Rubble to resurrection : churches respond in the Canterbury quakes / Melissa Parsons.
Publisher: Auckland [New Zealand] : Daystar Books, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780992255299
- 0992255295
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Main Collection | John Kinder Theological Library | DU430.C5 PAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | J01027271 | ||
New Zealand/Pacific | John Kinder Theological Library | BX5762.2 PAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | J01030476 | ||
Anglican Resource Centre | Theology House | DU441.C5 PAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | A00419094 |
"Revised and reprinted, June 2014"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Ngaire Button -- Introduction -- Prologue : the Earth groans -- Part one. The Church responds -- Responding to the emergency -- Distributing essential supplies -- Establishing response and recovery centres -- Offering pastoral care -- Helping the international community -- Caring for the kids -- Supporting the seniors -- Praying for the city -- Providing psychosocial support -- Working together -- Part two. The Church grieves -- Mourning lost loved ones -- Grieving lost worship spaces -- Enduring the insurance blues -- Functioning in 'the new normal' -- Encouraging the weary -- Walking with the wounded -- Making sense of the unthinkable -- Part three. The Church rebuilds -- Restoring the soul -- Strengthening communities -- Assisting the rebuild -- Planning intelligently -- Sensing the spiritual climate -- Passing on our learnings -- Afterword and call to prayer -- Appendix 1. In remembrance -- Appendix 2. Participating interviewees -- Appendix 3. Participating churches -- Appendix 4. Thanks to out-of-town churches -- Appendix 5. Thanks to non-church agencies.
Previously untold stories of the churches' response in the earthquakes which struck the greater Christchurch region between September 2010 and December 2011 - one of the largest natural disasters in New Zealand history. How did the churches themselves fare? How did the ordinary folk in the pews reach out to their suffering neighbours? How can leassons from this experience be of benefit in the future?