URBAN MIDTERM

Demographics

statistical data relating to the population and particular groups within it

Why do demographics matter

to gain an understanding of a community, where they are now, and where they are headed

predict social, cultural, and economic trends

Three things regarding population changes

Fertility, mortality, migration

All things to all people

Missionaries need to understand the cultures, customs, struggles, experiences, and trauma with the lost

Gentrification

process whereby the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in

Mental and emotional trauma

theme throughout the urban homeless and is a response to physical trauma the homeless have endured

Sexual trauma

many of the homeless have endured

pronounced precursor to prostitution and sexual victimization of women living in homelessness

Poverty

Argument for the only way to eliminate homelessness is to eliminate:

Fundraising

necessity in urban missions environments

Monthly support

go to funding for most missionaries in the majority of modern movements