Teenage care by the Methodist church of Southern Africa :The case of Port Elizabeth North circuit (TPT 900)
- Authors: Jibiliza, Xolisa Terrance
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: Church work with teenagers Teenagers -- Pastoral counseling of Teenage pregnancy
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD (Theology)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/17884 , vital:41973
- Description: The research study sought to acknowledge that there was a need of caring for teenagers by the Methodist Church of Southern Africa as majority of them responds to their adolescent stage with bad behaviour. This was a critical stage that challenged teenagers and required much more attention both from home, schools and church. A teenager is a young person whose age falls within the range from 13 to 19. They are called teenagers because their age number ends with "teen" (Ausubel 2002: 12). This study sought to investigate whether the impact of caring for teenagers by the Methodist Church of Southern Africa and had to achieved the intended mission statement of MCSA which is “A Methodist called to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ healing and transformation” in the New Brighton and KwaZakhele areas that formed Port Elizabeth North Circuit. The study would achieve its goal by looking at the needs of a teenager such as caring which includes love, food, medication, accommodation and educational expenses required in a month. The teenage stage is a transitional stage of physical and psychological human development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood. The teenage years, though it’s physical, psychological and cultural expressions may begin earlier and end later (Heine, 2016: 14). This is a critical stage for a child because sometimes children change their behaviour during this period, others manage to go through this stage and behave well but others struggle and falling into substance abuse and teenage pregnancy. 2 But this stage followed a puberty stage. Gouws and Kruger (2014: 3) stresses that puberty is a period of several years in which rapid physical growth and psychological changes occur, culminating in sexual maturity. The average onset of puberty is at 10 or 11 for girls and age 11 or 12 for boys. Gouws and Kruger (2014: 3) argued that every person's individual timetable for puberty is influenced primarily by inheritance, although environmental factors, such as diet and exercise, also apply some influences. Gouws and Kruger (2014: 3) further says during puberty body growth accelerates, the reproductive organs become functional, sexual maturity is attained and secondary sexual characteristics appear. Therefore, teenagers could fall into early sex activity that leads to teenage pregnancy. Brewster (2011:183–185) stresses the consideration to the issue of the Bible as a book that contains signs in his interpretation of the theological significance of children. Moreover, the fundamental theological rationale for the notion of children is that Jesus presented child as a sign of the kingdom of God (White 2011:55). Bunge (2011: 24) argues that particular perspectives on children from the Bible should be held in creative tension. Those perspectives are comprising the notions that children are gifts of God, sources of joy, sinful creatures and moral agents, developing beings in need of instruction and guidance, are fully human and made in the likeness and image of God, they are models of faith and sources of revelation, lastly they are in need of justice. Choudhury, Blakemore & Charman (2006: 1) stated that adolescence is the transitional period between late childhood and the beginning of adulthood, and marks the beginning of the reproductive lifespan in humans. Eastman (2010: 2) argued that this phase of human development is “defined by cultural practices and 3 biological occurrences - a period by which behavioural abilities and expectations change. All societies and cultures devise means of marking and handling the realities of human existence which is Birth, Death and Procreation”. The onset of puberty is one such. The transition from dependency as children to the maturity of full adulthood is a journey common to humankind.
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- Date Issued: 2020
- Authors: Jibiliza, Xolisa Terrance
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: Church work with teenagers Teenagers -- Pastoral counseling of Teenage pregnancy
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD (Theology)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/17884 , vital:41973
- Description: The research study sought to acknowledge that there was a need of caring for teenagers by the Methodist Church of Southern Africa as majority of them responds to their adolescent stage with bad behaviour. This was a critical stage that challenged teenagers and required much more attention both from home, schools and church. A teenager is a young person whose age falls within the range from 13 to 19. They are called teenagers because their age number ends with "teen" (Ausubel 2002: 12). This study sought to investigate whether the impact of caring for teenagers by the Methodist Church of Southern Africa and had to achieved the intended mission statement of MCSA which is “A Methodist called to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ healing and transformation” in the New Brighton and KwaZakhele areas that formed Port Elizabeth North Circuit. The study would achieve its goal by looking at the needs of a teenager such as caring which includes love, food, medication, accommodation and educational expenses required in a month. The teenage stage is a transitional stage of physical and psychological human development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood. The teenage years, though it’s physical, psychological and cultural expressions may begin earlier and end later (Heine, 2016: 14). This is a critical stage for a child because sometimes children change their behaviour during this period, others manage to go through this stage and behave well but others struggle and falling into substance abuse and teenage pregnancy. 2 But this stage followed a puberty stage. Gouws and Kruger (2014: 3) stresses that puberty is a period of several years in which rapid physical growth and psychological changes occur, culminating in sexual maturity. The average onset of puberty is at 10 or 11 for girls and age 11 or 12 for boys. Gouws and Kruger (2014: 3) argued that every person's individual timetable for puberty is influenced primarily by inheritance, although environmental factors, such as diet and exercise, also apply some influences. Gouws and Kruger (2014: 3) further says during puberty body growth accelerates, the reproductive organs become functional, sexual maturity is attained and secondary sexual characteristics appear. Therefore, teenagers could fall into early sex activity that leads to teenage pregnancy. Brewster (2011:183–185) stresses the consideration to the issue of the Bible as a book that contains signs in his interpretation of the theological significance of children. Moreover, the fundamental theological rationale for the notion of children is that Jesus presented child as a sign of the kingdom of God (White 2011:55). Bunge (2011: 24) argues that particular perspectives on children from the Bible should be held in creative tension. Those perspectives are comprising the notions that children are gifts of God, sources of joy, sinful creatures and moral agents, developing beings in need of instruction and guidance, are fully human and made in the likeness and image of God, they are models of faith and sources of revelation, lastly they are in need of justice. Choudhury, Blakemore & Charman (2006: 1) stated that adolescence is the transitional period between late childhood and the beginning of adulthood, and marks the beginning of the reproductive lifespan in humans. Eastman (2010: 2) argued that this phase of human development is “defined by cultural practices and 3 biological occurrences - a period by which behavioural abilities and expectations change. All societies and cultures devise means of marking and handling the realities of human existence which is Birth, Death and Procreation”. The onset of puberty is one such. The transition from dependency as children to the maturity of full adulthood is a journey common to humankind.
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- Date Issued: 2020
An appraisal of the Methodist church’s role in poverty alleviation in the Alice region
- Authors: Jibiliza, Xolisa Terrance
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: Economic assistance, Domestic , Rural poor -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M Th
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/1451 , vital:27187
- Description: “All religions emphasize the need to support charity, welfare and the disadvantaged. Obligatory giving is, thus, a manifestation of spirituality. This is why religious communities are capable, like no other sector of society, of mobilizing enormous resources for poverty alleviation and development initiative” (Maharaj & Chetty, 2007:82). Most African countries are faced with serious and worsening poverty (Wogaman, 1986:47), and one of greatest issues that demands our immediate attention within the church and society is poverty alleviation. Wogaman (1986:47) further argues that the increase in production has not served to bridge the great historic chasm between rich and poor. Hence, the church needs to direct its attention and its activity to poverty alleviation so that it becomes an advocate for the poor. Lawrence (2012:1) argued that we are created for fellowship with other people and also depend on God for our survival. Therefore, poverty touches all of God’s creatures and not simply those who experience it directly. Poverty prevents human beings from realizing their potential; it creates barriers of inequality between people, and bars people from experiencing the abundance of God’s creation.
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- Date Issued: 2016
- Authors: Jibiliza, Xolisa Terrance
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: Economic assistance, Domestic , Rural poor -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M Th
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/1451 , vital:27187
- Description: “All religions emphasize the need to support charity, welfare and the disadvantaged. Obligatory giving is, thus, a manifestation of spirituality. This is why religious communities are capable, like no other sector of society, of mobilizing enormous resources for poverty alleviation and development initiative” (Maharaj & Chetty, 2007:82). Most African countries are faced with serious and worsening poverty (Wogaman, 1986:47), and one of greatest issues that demands our immediate attention within the church and society is poverty alleviation. Wogaman (1986:47) further argues that the increase in production has not served to bridge the great historic chasm between rich and poor. Hence, the church needs to direct its attention and its activity to poverty alleviation so that it becomes an advocate for the poor. Lawrence (2012:1) argued that we are created for fellowship with other people and also depend on God for our survival. Therefore, poverty touches all of God’s creatures and not simply those who experience it directly. Poverty prevents human beings from realizing their potential; it creates barriers of inequality between people, and bars people from experiencing the abundance of God’s creation.
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- Date Issued: 2016
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