Missionaries in the Amazon

Paper Summary:

This paper describes a planned project to make a 30-minute videotape, showing the rationale and activities of a Korean-American missionary with the indigenous people in the Amazon River jungles in South America. The author explains the importance of this mission, describing its content and expected audience. It also lists the questions that the film expects to address.

Outline:
Synopsis, with overview of story and approach
Importance of the story
Information of how piece will be presented and appreciated: specialized audience.
Questions to be answered
Review of library and videotape research to date with bibliography and annotations.
Index of experts to be consulted as part of research process with brief biographical information.
Summary of one research interview carried out
Overview of coverage of video to support story to be told in detail, as a narrative.
List of four potential funding sources for project. Explain why each would be interested in project.

From the Paper:

"The video will be shown to audiences in churches throughout the United States. It will be added to a catalog of relevant contemporary topics distributed by a Christian film producer and churches may select it through the catalog. A flyer, advertising the merits of the video will be sent to all the churches in the different regions of the U.S. that have mission programs, or who are planning to fund mission work. An offer will be made to have someone come to speak on mission work in the Amazon jungles, with the video being the centerpiece of the symposium, showing the actual missionaries at work on the mission field, how much their work has accomplished, and how much needs to be done yet.
The film-maker will be available to travel to various venues in order to speak on this topic and show the film, answering questions afterward, with the hope that audiences will be inspired to take a personal interest in this particular mission field and sympathize with and support missionaries on the whole. Along with the offer to speak is the suggestion that the churches who hold these symposiums be prepared for offers to go as missionaries from among the viewers and for offers of money to support the program that is being revealed in the film."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Dilke, Charles Wentworth. "Review of Greater Britain." The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal, Vol CXXIX, Jan-Apr 1869.
• ELCA. "Global mission: frequently asked questions" Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. 27 Sep 2007. <http://www.elca.org/globalmission/policy/faq.html#How%20many>.
• Fagan, Geraldine. "Russia: How many missionaries now denied visas?" Forum 18 News. 7 Sep 2005. < http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=644>.
• Kraft, Larry W. "First International Congress on Church Planting among the Amazon River populations." The Brazil 2010 Project. 10 Mar 1998. <http://www.ad2000.org/conferences/amazon.htm>.
• LPTS Home. "Fall lectures feature experts on missions, peace and justice." Louisville Seminary, 15 Oct 2007. Website: <http://www.lpts.edu/News-Events/article.asp?intID=209>.

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