"Make Poverty Personal" Nominated For Award
Some very encouraging and personally rewarding news today as the short list for the 2006 Australian Christian Book of the Year was announced by SPCK (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge). Among the eight authors short listed was UNOH's director and founder, Ash Barker. Ash's book, Make Poverty Personal: the Bible's Call to End Oppression, was his and UNOH Publications' first nomination for this award, especially exciting given my involvement with UNOH Publications.Ash in speaking to The Australian Christian said:
"This nomination is a big win for the UNOH Publications team as we seek to inspire, invite and inform more radical responses to Jesus among the poor... I’m especially grateful to neighbours in our slum here in Klong Toey and in poor neighbourhoods in Melbourne where other UNOH workers serve. Much of the biblical material and insights in the book engage with these friends and their situations. I hope that some-how this nomination can help recognise their plight
and mobilse more Christians to serve the urban poor, who will be over a quarter of the world’s population by 2020.”
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