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Christian Psychology as a Challenge

B Psych students from IITC also participated in South Africa and Namibia
community projects and the concept of systems Community project report
theory indicate that the participation in one
community (a sub-system) from one student (a Gloria Shileka, one of our current 4th final year
subsystem of the ICP) influenced all other 4th B Psych student from Namibia, engaged in and
year B Psych students (a subsystem, consisting completed a community project for pregnant
of 4th year B Psych students) as all the projects adolescents in Windhoek (the capital city of
were discussed and collective prayers were offe- Namibia).
red for all the communities involved. The same
principle is valid for interlinks formed between
the ICP students and the German students.
Thus, the South African communities and Ger-
man communities were linked by means of the
involvement of ICP and IITC students in com-
munity projects.
Based on Biblically based systemic perspective
it implies interconnection between the ICP and
all the communities represented by the Com- Gloria report as follows on the project:
munity Psychology students and their systems
(visible realm). It further implies an intercon- 1. Abstract
nection with the invisible realm (God, Jesus, Background. The non-profit organisation, Beau-
Holy Spirit, angels, fallen angels, satan) and a tiful Kidz started a new, “Young and Pregnant”. It
method to bring the Kingdom of God to com- is an 8-week program for pregnant adolescents
munities across the world. and young adults age 15-25 that is pregnant for
the first time. The program consisted of 9 girls
Community links between South Africa and and was conducted at the Beautiful Kidz centre
Germany (visible realm) as well as the invisible with four program coordinators from June 15
realm illustrated in the diagram. to August 5. The primary objective of the pro-

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