{"id":8644,"date":"2019-07-03T12:39:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T16:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=8644"},"modified":"2019-07-03T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T16:39:11","slug":"sweden-theological-education-for-arabic-speaking-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=8644","title":{"rendered":"SWEDEN: Theological Education for Arabic-Speaking Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Mission Network News, June 19, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Muna was born in Amman, Jordan and has moved to different areas of the world to work with refugees and immigrants. In 1989, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia and then later to London, working with different ministries, and finally, in 1993, she moved to Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Following her move to Sweden, she began supporting immigrants as they integrated into the culture of Sweden, which was different from their own. Recently, Muna also began coaching immigrants on how to find jobs to stop living on social benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Muna says when she first moved to Sweden, she began to pray that a [theological education by extension] program would begin in the country. In 2004, her prayers were answered.<\/p>\n<p>[The Program for Theological Education by Extension] courses in Sweden have been teaching believers how to share the gospel effectively for 15 years now, but there are challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of them, they didn\u2019t go to Sunday school when they were children, and many, many of them, they didn\u2019t study after high school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Muna has been acting as the sole tutor in the area as she has higher education and [the program] does not have another qualified Arabic-speaking tutor. She has led courses and met with students on a regular basis. However, with the development of online courses, some of the weight has been lifted off her shoulders, and technology is making it easier for students to study and meet via the internet.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/immigrants-are-becoming-church-leaders-in-sweden\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/immigrants-are-becoming-church-leaders-in-sweden\/\">Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb While refugees may leave the Middle East for places like Europe, many more remain. In the last two decades, refugees have almost doubled the population of Muna\u2019s hometown, Amman. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabworldmedia.org\/prayer-guides\/in-this-city-amman\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.arabworldmedia.org\/prayer-guides\/in-this-city-amman\/\">Learn more and pray for Amman<\/a> (Arab World Media).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Mission Network News, June 19, 2019 Muna was born in Amman, Jordan and has moved to different areas of the world to work with refugees and immigrants. In 1989, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia and then later to London, working with different ministries, and finally, in 1993, she moved to Sweden. Following her move &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=8644\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SWEDEN: Theological Education for Arabic-Speaking Immigrants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8645,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions\/8645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}