{"id":20304,"date":"2018-10-17T13:20:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T18:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/department_of_service_to_palestinian_refugees\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T12:34:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T17:34:19","slug":"department_of_service_to_palestinian_refugees","status":"publish","type":"partner","link":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/department_of_service_to_palestinian_refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Middle East Council of Churches<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">At its first General Assembly in Nicosia, Cyprus (May, 1974), the Middle East Council of Churches was formed at the conclusion of a series of successful discussions between the Orthodox churches in the Middle East (both Eastern and Oriental) and the Protestant and Episcopal members of the Near East Council of Churches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MECC is unique among regional ecumenical councils. It represents the advancement of ecumenism in a way not found anywhere else. At the Fifth General Assembly of 1990, the seven Catholic churches of the Middle East joined the council as its fourth family. This symbolically completed the square of wholeness and made the council a fully inclusive body. The Middle East Council of Churches is a fellowship of 27 member churches gathered in four families\u2013Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, Evangelical, and Catholic. Spanning the Middle East and North Africa from Algeria to Iran, 12 to 15 million Christians are thus represented in this all-inclusive Council. The Council has several units and programs, including the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dspr-me.org\/\">Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees<\/a><\/strong>, and the Inter-Church Network for Development &amp; Relief in Lebanon (ICNDR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The services of the DSPR aim to enable people to organize their lives better so that they can live with dignity despite the various difficulties and constraints that seek to inhibit them from \u201cnormal\u201d living. Over 70,000 Palestinians benefit from the health clinics in DSPR areas of operation, particularly in Gaza and Jordan. DSPR also provides vocational training in carpentry, metal and aluminum works, secretarial studies, English, dressmaking, hairdressing, and knitting. A long-time focus of DSPR has been the construction of cisterns in the many communities with few or no dependable water sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specific objectives include support for the programming of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>NECCCRW Gaza, including health, education, employment opportunities, vocational training, community development, and individual rehabilitation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ICC West Bank, including small-scale physical infrastructure, water cisterns, youth and children\u2019s activities, and women\u2019s development<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ICCI Nazareth, including village development, employment opportunities, community development and organization, rural village development, civil society development, women\u2019s development, assistance to abducted women, youth leadership, and vocational training<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NECCRW Jordan, including health education, educational opportunities, community rehabilitation, child welfare, and community development<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>JCC Lebanon, including women\u2019s vocational training, computer courses, and agricultural training.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mecc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><\/strong><strong>Middle East Council of Churches website<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","region":[20025,20023,20024,20022],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees - Global Ministries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/department_of_service_to_palestinian_refugees\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees - Global Ministries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Middle East Council of Churches At its first General Assembly in Nicosia, Cyprus (May, 1974), the Middle East Council of Churches was formed at the conclusion of a series of successful discussions between the Orthodox churches in the Middle East &hellip; Read more\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/department_of_service_to_palestinian_refugees\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Global Ministries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-12T17:34:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/department_of_service_to_palestinian_refugees\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/department_of_service_to_palestinian_refugees\/\",\"name\":\"Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees - Global Ministries\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-10-17T18:20:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-12T17:34:19+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/department_of_service_to_palestinian_refugees\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/department_of_service_to_palestinian_refugees\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partner\/department_of_service_to_palestinian_refugees\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Partners\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/partners\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/\",\"name\":\"Global Ministries\",\"description\":\"Global Ministries is a common missional witness of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ. 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