Quest for Hope in the Slum Community :  A Global Urban Reader / 
Scott Bessenecker, editor. 
 - Waynesboro, GA :  Authentic,  2005. 
 - x, 501 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> "Published in partnership with World Vision Resources." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>The task of the Church / Magay, Melba -- Walking with the poor / Myers, Bryant -- Never the same again : face to face with poverty, to have or not to have? Economically just lifestyles / Grigg, Viv -- The incarnational model : perception of deception? / Baker, Ken -- Kingdom affirmations and commitments / Samual, Vinay and Chris Sugden -- Planting covenant communities of faith in the city / Gollings, Richard -- Changing lives in the developing countries / Mckay, John P. ... [et al.] -- Regional trajectories in the urban transformation / Gugler, Josef -- Reducing poverty by combating AIDS / Okaalet, Peter -- Christian witness through community health / Rowland Stan -- The mystery of missing information / De Soto, Hernando -- Slums in the housing sector / UN Habitat -- The sex trafficking of children in San Diego / Garcia, Amabel Hernandez -- Rape for profit : patterns of abuse / Human Rights Watch/Asia -- Conditions for children in urban areas / Unicef -- The street children scene / Anderson, Jeff -- Champions of justice / Haugen, Gary -- With justice for all / Grigg Viv -- Organizing for community action / Linthicum, Robert -- Development practice : principles and practitioners / Myers, Bryant -- Poverty alleviation and the role of microcredit in Africa / Getu, Makonen -- Serving the world's poor, profitably / Prahalad, C.K. and Allen Hammond -- Ethnopolitical conflict and the changing world order / Gurr, Ted R. and B. Harff -- Excluded neighborhoods / Gornik, Mark -- Water and sanitation / Bosch, C. ... [et al.] -- Health and the environment in urban poor areas / Environmental Health Project -- Population : delusion and reality / Sen, Amartya -- Birth spacing : three to five saves lives / Setty-Venugopal, V. and U.D. Upadhyay -- Beyond the third world city / Dick, H.W. and P.J. Rimmer -- Clearing the way in urban America / Goetz, Edward. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1932805192 (pbk.) 9781932805192 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005021904 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Urban poor.<br/>Slums.<br/>Church and social problems.<br/>Church work with the poor.<br/>Poverty--Religious aspects--Christianity.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Aufsatzsammlung.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV4028  / .Q84 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>261.8/325