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    Spiritual nurture for the hearing impaired :implication for Christian education in the church
    (2014-04-10) Mapesa, Caroline Ayuma
    The purpose of this grounded theory study was to develop theory about meeting spiritual nurture needs of the hearing impaired. Two congregations of the hearing impaired in Nairobi were used. The study incorporated interviews with ten members of the two congregations under study as well as several site observations. Three video documentaries were also used. A three-element phenomenon was ascertained. The first was studying the culture of the Deaf Community to be familiar with it, accept the deaf in their culture and be sensitive to it as one endeavors to nurture the deaf spiritually. The second element was communication issues. The deaf only communicate effectively in their local sign language. Sign language could also be supplemented with interpretation, lip reading, and the written page. The communication of the Christian message in the deaf language led to spiritual growth. The third element was deaf fellowships which participants included deaf churches, children and youth fellowships, school ministry and other deaf forums in which the deaf met for spiritual nurture. The deaf fellowships required deaf leadership in form of deaf pastors, evangelists and other deaf church workers. This ensured conducting of spiritual nurture programs in the deaf language and culture. A visual model of the entire process of meeting spiritual nurture needs was advanced. Suggestions were made to facilitate meeting of spiritual nurture needs of the hearing impaired.
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    The effectiveness of discipleship methods used by the Life Challenges Africa for discipling of MBBS: its implication to mission
    (2014-04-10) Kivuva, Jacob M
    Life Challenge Africa is a resource and development centre that promotes Muslim discipleship programs for MBBs. It has been in operation for the last thirty one years. This research sought to evaluate the effectiveness of the methods which Life Challenge Africa uses in its discipleship programs of MBBs and its implications to mission work. The researcher interviewed nine leaders and nine disciples with Muslim background context who were his main source of information for this work. The research designed from research question which guided him in his research for this study. The scales of 1-5 where one represents the most effective method and five represents the least ineffective method were used to determine the effectiveness of the methods. It was found out from the result that individual discipleship, bible study and listening to bible stories were methods which were highly valued and this showed that they were highly favored by both the MBBs and the disciplers in L.C.A. But still there were challenges which came out clearly from the respondents. The challenges include limited numbers Of disciples, lack of training materials and poor attendances were pointed out. Therefore, the research showed that L.C.A. need to give more attention on meeting the need of more disciples, finances to buy more materials and encourage the disciples to improve on their class attendance. It should also maintain the spirit of disciplining of MBBs, if we need the MBBs to be established in the Christian truth and also become disciplers of the same.