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It was almost noon on a Sunday. I arrived early at the chapel of the Near East School of Theology in the busy district of Hamra in downtown Beirut. It was a little past the time for starting the service, but I wasn’t particularly concerned as congregations of migrant domestic workers (MDWs) seldom start on time. Logistics of travel and demands of work never allow MDWs the luxury of planned lives. After a few minutes, Aina, pastor of the congregation, rushed in, adjusting her clothes and combing her hair, which was still wet. One of her jobs as a “maid” at a nearby Baptist Church on a Sunday was washing the cups and sweeping and cleaning the kitchen after the morning fellowship hour. She quickly took a shower, changed her clothes, and rushed into the Near East School of Theology chapel to lead her own congregation of MDWs in worship.
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Sally Nelson, “Is Lebanon’s Confessional System Sustainable?,” Journal of Political and International Studies 9 (Summer 2013); Nelson contends that “Lebanon is a Mosaic of minorities,” a legacy of Turkish “Millet” system, who ruled Lebanon for more than two hundred years before the French came on the scene, p. 304; Kamal Salibi, A House of Many Mansions: A History of Lebanon Reconsidered (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).
Walbert Bhulmann in his ground-breaking work, The Coming of the Third Church: An Analysis of the Present and Future of the Church (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1977); Bhulmann, Courage Church (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1978), 101–12. More recently, Protestant historian Philip Jenkins, The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
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Chetti, D. (2016). Vulnerable and Missional. In: Snyder, S., Ralston, J., Brazal, A.M. (eds) Church in an Age of Global Migration. Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137518125_14
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