JustFaith, a thirty-week adult educational and formational process, offers an opportunity for people of faith to embark upon a spiritual journey into compassion. Most of us long to be a generous and compassionate people. However, occasions to explore this tradition in a deliberate and engaging way have largely not been available. JustFaith provides a lively and challenging format to read, view, discuss, pray, experience and be formed by the justice tradition that changes lives, inspires faithful witness, and transforms the world through love and service. JustFaith is an extensive, conversion-based process that provides a context in which participants can grow in their commitment to care for the vulnerable and to become advocates for justice, and serves to strengthen the growing commitment of churches to be agents of social transformation, mercy and compassion. The JustFaith program has been offered in over nine hundred churches from a variety of denominations in thirty-seven states throughout the country.

This kit contains all the resources (23 books and videos) needed for teaching the JustFaith class. Participants will need to purchase individual copies of each book, available through Sowers Books. Videos are for in class viewing. Optimum class size is limited to 10-12 students.

For more information about the JustFaith program, visit www.justfaith.org, or email at: info@justfaith.org.

This fast-paced video gives further perspective on the three mission study themes for 2005. The video can be used in conjunction with the mission study book or as a discussion starter on any of the three topics.
1. India & Parkistan: Church leaders from both countries describe social, political, and theological issues that impact these two countries and their churches. 2. Public Education: A look at programs through which local churches work to enrich the lives of public school children. 3. Children of the Bible: The stories of Joseph and his brothers and Jairus' daughter as told to us by children.

Storyteller Noa Baum, an Israeli who began a heartfelt dialogue with a Palestinian woman while living in the United States, weaves together their memories and their mothers' stories. She creates a moving testimony illuminating the complex and contradictory history and emotions that surround Jerusalem for Israelis and Palestinians alike.

An eloquent, challenging and inspiring six-week introduction to Christian ethics that avoids pat answers and simplistic lists of dos and don'ts. Dr. Wheeler focuses on the formation of Christian character, citing helpful examples both from Scripture and from Church history. She concludes with a test case: the issue of money and consumption. What would Paul, Augustine, Luther and Wesley say to modern Christians about their use of resources?

The six video lessons (20 minutes each) include:
1. Introduction: A Christian Way of Living?
Four Models for Christian Ethics:
2. Scripture: The Story that Forms Us
3. Augustine: Ordering Our Loves
4. Luther: The Spirit of Christian Life
5. Wesley: Transforming Grace
6. Conclusion: Learning from Our Traditions- A Test Case

All of us are called to be peacemakers in our families, our neighborhoods, and the wider world we influence. This collection of essays and true stories of leading Christian pacifists over the past century will challenge you to think seriously about your role as a peacemaker in today's world. Includes 32 chapters, divided into 5 parts. 279 pages.

Part I: The Biblical and Theological Themes of Peace
Part II: Church History and Issues of Peace
Part III: Applications of Christian Preaching
Part IV: Stories of Christian Peacemaking
Part V: Christian Reflections on September 11, 2001

As globalization gains momentum, industrialized and developing countries are, to a greater or lesser extent, becoming increasingly similar, with middle-class luxury and abject poverty coexisting side by side. This program explores the repercussions of globalization as well as a growing resentment toward the G8 countries and nongovernmental organizations. Concerns over third-world debt, environmental degradation, biodiversity, the concentration of power, and the future of democracy are aired by globally oriented young adults who are poised to inherit a world without borders…or rules.

Tape 1:
Introduction: Special circumstances like rape, incest, deformity...etc will not be dealt here.
1. What really Happened in Roe v. Wade and Why?
2. Understanding Those who Hold different Views
3. Biblical and Theological Reflections on Abortion
4. Stories of Women.

Tape 5 of 6.
In order to give new focus to discussions, we seek biblical help to understand this sensitive subject. (Tape 3 in this series is missing)

Four thousand years ago Abraham, considered the forefather of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, journeyed from the Iraqi desert to Arabia to Canaan. This film follows that journey. It is the fascinating story of the life of Abraham with a unique Biblical, Koranic, and historical background. Well-known Muslim Arab writer and actor Hisham Yanis from Jordan, and Alex Anski, a Jewish journalist and actor guide us as they converse and compare versions in the Torah and the Quran. Representing the sons of Abraham - Isaac and Ishmael, the Jordanian and the Israeli travel together in the very lands of Abraham's sojourn, discussing the conflicts and problems of the past and of the present.

The term "Affluenza" in this video is defined as: American epidemic of shopping, overwork, debt and pursuit of money. Tony Campolo tells us about a cure that's actually documented in the Bible - "Sell all you have and give it to the poor." Campolo says we can and tells us how. He tackles forbidden subjects such as our money, our time, and our stuff. He is really telling us that we must simplify in order to live fully and that simplicity is a path to the abundant life Jesus said he came to bring.
Tape 1 of 6.
Tony Campolo describes a simple lifestyle and an affluent lifestyle, followed by discussion about the anxiety that wealth creates and what Jesus says we should be seeking.