"Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream" (Amos 5:24 NIV). Some Christian, evangelical, and Nazarene leaders today have become concerned about an increasing interest in social justice and compassionate ministries. In the Bible we see that holiness and righteousness are closely related to justice. Living Mission-Act Justly focuses on the global need for clean water, mission to disabled people, mission to women, sanctity of life, child labor, and the fear of foreigners (xenophobia) is explored in the Global Melting Pot lesson. All of the lessons focus on how the Bible asks us to respond to the issues and how Nazarene missions and missionaries minister God's justice and compassion in the world today.

Living Mission-Act Justly includes a leader's planner, six lessons, six videos, two CAUSES, AME Classic lessons (mission education lessons in a simpler, non-media driven format), and more. NMI's hope is you and your people will be challenged to get involved in making a Kingdom difference in your community after studying the lessons. May God bless you as you learn and then live out the mission to which He calls you. 

I've had inquiries from some people about how to deliver the materials that we are given. 

Apparently people are finding the materials very short, and have run out of materials well before the end of the church year. Here are some of my suggetions that I'd like to share with everyone: 

I divide the lessons into 2 months so that I have 12 instead of 6. Then I take the topic and find out as much information as I can about the topic that applies here in Ontario and in my own city. For example: The lesson on Ministry to the Disabled - I went on line to find out all I could about the Government of Ontario's regulations concerning people with disabilities (don't call people "disabled") and then discovered all the agencies that deal with people with disbilites here in my own city, downloaded their information and put together a study related to that and how we here can plug into those agencies and assist in anyway we can. 

I've invited someone from the Community Living Association to come to speak about how we can assist people with disabilites in our church and to talk about our joint project of "Cooking Buddies" that our youth group is involved with. Our youth meet with young adults every Monday evening for 2 months to teach them cooking skills, cook a meal together, play games, have a devotional and finish with a meal for all of the buddies and their families.  

For the second month study on the same topic I deal with the topic globally and how our church is ministering to people with disabilities such as the Mango Tree Center in Tonga. 

For the lesson on Human Trafficking (last year's topic) I found out what Canada is doing to combat that, got a speaker from our own congregation who worked for the Minister in Ottawa responsible for legislation, found out about the local organization that works to combat this horrible problem, went to lots of websites for information, created a quiz to find out how much our peole knew about the problem of human trafficking, and whether they knew what signs to look for if they suspected that someone they knew might be a vicitm of that. It was quite interesting to see how much they did and didn't know!