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A Local Faith Community Responds to HIV/Aids Epidemic: An Effective Aids Witness in Decatur, Georgia, 1997

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Title

A Local Faith Community Responds to HIV/Aids Epidemic: An Effective Aids Witness in Decatur, Georgia, 1997

Author

Wicker, Stafford J.

Decade

1990-1999

Abstract

The purpose and focus of this work is to seek practical means by which local African-American congregations can minister to persons living with AIDS (PLWAs), and to institute an educational awareness model which emphasizes prevention of the HIV virus. The impetus for the study was a pastoral clinical education program which brought the researcher in contact with HIV/AIDS patients and their families. The study and resulting model for ministry is designed to inspire clergy and laity to institute sharing and caring ministries for PLWAs. Members of the faith community are challenged to respond to the Biblical mandate of Jesus Christ by developing compassionate outreach programs in their local communities. Having studied the literature, the time has come to demonstrate the practice of this ministry issue at the Antioch African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E.C.) in Decatur, Georgia.

Document Type

text

Format

application/pdf

Date of Award

1997-01-01

Degree Type

dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Ministry (DMin)

Granting Institution

Interdenominational Theological Center

Institution

Interdenominational Theological Center
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Geographic Location

Georgia--Atlanta

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/itc.td:1997_itc_wicker_stafford_j