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MCC videos
In our Feb. 4, 2000 issue we presented some of the many video resources available for loan from Mennonite Central Committee. Here are some more:
Invisible Persuaders: The Battle for Your Mind
22 min
(CC) Produced by The Learning Seed, 1994. Available from MCC Akron, MCC British Columbia.
Shows how advertisers use packaging, labeling and repetition to shape public opinion about merchandise. Grades 5 and up.
Pathways to Understanding: Ministry and Mental Illness
56 min
Resource manual available. Produced by Pathways to Promise, 1995. Available from MCC Manitoba.
Designed to help church leaders understand the issues around mental illness and how churches can best respond to it.
Struggle to Learn
55 min
Produced by National Film Board of Canada, 1998. Available from MCC Manitoba.
Follows three students with developmental disabilities as they try to fit into life at Montreal’s Summit School.
Surprising Grace: People, Disabilities, Churches
15 min
Leader’s guide included. Produced by William W. Gee Media Services and the Presbyterian Church, 1998. Available from MCC Manitoba.
Provides examples of how people with disabilities can serve in the church.
What Should be the Christian Perspective?
27 min
Produced by Brydon Productions Inc., 1999. Available from MCC Manitoba.
Features Bill MacPhee, publisher of Schizophrenia Digest, talking about what life with schizophrenia is like, and how churches can support people suffering from mental illness.
Wings Like a Dove: Healing for the Abused Christian Woman
23 min
Includes study guide. Produced by Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence, 1997. Available from MCC Akron, MCC Ontario.
Through the voices of victims, clergy and helping professionals, this video offers hope and healing to abused women and information for religious and community groups.
Banking on Life and Debt
30 min
Includes study guide. Produced by Maryknoll World Productions, 1995. Available from MCC Akron, MCC Great Lakes, MCC Manitoba, MCC Alberta.
This video visits Ghana, Brazil and the Philippines where the World Bank has caused diminished living conditions through export policies, cuts in health and education and forced farmland sales.
The Showpeace Series
Two 7-min videos
Study guides included. Produced by National Film Board of Canada, 1997. Available from MCC Akron, MCC Ontario, MCC Manitoba.
Dinner for Two and When the Dust Settles are animated shorts designed to give everyone from children to senior executives insights into how to deal creatively with conflict.
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