Accompanier

To meet this important social responsibility, those from Generation X (born between 1965 and 1980) and from the Baby Boomer generation (born between 1946 and 1965) must try their best to acquire the qualities of a good "accompanier" (another terminology for mentor).

The river, the Southeast Asian nation's longest, running from north to south, "is an unfailing accompanier" in the livelihoods of the people of Myanmar, which is "a nation of agriculture, where 80 percent of the people live by farming," Bo said in a Jan.

He explained: "I spent three months there as an ecumenical accompanier in the Nablus area of the West Bank.

Jayakiran Sebastian attempts to view Christ as a guide who stands aside, as an accompanier.

Linda was on the ecumenical accompanier programme in Palestine and Israel (Eappi), which was established by the World Council of Churches in response to a plea from the churches in Jerusalem for an international presence to witness what was happening to the Palestinians.

When I learned that Pastor Amy Kienzle would spend from February to May 2011 as an Ecumenical Accompanier in the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel, a ministry of the World Council of Churches, I immediately sought to secure her reflections and perspective for these Preaching Helps.

'A demonstration' of the client's predicament would be inappropriate, for the business of therapists is not to attack the problem with the verve of analytical philosophers, but rather to be a sympathetic accompanier and an aid to someone in distress.

The role of each Ecumenical Accompanier is to be a witness to human rights violations as outlined in the UN Declaration of Human Rights and the fourth Article of the Geneva Convention.

Lunga Lungile Magqwagqwa ka Siboto, bishop of the Ethiopian Episcopal Church from South Africa, reflected on his experience as ecumenical accompanier in Israel and Palestine: "A cloud of witnesses."

Trevor Sibande, a South African accompanier in Palestine.

I've recently spent three months living and working as an ecumenical accompanier in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.