MC Update--April 2017
During 2017 we are syncing our
CORE MC entries with our monthly MC Updates.
Essentially, we'll add a monthly weblog entry that contains brief excerpts from
the MC Update for that month. By linking their two
straplines together, the purpose and potential for connecting these two MCA
tools becomes clear: "expanding the global impact of member
care...reflections, research, and resources for good practice." May these
materials encourage and equip you as you endeavor to practice member care well,
with character, competence, and compassion.
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Re-Member
Care
This Update focuses on some amazing people--remembering
several deceased colleagues who have been instrumental in pioneering and
developing member care. It includes a photo of each colleague and a
link to our MCA website to access information about their lives (several links
to tributes/short histories). Although they are no longer with us on the earth,
their voices and examples still speak clearly to us today. We miss them dearly,
yet know they are in the best of care as they are "away from the body
and at home with the Lord" (2 Cor. 5:8, NIV). We finish the Update with an invitation to journey further into member care by engaging
with an article that overviews 100 years of member care history.
Re-member care!
We
want to invite you to continue in the "re-member care" flow of this Update by journeying further into our member care
history.... One way to undertake this historical journey is
to download, reflect on, and interact with the article, The Missional Heart
of Member Care (IBMR, April 2015). Starting in the pre-1960 era and traveling into the
mid-2010s, the article highlights trends in member care development and
features commentary around a selection of core quotes from some of the
outstanding colleagues who have contributed to the development of the member
care field. Their exemplary lives of faith in action and the compelling voices
in their writings still speak clearly and powerfully to us today (Heb. 11:4).
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Share this Update with your colleagues and networks.
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Kelly and Michèle
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