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Title: Avian Flu


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Building Bridges Reflecting Gods Love Marg
Pollon Bridges of Love Ministry
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Compassion A Reflection of Gods Love
  • Divine gift love in a man enables him to love
    what is not naturally lovable lepers,
    criminals, enemies, morons, the sulky, the
    superior, and the sneering. C.S. Lewis
  • affection Natural Love
  • friendship Natural Love
  • eros Natural Love
  • caritas Christian Charity, supernatural love
    of God

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The church is only the church when it exists for
others
  • Compassion??
  • Poverty-fighting through collective material
    transfer.
  • Compassion through individual spiritual
    challenge.
  • Compassion suffering together with another,
    suffering with themnot just giving to them.

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On Mission With God
  • As we follow Christ, the Master sets the
    direction and tells us where He is and where He
    is going. Where the Master is, the servant must
    be. The servant respondsnot initiates. We are
    therefore part of Gods Mission.
  • Henry Blackaby and Avery Willis

5
Missional Church or a church with a Mission
program?
  • Missional Church focuses all of its activities
    around its participation in Gods mission in the
    world. It trains people for discipleship and
    witness it worships and practices mutual support
    before the watching world. Understands that the
    congregation itself is sent by God to proclaim
    and to be a sign of the reign of God.
  • Mission Program sees mission as one activity
    alongside many activities of the church. A
    church with a mission sends others to witness on
    its behalf.

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Theology Work of the People
  • Involves
  • A active disciplined thinking of our faith,
    which provides the motivation and direction for
    the churchs ministry around the world.
  • Involves a communal process of conversion and
    witness guided by the presence of the Holy Spirit
    working in, with and through the disciplined
    thinking of the faith.
  • ALL members of the community are invited to
    participate in the direction of the church.

7
Joy of Discovery!
  • Results
  • Forming a context of mutuality.
  • Engaging in faithful conversation
  • Affirming the unity of the Holy Spirit

8
The Mission must come FIRST
  • The mission of the church is to participate in
    the reconciling love of the triune God who
    reaches out to a fallen world in Jesus Christ and
    by the power of the Holy Spirit brings strangers
    and enemies into Gods new and abiding
    community.

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Now, What?
  • Application
  • Pastors must translate intention into reality and
    sustain it.
  • Applied Christianityputting faith into action.
  • Leaders to rally around something they believe in
    and then through a redemptive relationship with
    his congregation, reach their hearts with Gods
    ideas and mission thus achieving unity.

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Recap
  • Compassion
  • Supernatural love for God which results in an
    unnatural love for others.
  • Personal involvement, often sacrificial living.
  • Need time, commitment and total church
    involvement to have unity within the body.

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Attempting the Ordinary
  • Being authentic
  • Most Christians are closet member of CFJ,
    (Cowards for Jesus)
  • Most Christians are suffering from a malady
    called EFD, (Evangelism Frustrations Disorder).
  • Occurs when Christians insist on trying to be
    something they are notnamely brave!
  • Steve Sjogren, Conspiracy of Kindness

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a.k.a. LOST Jim Henderson
  • Traits of ordinariness and humanity - Christians
    who are on a mission get good at
  • Stopping
  • Noticing
  • Listening

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Into Reality
  • We learn by doing, not simply discussing.
  • Training means hands on not attending a
    class.
  • The most significant aspect of our mission in the
    world is simply being there.
  • Unconsciously telling people about Christ, loving
    God and following Christ.
  • As we put Christ on display, people will react to
    us based on what they see of Him.

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An open door for putting our faith into
actionPandemic Preparedness
  • We have seen from past disasters, that a
    Christian response made a significant
    contribution to the apparent miraculous growth
    of the church.
  • The growth of the church, in part, was due to the
    practiced beliefs of Christians.
  • When all normal services break down, quite
    elementary nursing will greatly reduce
    mortality. William McNeill, Plaques Peoples.

15
Spiritual Readiness
  • Prayer is the callisthenics that get us in shape
    for the marathon of service
  • Prayer leads into a deeper unity with the
    compassionate Christ, and will always give rise
    to concrete acts of deeper solidarity with the
    poor, the hungry, the sick, dying and the
    oppressed.
  • Being On Mission with Christ, is seeking his
    agenda and joining him through prayer.

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Sacrificially meeting the needs of the sick and
dying- actualized by those who are intimately
connected to Jesus.
  • Only those who walk closely with the Lord will
    have the strength to nurse the dying like the 1st
    2nd century Christians did in Rome.
  • It depends, not so much on how merciful we are,
    but on how deeply we ourselves love the Lord.

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Physical Readiness
  • Personal commitments bring awesome power.
  • Could a system be in place to be On Mission with
    God to network, mobilize and equip brothers and
    sisters in Christ to be ready as the world
    becomes increasingly burdened with natural
    disaster, pandemics, poverty, disease and war.

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Practical Applications
  • Church building as a non-traditional site.
  • Train members in elementary care-giving.
  • Drivers, neighbourhood programs.
  • House churches, counselling, prayer groups.
  • Food banks, delivery services, child care.
  • Communication networks, data bases.

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Relational Readiness
  • Do we know our neighbours?
  • Are we ready to be more like Jesus and walk in
    His Steps?
  • Are we ready to take the first step and set time
    to pray individually as well as corporately on
    how God would have our church prepare?
  • Are we ready to take action once God has made
    his plan clear?
  • Let us put feet to our faith and take ACTION
    as Christians who Love the Lord.

20
A Spiritual Harvest
  • Can you imagine the spiritual harvest that would
    naturally follow?

21
How does Building Bridges of Love contribute to
the transforming of neighbourhoods?
  • Facilitates partnerships with local churches,
    ministries, Relief Development Agencies,
    Regional Health Authorities, and Government
    Agencies to enhance and expand the mandate of
    compassion within a locality to impact the
    community for Jesus Christ.

22
Vision
  • A calling of the local church to have an
    on-going practical expression of Christs Love to
    the community. Demonstrating in tangible ways by
    sacrificial living, that we love God and our
    fellow man.

23
Mission
  • Reflecting Christs Love in tangible ways
    through Spiritual Readiness, Physical
    Readiness and Relational Readiness.

24
Questions??
  • Is Compassion just for the poor or does it
    transcend all levels of society?
  • Can we do compassion without loving God and our
    neighbour?
  • Is a church a church, if it doesnt exist for
    others?
  • Does God call us to be on mission with Him and
    therefore be prepared for an emergency example
    a pandemic?

25
Principles
  • Incarnational Puts feet and flesh to the
    incarnation of Christ in the community.
  • Intentional Community Engages the church with
    the community.
  • Passionate Spirituality Prayer networks and
    personal prayer for hurting people.
  • Radical Stewardship Financial information and
    assistance. Policy making.
  • Transformational Discipleship Relevant
    discipleship to answer the whys, and hope for
    eternity to deal with the reality of the
    situation.

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Commitments
  • Training of trainers,
  • Equipping churches to effectively care for their
    community.
  • Mobilizing denominations, churches agencies.
  • Praying and gathering a prayer infrastructure.
  • Networking with churches, ministries, health
    authorities, social services, communities
  • Developing appropriate structures within the body
    of Christ.

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A Church Response
  • As part of our research on how denominations are
    responding to the threat of a pandemic, a survey
    was conducted to assess their awareness.
  • The questions asked and the results from the14
    denomination leaders and 4 mission agencies who
    responded to the survey are as follows

28
H5N1 Survey
  • 1. Does your denomination / mission agency have
    a department that deals with
  • healthcare issues,
  • emergency response, or
  • relief and development issues?

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H5N1 Survey
  • 2. As far as you know, has your DENOMINATION
    considered the impact that a pandemic, which
    experts consider to be very likely in the next
    five years, might have on your congregations and
    their neighbours?

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H5N1 Survey
  • 3. As far as you know, has your MISSION AGENCY
    considered the impact that a pandemic, which
    experts consider to be very likely in the next
    five years, might have on your missionaries and
    the people they serve?

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H5N1 Survey
  • 4. Would there be somebody in your DENOMINATION
    or MISSION AGENCY that you could recommend we
    contact in order to pursue a more in depth
    dialogue WITH THE GOAL OF EXPLORING whether your
    denomination or mission agency might benefit from
    some early preparations?

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Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
The following is a presentation developed by Dr.
Tim Foggin for Missionfest Vancouver January,
2006
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Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY TO
CONNECT WITH NEIGHBOURS
CONNECT WITH BUSINESSES
CONNECT WITH GOVERNMENTS
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Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
BEING PREPARED CONTINGENCY PLANNING
HEALTH IMPACT
SOCIAL REPERCUSSIONS
ECONOMIC EFFECT
EVENTUAL RESPONSE
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Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
BUT TODAY IS ABOUT MUCH MORE THAN PANDEMIC
INFLUENZA ITS ALSO ABOUT
BEING READY FOR ANY EMERGENCY
BECOMING A MISSIONAL CHURCH
ENGAGING OUR COMMUNITIES
ITS ALSO ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING
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Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
OUR PURPOSES
KINGDOM-BUILDING
BRIDGE-BUILDING
RECONNECTING CHURCH AND HEALTH IN OUR
COMMUNITIESTHIS IS SHALOM!
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Avian Flu
Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
  • May 2005 through January 2006

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May 2005
Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
H5N1
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June 2005
Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
H5N1
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July 2005
Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
H5N1
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August 15, 2005
Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
H5N1
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August 31, 2005
Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
H5N1
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September 2005
Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
H5N1
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October 2005
Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
H5N1
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November-December 2005
Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
H5N1
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January 2006
Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
H5N1
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Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
2006?
2007?
H7N7?
2008?
H2N2?
2009?
H3N2?
2010?
H5N1?
2011?
H9N2?
2012?
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Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
IN ORDER TO PREPARE FOR ANY FUTURE EVENT
FRAMEWORK We must first ASSESS the
RISKS Then consider how to MITIGATE and PREPARE
for it And eventually RESPOND and undertake
RECOVERY
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Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
OUR GOALS TODAY
ASSESS the risk of an influenza pandemic from a
church perspective
Consider ways by which to mitigate risk
Consider the forming of a church pandemic
planning group
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Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
What is the risk of being hit by an asteroid?
What is the risk of having your house burn down?
What is the risk of having an influenza pandemic
this decade?
What is the risk of having an influenza pandemic
in our lifetime?
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Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
AN INFLUENZA PANDEMIC WILL IT REALLY HAPPEN?!
1968
1957
1918
1889 and back for at least past five centuries
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Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
AN INFLUENZA PANDEMIC WILL IT REALLY
HAPPEN?! AND WHATS THE BIG DEAL?!!
1968 1,000,000 deaths
1957 1,000,000 deaths
1918 20,000,000
to 50,000,000 deaths
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Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
AN INFLUENZA PANDEMIC WILL IT REALLY
HAPPEN?! WHAT WOULD WE DO IF WE KNEW ANOTHER
TSUNAMI WAS COMING?
WHAT IF WE KNEW 1,000,000 WOULD DIE THIS TIME ?
WHAT IF WE KNEW 2,000,000 TO 7,000,000 WOULD DIE ?
The 1918 flu pandemic killed more people in 24
weeks than HIV / AIDS has killed in 24 years
The 1918 flu pandemic killed more people in one
year than the black plague killed in one century
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Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
AN INFLUENZA PANDEMIC WILL IT REALLY
HAPPEN?! THE NATURAL HISTORY of the INFLUENZA
VIRUS makes it VERY CLEAR THAT A FLU PANDEMIC
WILL OCCUR AGAIN
Based on the 1968 pandemic, we can expect from 2
to 7 million deaths
What if next time it were more like in 1918? How
many million then?
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Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
AN INFLUENZA PANDEMIC WILL IT REALLY HAPPEN?!
While 10,000 to 60,000 deaths in Canada alone is
already too much
Consider the implications of interruptions of
public services
Consider the social disruption caused by altered
routines of school, work, and leisure activities
Consider the economic impacts if SARS, which
only killed 44 in Canada, then what would a
flu pandemic situation be like?
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IN THE NEWS THE PANDEMIC THREAT
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20th CENTURY PANDEMICS
1918 - Spanish Flu
1957 - Asian Flu
1968 - Hong Kong Flu
20-40 million deaths
1 million deaths
1 million deaths
H3N2
H1N1
H5N1?
H2N2
1920 1940
1960 1980
2000
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Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
IMPLICATIONS for us here today
From a church point of view
From a para-church or from a mission agency point
of view
For our families and neighbours
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Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
Missions Fest Vancouver 2006 Panel discussion
moderated by Dr. T.M. Foggin
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Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
Missions Fest Vancouver 2006 Panel discussion
moderated by Dr. T.M. Foggin
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Of Churches, Pandemics, and Emergency Preparedness
Missions Fest Vancouver 2006 Panel discussion
moderated by Dr. T.M. Foggin
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Contact Information
  • Marg Pollon at margpollon_at_bridgesoflove.net
  • Dr. Tim Foggin at http//groups.yahoo.com/group/c
    hurch_emergency_preparedness
  • www.churchresponse.org
  • If you would like to become a member of the
    Pandemic Preparedness Group, please sign in at
  • http//groups.yahoo.com/group/church_emergency_pr
    eparedness/join
  • Preparedness Guide is found on our web site.
    Please feel free to copy this for your
    information and to share with your church.
  • let your light shine before men,
  • that they may see your good deeds and praise your
    Father in heaven.
  • Matthew 516

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