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    When Helping Hurts: The Small Group Experience: An Online Video-Based Study on Alleviating Poverty
    When Helping Hurts: The Small Group Experience: An Online Video-Based Study on Alleviating Poverty
    When Helping Hurts: The Small Group Experience: An Online Video-Based Study on Alleviating Poverty
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    When Helping Hurts: The Small Group Experience: An Online Video-Based Study on Alleviating Poverty

    By Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert

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    Good intentions are not enough.

    When Helping Hurts offers a different framework for thinking about poverty and its alleviation. Rather than simply defining it as a lack of material things, the book addresses the roots of the issue: broken relationships with God, self, others, and the rest of creation. Online videos included.

    Join together as a class or small group to explore how to help the poor without hurting them.

    The Small Group Experience, an ideal training resource for small groups, Sunday school classes, and parachurch and nonprofit ministries, utilizes free online video lessons to unpack the basic principles of poverty alleviation in an accessible way. Filmed in the U.S. and abroad, each of the six lessons includes discussion questions, application exercises, and materials for further learning. Join the many ministries and churches that are already implementing these ideas, transforming their culture of poverty alleviation, and moving toward helping the poor without hurting them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateJan 24, 2014
    ISBN9780802490247
    When Helping Hurts: The Small Group Experience: An Online Video-Based Study on Alleviating Poverty
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    Steve Corbett

    STEVE CORBETT is the Community Development Specialist for the Chalmers Center for Economic Development and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and Community Development at Covenant College. Previously, Steve worked for Food for the Hungry International as the Regional Director for Central And South America and as Director of Staff Training. Steve has a B.A. from covenant College and a M.Ed. in Adult Education from the University of Georgia.

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      When Helping Hurts - Steve Corbett

      Praise for When Helping Hurts: Small Group Experience

      For over fifteen years I’ve worked alongside other Christians in efforts to effectively address poverty at home and abroad. I can honestly report that When Helping Hurts is the single best book I’ve seen on this topic….

      — Amy L. Sherman, PhD, Senior Fellow and Director, Sagamore Institute Center on Faith in Communities; author of Restorers of Hope

      What an opportunity evangelicals have to make a difference in our world through the church as we move deeper into the third millennium! Corbett and Fikkert build on the growing momentum of holistic witness that’s sweeping our country and globe…. When Helping Hurts will help the hurting—and us as well.

      — Dr. Ronald J. Sider, President, Evangelicals for Social Action; Professor of Theology, Holistic Ministry, and Public Policy, Palmer Theological Seminary; author of Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger

      Corbett and Fikkert fill some important gaps in our thinking and acting about poverty as Christians. Churches in North America will find this a helpful way to educate congregations and then motivate them to action, both globally and in their neighborhoods….

      — Bryant L. Myers, PhD, Professor of International Development, School of Intercultural Studies, Fuller Theological Seminary

      Steve and Brian have rung the bell—a clarion call to rethink how we apply the gospel to a broken world. When Helping Hurts lays out the principles and practice for transforming our good intentions into genuine, lasting change. I couldn’t recommend this book more highly.

      — Stephan J. Bauman, Senior Vice President of Programs, World Relief

      Corbett and Fikkert have done a masterful job integrating insights from Scripture, social science research, and community development practice to give readers sound, practical, and effective strategies for equipping people to have more effective ministry to the poor…. When Helping Hurts should be required reading for all church leaders, academics, and church members.

      — Dr. Steven L. Childers, President and CEO, Global Church Advancement; Associate Professor of Practical Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary-Orlando

      This is a book that every church leader should read. It takes the church beyond the common Band-Aid ministries to ministries that truly make a difference in the lives of the people they seek to serve….

      — Dr. L. Jean White, Coordinator for Church and Community Ministries, Ministry Evangelism Team, North American Mission Board

      When Helping Hurts is the most important book for the church to read as it seeks to serve the poor in ways that make a lasting difference. Corbett and Fikkert biblically define poverty, highlight why past initiatives haven’t always lived up to expectations, and provide practical ways for extending the kingdom of God both in inner cities and to the ends of the earth.

      — Peter Greer, President, HOPE International

      The Chalmers Center equips churches and ministries with gospel-driven tools designed to point the materially poor to Jesus and produce sustained transformation. Whether you are working with the poor in North America or the Majority World, the Chalmers Center has opportunities for you to be equipped for positive change.

      © 2014 by

      STEVE CORBETT AND BRIAN FIKKERT

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

      All Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com. The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

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      CONTENTS

      •  A Note to Leaders: How to Use This Series

      •  Unit 1: Reconsidering the Meaning of Poverty

      Go Deeper modules:

      The Root of Poverty

      Broken Relationships and Material Poverty

      Worldview Matters

      •  Unit 2: Seeing God at Work

      Go Deeper modules:

      Work, Worship, and Poverty Alleviation

      Christ Is Making All Things New

      Helping or Hurting?

      Escaping the Poverty Trap

      •  Unit 3: Understanding Why Good Intentions Are Not Enough

      Go Deeper modules:

      The Poison of Paternalism

      A Different Sort of Alleviation

      Ministry Assessment

      Short-Term Missions and Principles of Poverty Alleviation

      Doing Short-Term Missions without Doing Long-Term Harm

      •  Unit 4: Joining God’s Work

      Go Deeper modules:

      What Do You Think?

      The Essentials of Asset-Based, Participatory Development

      Degrees of Participation

      •  Unit 5: Fostering Change

      Go Deeper modules:

      Change: A Process, Not a Moment

      Start with the People Most Receptive to Change

      Learn the Context as You Go—Get Moving

      Look for Early, Recognizable Success

      Our Role in the Change Cycle

      •  Unit 6: Moving Forward

      Go Deeper modules:

      Healthy Partnerships: Avoiding the Donald Trump Effect

      Being a Different Type of Partner

      Directly Working at the Household Level

      •  Getting Started: Implementing an Asset-Based, Participatory Development Approach

      •  Suggested Resources

      •  Notes

      •  Acknowledgments

      •  Excerpt from When Helping Hurts

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