- Collection:
- Interdenominational Theological Center Theses & Dissertations Collection
- Title:
- Organizing a cooperative venture in Ebenezer A.M.E. Church, in Greensboro, Georgia, food co-op, a conceptual model, 1982
- Creator:
- Evans, Robert Lee
- Date of Original:
- 1982-01-01
- Subject:
- Dissertations, Academic
Degrees, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Black people in this country in general and the members of Ebenezer AME Church in particular are facing a dilemma. They are facing the problem of having their government assistance reduced or cutout entirely. These cuts in government assistance threaten their very survival especially the senior members of the church. Some of them are too old or physically disable to supplement their income with part-time employment. Therefore, they will have to stretch their income and make every penny count. The thrust of this project is to propose a way that the Black Church in general and the AME Church in parti-cular can use a food co-op to help people help themselves. Whereas the method of organizing a food co-op is not carved in stone, the cooperative principles of mutual aid and cooperation have always been eternal in God's universe, especially for created beings. This paper will start with a theological undergirding of the cooperative principles used by the first church as recorded in the Book of Acts of the Apostles. Also it will examine the historical events that guided Richard Allen when he founded the AME Church based on cooperative principles. A conceptual model of a food co-op will be developed based on cooperative principles. The cooperative principle will be applied to the organizing process of a food co-op in Ebenezer AME Church. A pre-test and post test model was used to assess the validity of the training process and this data, was applied to the organizing process.
Date of award: 1982-01-01
Degree type: dissertation
Degree name: Doctor of Ministry (DMin)
Granting institution: Interdenominational Theological Center - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/itc.td:1982_evans_robert_l
- Holding Institution:
- Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Rights:
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