This summer we’re focusing on compassionate outreach. For the first six weeks (beginning June 5th, 2016) we’ll be discussing When Helping Hurts, an important book for any Christian concerned with compassionate outreach. We’re really excited about this material, and encourage you to invite your whole family and lots of others to participate.
Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it. When Helping Hurts shows how some alleviation efforts, failing to consider the complexities of poverty, have actually (and unintentionally) done more harm than good. But it looks ahead. It encourages us to see the dignity in everyone, to empower the materially poor, and to know that we are all uniquely needy—and that God in the gospel is reconciling all things to himself.
The videos can be watched on The Chalmers Center media page (The Small Group Experience Videos), or on Youtube:
Helping Without Hurting: The Small Group Experience Week 1
Helping Without Hurting: The Small Group Experience Week 2
Helping Without Hurting: The Small Group Experience Week 3
Helping Without Hurting: The Small Group Experience Week 4
Helping Without Hurting: The Small Group Experience Week 5
Helping Without Hurting: The Small Group Experience Week 6
The study guide we’re using is also available on Amazon if you want to order it directly: Helping Without Hurting: the Small Group Experience.
The first week we talked about this post, the comparative cost of living in Nepal and Borth America: The Poor’s Purchasing Power
We’ll add more links to interesting information as the course goes on.
