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Peoples on the Move: Community Research for Ministry and Missions
Peoples on the Move provides pastors, church planters, and missionaries with the tools they need to walk out their door and learn the unique dynamics of their neighborhoods in order to formulate effective strategies for ministry. The book takes a practical approach and contains many examples of how the research is done as well as how community research translates to ministry strategy. It reads like one is walking the streets with the author as he apprentices a new generation of church planters and missionaries.
125 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 11, 2020
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January 21, 2021
Anthony Casey did an excellent job of writing a concise book on how to conduct ethnographic research. The book is written in plain language and provides many examples from his fifteen years experience in researching people and cultures. The book has many practical anecdotes and instructions for how to better understand the community where you live.
It is refreshing to read a research book that wasn't full of jargon the most people do not understand. Don't get me wrong, the book deals with research models but it explains them in everyday terms.
Strongly recommended.
It is refreshing to read a research book that wasn't full of jargon the most people do not understand. Don't get me wrong, the book deals with research models but it explains them in everyday terms.
Strongly recommended.
November 10, 2020
Peoples On the Move is primer on community reasearch need to understand your “neighbor”. And when I say “neighbor”, it might not be the ones who you grew up with. Many factors can contribute to the constant shifting of society and culture. Immigations has the big share of this shift. This change will greatly affect how to will interact to people who we want to share the gospel. The “neighbor” might be down your street you grew up with, an city in Southeast Asia or an isolated tribe in Africa. All of them are changing but what is not changing is for these folks to hear the gospel. Community reasearch can be the answer to navigate us through those changes.
Reading Peoples On the Move, you’ll find it more than a primer but a guidebook that you can apply what you learn immediately. Casey distilled all the essentials to move you to action. It gives your the step by step on how to do it. From gathering information to actual field work to interpreting the data, Casey gives you the pros and cons and everything in between without being technical (well there is a part though but it’s not that long). It’s a drone shot view of something you might consider complex and technical (which it is) yet accessible.
Casey’s experience in community research are littered all over the book that makes a facinating and insightful read that takes you to different places not just in America. If you think doing this work in other places in the world can be tough, then wait for the accounts he have in places in the States. Stories are wrapped within the procedures Casey are laying for the researchers so it’s not all textbook stuff but real life application. For a short book like this, you can really feel that Casey knows the ins and outs of community research.
Anthony Casey brings a great case for community reasearch in Peoples On the Move and stamp it as an indespensible tool for the advancement of Christ church. Pick this book up if your church is considering reaching out certain places that God is moving your into. Read Peoples On the Move as a ordinary Christian so you’ll appreciate community research. It’s encouraging enough to spark interest in this kind of work as part of spreading the gospel.
My verdict:
4.5 out of 5
Reading Peoples On the Move, you’ll find it more than a primer but a guidebook that you can apply what you learn immediately. Casey distilled all the essentials to move you to action. It gives your the step by step on how to do it. From gathering information to actual field work to interpreting the data, Casey gives you the pros and cons and everything in between without being technical (well there is a part though but it’s not that long). It’s a drone shot view of something you might consider complex and technical (which it is) yet accessible.
Casey’s experience in community research are littered all over the book that makes a facinating and insightful read that takes you to different places not just in America. If you think doing this work in other places in the world can be tough, then wait for the accounts he have in places in the States. Stories are wrapped within the procedures Casey are laying for the researchers so it’s not all textbook stuff but real life application. For a short book like this, you can really feel that Casey knows the ins and outs of community research.
Anthony Casey brings a great case for community reasearch in Peoples On the Move and stamp it as an indespensible tool for the advancement of Christ church. Pick this book up if your church is considering reaching out certain places that God is moving your into. Read Peoples On the Move as a ordinary Christian so you’ll appreciate community research. It’s encouraging enough to spark interest in this kind of work as part of spreading the gospel.
My verdict:
4.5 out of 5
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