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Called to Serve: Christian Principles for Emergency Management: Serving Communities Before, During, and After Disaster - Softcover

Grimsley, Robert A.

 
9798189817502: Called to Serve: Christian Principles for Emergency Management: Serving Communities Before, During, and After Disaster

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Christian Principles for Emergency Management

Disaster does not wait for readiness, and neither does the call to serve. Called to Serve: Christian Principles for Emergency Management is the first book in the Called to Serve series and it exists at the intersection of two vocations often treated as separate — the practice of emergency management and the practice of Christian faith — and asks what happens when they are allowed to inform each other honestly.

Each chapter takes on the operational realities of the field — incident command, response coordination, recovery operations, community engagement — and holds them alongside the deep theological vocabulary of service: hesed (steadfast covenant love), splagchnizomai (visceral, gut-level compassion), and incarnational ministry that shows up in the wreckage rather than observing from a distance. The series does not romanticize either discipline. It engages the real tensions EM professionals face — the pull between equal treatment and just treatment, the temptation toward spiritual bypassing in crisis, the question of whether command structures like ICS can coexist with servant leadership — and works through them rather than around them.

Written for EM practitioners, chaplains, disaster ministry leaders, VOAD and faith-based response organizations, and the general reader who wants to understand disaster response through a Christian lens, Called to Serve: Christian Principles for Emergency Management offers a Whole Community approach grounded in Scripture and tested against the realities of ICS, NIMS, and ESF coordination — before, during, and after disaster strikes.

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