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The Nazarene Overseas Filipino Worker: equipping God's missionary people in the Church of the Nazarene

Eileen Ruger

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Academic (Thesis, Dissertation, Etc.)

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English

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Description / Abstract

ABSTRACT This study sought to strategize how the Church of the Nazarene can equip and empower Filipino Christians for cross-cultural evangelism among Muslims in Asia and Eurasia regions. The current global mission strategy of the Church of the Nazarene is to go to where the church is not yet. This research explored the problem of how to incorporate Filipino Christians, who find employment opportunities in areas of the world where traditional mission strategies cannot go, into this mission strategy. The research questions this study investigated include: 1. What biblical exemplars illustrate God using diaspora as a means to further His Kingdom? 2. What does the social science literature reveal about the cultural challenges of Overseas Filipino Workers? 3. What contextual issues, needs, values, and missional perspectives characterize Nazarene Overseas Filipino Workers? 4. What processes, methods, and strategies can the Church of the Nazarene Global Mission use to empower and facilitate Nazarene Overseas Filipino Workers for cross-cultural ministry? This investigation compared and analyzed current discipleship materials available for Overseas Filipino Workers. The methodology of action research, along with surveys and focus groups with Overseas Filipino Workers, conducted by Nazarene Filipino districts across Asia and Eurasia, produced findings on how they adjust to cross-cultural living and the relationship of their work to their faith. The study also examined the Church of the Nazarene’s Global Mission model and policies to encounter ways in which these policies can be expanded to accommodate the Overseas Filipino Workers as cross cultural evangelists. Other denominations’ agencies were investigated to see what missional strategies they implement to accommodate Overseas Filipino Workers. This study is significant in that it brings to light the tremendous untapped missional potential of the Overseas Filipino Workers in the Church of the Nazarene. It will also create strategies for how the Church of the Nazarene can identify, validate, equip, and minister to the Overseas Filipino Workers