Because learning happens everywhere, not just on the computer, we have carefully selected offline materials to supplement and enrich the online course content. There will be assignments using these materials in addition to the online assignments. These materials are required for effective, comprehensive learning in this course.

Reaching the World in Our Own Backyard is designed as a guidebook for Christians to better understand and engage people from other countries including immigrants, foreign exchange students, and tourists. By both region and religion, author Rajendra K. Pillai explains cultural considerations and common points of reference to readers eager to share the good news of Jesus Christ with foreign-born individuals.
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This is the stirring story of the kind of village it takes to raise troubled, unwanted children. In 1994, the first families moved into Hope Meadows, a former military base in central Illinois. Academic activist Brenda Eheart developed this multigenerational alternative to the traditional foster care system. In exchange for adopting up to four special-needs children, parents receive free housing and a salary of $19,000 a year. Senior citizens obtain low rent in exchange for volunteer and mentorship work, and a therapist lives on-site. A collection of profiles of the various and sundry families, this book grew out of the veteran journalist-author's story for the Chicago Tribune in 1996. Chapters brim with testimonials and poignant case studies.
FREE (Actual Retail Value $24.95)

Over the past century the evangelical view of the nature and process of ‘Christian conversion’ has been steadily challenged by social gospel theologies and the move towards a world religion. In Turning to God, David Wells calls for a return to a biblical understanding of conversion. Drawing on the Bible, Church history and modern conversion experiences, he presents a convincing and stimulating picture which takes into account both the theology and the experience of conversion.
FREE (Actual Retail Value $12.95)

Rachel Scott and her killer Eric Harris both talked about starting a "chain reaction." Eric used violence to kill and destroy at Columbine High School. But Rachel chose another path. In a personal creed she wrote one month before her death in the Columbine tragedy, she explained her conviction that if one person goes out of his or her way to show compassion, it will start a world-changing chain reaction of kindness.  For Rachel, this was a solemn calling.  And now her father, Darrell Scott, is carrying on her crusade by challenging people of all ages to commit themselves to creating a revolution of compassion that can make a real difference in our troubled world. Chain Reaction spells out this challenge in compelling detail, providing moving examples of practical compassion and giving illustrations from Rachel's life and journals.
FREE (Actual Retail Value $11.15)

Getting There from Here: This book provides helpful and insightful ways in which young people may lead a good life in the hopes of reaching heaven.
FREE (Actual Retail Value $8.50)

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