This book contains guidelines for training pastors and lay church leaders in addressing the pastoral challenges of the AIDS epidemic. These challenges affect churches in their teachings about sickness and healing, their forms of worship and their pastoral ministries. The book is based on 12 years of experience by the Organisation of African Instituted Churches (OAIC), based in Nairobi, Kenya. The author, Nicta Lubaale, is an ordained pastor who has been involved in faith-based and community responses to HIV and AIDS since 1991. Since January 2007 he has been General Secretary of the OAIC.

'Pastoral Action' includes case studies of the work of several African independent churches which, with the support of the OAIC, have responded in particularly innovative ways to the challenges of the AIDS epidemic. These stories are drawn from OAIC member churches in Kenya and Uganda, but they are relevant to churches throughout sub-Saharan Africa, and beyond.

The book also contains numerous role plays, discussion guidelines, Biblical references, individual case studies and illustrations by African artists.

To order copies:

Organisations in Kenya, please contact: OAIC, Junction of Riara/Kingara Roads, PO Box 21736, Nairobi 00505, Kenya. Email: Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! Sie müssen JavaScript aktivieren, damit Sie sie sehen können. . Tel.: +254 20 387 8419. Website: www.oaic.org.

Outside Kenya, please contact: TALC, P.O. Box 49, St Albans AL1 5TX, U.K. Tel.: +44 1727 853869. Email: Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! Sie müssen JavaScript aktivieren, damit Sie sie sehen können. . Website: www.talcuk.org.

Glen Williams, Strategies for Hope Trust, 93 Divinity Road, Oxford OX4 1LN, UK. Tel.: +44 1865 723078. Email: Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! Sie müssen JavaScript aktivieren, damit Sie sie sehen können. . Website: www.stratshope.org.

This resources can be found on the SFH website: http://www.stratshope.org/b-cc-04-pastoral.htm and http://www.stratshope.org/b-cc-05-community.htm.

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