Cooperative Credit: How Community Development Credit Unions are Meeting the Need for Affordable, Short Term Credit

This report summarizes an 18-month evaluation of the affordable payday loan alternative products offered by six community development credit unions. In addition to describing loan activity, the report identifies the financial and operational factors that account for the program's success

Concluding Address: Culture and Worship, Once More

(Excerpt) The organizing principle I needed to pull together the events of this week became clear quite early in the institute. It became clear because of the great wisdom of the people who attended my discussion session after the opening keynote. They raised some critical issues and pulled many things into the dialectical tensions of which, for lack of time, I had been able to explicate only one side. In response, I found myself again and again saying, This gets us back to the necessity for community, doesn\u27t it? All of the worship issues, especially the wars, arise because our churches are not genuine communities

Culture: Around, Against, In the Church\u27s Worship

(Excerpt) Two weeks ago a Canadian Broadcasting producer in Montreal telephoned me. She had heard of my book, Reaching Out without Dumbing Down, from a few pastors and wanted to know the main points of my approach, because she was preparing a program for Easter to focus on what congregations could do to attract Canadians to worship

Asking New and Old Questions As We Remember the Future

(Excerpt) Let me explain my title, Asking New and Old Questions as We Remember the Future. Because my training is in biblical ethics, my approach to various worship concerns centers on asking questions (the proper work of ethics) about how our worship practices form us to be God\u27s people. If we are interested at this conference in what our eschatological tradition has to say to issues of worship, then we will discover the more new questions we ask, the more they will drive us back to the old ones. Indeed, there is nothing new under the sun. Always, throughout human history, we have been strung between the times, between who we have been formed to be by our past and what we might become, especially if we consciously and deliberately orient our present toward the future. Moreover, since the resurrection, which provides the ultimate definition of our Christian faith and life, God\u27s people have always lived-whether we realize it or not -in the midst of the tension of already, but not yet

Building Community Assets: A Guide to Credit Union Partnerships

The purpose of this guide is to help community organizations enable their members to join a mainstream credit union and begin building modest assets. Many credit unions offer financial products and services tailored to the needs of low-income people, but mainstream credit unions have not historically reached this population. Partnering with community organizations expands a credit union's membership while giving community organizations the tools to help their members build assets

A Lifetime of Assets - Asset Preservation: Trends and Interventions in Asset Stripping Services and

This paper focuses the increase in high cost consumer and home mortgage debt as a dangerous threat to asset preservation and examines the Consumer Rescue Fund, innovative program administered by the National CommunityReinvestment Coalition (NCRC) that employs several strategies that enable consumers to preserve home ownership in the face of foreclosure by high cost lenders

The Theoretical, Conceptual and Empirical Impact of the Service Economy: A Critical Review

services, classification schedules, output measurement, productivity, knowledge and innovation, global economy

Building Community Assets: Growing Lower-Income Credit Union Membership through Community and Credit Union Partnerships

This report details the partnership process and lessons learned from a two-year technical assistance program designed to help community organizations partner with mainstream credit unions with the goal of enrolling new lower-income members or expanding an existing partnership. The case studies describing these partnerships identify four strategic areas through which partnerships can be strengthened and the common barriers to developing a successful partnership can be overcome

SUBTITLING FILM ANIMASI "SADAQA RASOOL ALLAH AL-IMAM BUKHARI EPSIODE-6-9" DARI BAHASA ARAB KE BAHASA INDONESIA

This report discusses the process of translating film subtitles from Arabic to Indonesian. Subtitle translation has an important role in supporting the audience's understanding of film content originating from various cultures and languages. The main focus of this research is to identify the challenges and strategies that arise in dealing with linguistic, cultural and contextual differences between Arabic and Indonesian. This report presents several films that have been translated. The report results show that there are various obstacles such as differences in vocabulary, sentence structure, and cultural nuances that require a creative approach in translation. The strategy used involves choosing the right words, setting subtitle timings, and adjusting the context so that the film's message can be maintained and conveyed. It is hoped that this report can contribute to further understanding of the dynamics of translating film subtitles from Arabic to Indonesian. The implications of the results of this research can help translators and researchers in improving the quality of subtitle translations and expanding appreciation of various cultures through the medium of film