KW  - Churches of Christ
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - Missions
KW  - Church growth
KW  - Ibibio (African people)
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes abstract; Introduction; Methodology; Chapter I. The Ibibio People and Their Ways: A Resume; Chapter II. Christian Missionaries and Churches Prior to 1948; Chapter III. The Rise of the Churches of Christ: 1948 to 1960; Chapter IV. The Church Measurement of 1959; Chapter V. Ten Years Later; Chapter Virgin Islands Church Growth Viewpoint: An Evaluation; Chapter Virgin IslandsI. Training Men to Preach: A Critique and Evaluation; Chapter Virgin IslandsII. Church Growth Answers to Questions That Need Asking; Chapter IX. The Post-War Churches of Christ: Practical Steps Toward a Vision; 1 (leaves 256-268) and index; Legend or History? --; Why Ibibios and not Ibos? --; The Period Covered --; Objectives; Obstacles: Attitude toward numerical data --; Perspective of American Church life --; Sources of the Data: --; Personal observations --; Library data --; Correspondence --; Interviews; A cultural unit --; Population --; Social organization --; Education --; Religion; The Pioneers: Church of Scotland Mission --; Strategy --; The fruit of their work --; Summary of the Church of Scotland Mission --; A Case Study: The Qua Iboe Mission --; An Overview of the Second Wave Missions --; Primitive Methodist Mission --; Roman Catholic Church --; Salvation Army --; Lutheran Church --; Church of God --; The Independent African Churches --; A growing African phenomenon --; The magnitude of Ibibio independency --; An attempt to understand the nature of Independent Churches --; Two answers to the problem --; Summary of Ibibio Churches --; Exploratory missions --; Mission stations --; Assisting a scattered church --; Assisting a people movement --; Assisting a large well-developed African church --; The statistical picture; The Groundwork is Laid --; Reese and Echols visit Essien: 1950 --; Reese and Echols report their findings --; Echols returns for three months: 1951 --; The Mission Takes Shape --; Stategy for the new mission --; Principles and methods: --; Preaching and planting churches in every village --; Village schools --; Short terms and missionary langauge --; American subisdy for Nigerian preachers --; Two year training for preachers --; The succession of twenty missionary families begins --; Names and dates (see Appendix) --; Analysis of missionaries --; Distinctive contributions of various men --; Results: many baptisms and churches --; A Disturbing Question: Are We Getting Real Churches? --; The increasing burden of subsidy --; Fraternal roles so easily become paternal --; The oversight involved in subsidy --; The haunting question: stewards or hirelings --; Questions that must be asked --; A Transition Plan: 1958-1959 --; A plan for reducing American500n subsidy --; The transitional plan is carried out --; Estimated results --; The On-Going Strategy: 1960 to 1967 --; Further expansion into Ibo tribe --; Village schools are expanded into a secondary school --; Third year of training in Bible at Ukpom; The Need for Evaluation --; The Process of Evaluating the Churches --; Was My Sample Truly Representative --; How the Churches of Christ began --; Size and location of the churches --; Church buildings --; Elders --; Attendance at services --; Collections --; Bible training in Sunday Schools --; Membership gains and losses --; Polygamy --; Literacy --; Leadership training --; Emigration --; Outreach --; Summary of Ibibio Churches of Christ: 1959; Further Developments in Policy: 1960 to 1967 --; The Civil War with Biafra --; The Ibo background --; Ibibio involvement in secession --; Federal invasion of Biafra --; The upset for the Church --; What is the Present Condition of These Churches?; Church Growth Viewpoint: A Position Statement --; God wants a growing church --; A growing Church is essential to a believing world --; The biblical basis of church growth --; The Church has always grown by the movement of peoples into Christ --; Such growth has a sound biblical basis: the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, recognizes (ta ethne): the tribes --; People movements give birth to indigenous churches --; Cultural barriers to church growth --; The decision-making processes of human society --; Receptivity or resistance of these units of society must be taken into account --; The Church growth viewpoint: solution to the problem of stopped churches --; Evaluation of the Spread of the Churches of Christ among the Ibibios --; Was this a people movemnt? --; What was the relation of social services and church planting? --; Ibibio Churches of Christ located on four descriptive axes --; What commonly causes stoppage in people movements? --; Did this stoppage occur among Churches of Christ in Ibibio? --; What could the American Churches of Christ have done?; Leadership Structure of Churches of Christ --; Leadership Function --; Ukpom Bible College --; The Training Institution --; The Training Course --; Outgoing Students --; Summary and Analysis --; Strengths: --; A record of sustained church growth --; Diffusion of training beyond the campus --; One week annual training course --; Weaknesses: --; Inadequate shepherding of thechurches --; Student motivation --; Food allowance system --; Assimilation of trained men --; Selection of students --; Age level of students --; Professionalism among graduates --; Relevance of training --; Questions --; Greater Nigerian responsibility in financing and leadership --; A time for re-evaluation --; A Model for the Post-War Era: Leadership Training by Extension --; The Guatemala plan --; The relevance of extension training for the Ibibio; Is There a Better Solution to the Problem of Stopped Churches Among Receptive People --; of The Independent African Churches --; of the entry of new foreign missions --; Did the Churches of Christ Do Right in Entering Ibibio to Plant Churches? --; Had Churches of Christ not come, would tehse churches have stayed in the traditional denominations? --; What is the Relationship of the Christian Schools to Church Growth? --; What Were the Bridges Across which the Churches of Christ Spread into Other Regions?; The Profile of the Post-War Church --; Wise Subsidy: The Godly and Effective Use of Money --; Welcoming the Multitudes into the Church --; Deepening Spirituality in Men and Churches --; Task Force Missions --; Leadership Training by Extension --; Lectureships and Conferences --; A New Role among the Independent Churches - The Unrecognized Nominal Fringe --; And Suddenly It Was Summer!; 2
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