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Mission flourishes when relationships are characterized by mutuality--a difficult, but important, balance to sustain. While there are times for the relief efforts and traditional charity when disasters strike, if years later the same people are receiving the same aid, an opportunity is lost. Mission that moves beyond relief to empowerment opens up ways to address systemic forms of oppression and poverty. This book is ideal for groups who want to engage or re-engage in mission. This book looks at ZOE, a Christian non-profit and United Methodist advanced special, as an exemplar of sustainable mission that can empower even the most vulnerable to help themselves. Proceeds of sales go to ZOE.

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One of the best things that God has done in the church in recent years is a recovery of the sense that the church IS mission. The church is God's sending into the world, in word and deed, agents of the realm of God. We could have no two better guides in this recovery of the missional church than Laceye and Gaston. With their experience in theological education, ZOE, and the local church, they show us practical ways for every church, not only to be in mission but in sustainable mission. This book is a great gift, particularly for pastors and churches who are trying to keep up with Jesus's mission to God's world.--Will Willimon, Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry and United Methodist Bishop, retiredThis is an extremely important and powerful book for anyone seeking a better understanding of mission and how we can make a deeper and more significant impact in the world. Our church has partnered with ZOE for almost a decade and, truly, they are one of the best missiological organizations out there.--Mark Sorensen, Lead Pastor of The Harvest service at The Woodlands United Methodist Church, Woodlands, TexasZOE invites us into Christ's mission as humble learners, encouragers, and partners. The journey of ZOE is a remarkable unfolding of receptivity and generosity, of learning and teaching, of creating and observing. This book will help us celebrate possibility and live faithfully into Christ's mission in the world.--Hope Morgan Ward, Resident Bishop, The United Methodist Church, North Carolina Conference

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Laceye C. Warner is Associate Professor of the Practice of Evangelism and Methodist Studies at Duke Divinity School and a United Methodist elder. Gaston Warner is Chief Executive Officer of ZOE, a non-profit organization that empowers over twenty-eight thousand orphans and children in seven countries, across three continents including: Africa, India, and Guatemala; and an elder in The United Methodist Church.

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