I remember about 8 years ago sitting in a Chipotle restaurant with a group of friends after church. We were talking, when a gentleman walked in and asked for money. He said something about his car being broken down on [...]
There was a pastor that had worked at a small rural church for many years. During his time there, he had requested from the congregation numerous times the possibility of moving the piano from one side of the platform to [...]
We’ve made it to part four of the book. I, for one, am completely thrilled that Brian Fikkert and Steve Corbett added this section. If you only have the first edition then it’s worth getting the second edition to get [...]
Chapter 8 of When Helping Hurts begins to look at how we can effectively engage with people who are experiencing poverty in North America. Fikkert points out: For the first time in history, more poor people live in the suburbs [...]
In the book The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg, tells the story of Travis Leach. The summarised version is that Travis had a challenging upbringing. He first saw his father overdose when he was nine. He grew up in a [...]
Though poverty is often seen through the eyes of the homeless or unemployed there are many hard working people in our nation struggling to stay afloat. They are called the “working poor.” The working poor can be defined as: People [...]
Short-term missions (STM) trips. What does that phrase bring to your mind? For most that phrase brings back memories of sleeping under mosquito nets, eating unknown foods and being pricked with immunizations for diseases that sound very scary. (gamma goblin [...]
I have never worked in corporate America but from the little I know it seems to operate according to results. If the numbers are rising, the stocks are growing, the network is expanding and the profits are increasing then all [...]
In the introduction to When Helping Hurts, Brian Fikkert tells a story about a trip he took to Africa and that, while there, he gave $8 to a woman who urgently needed medical help. Afterward, he regretted his donation. He [...]
Continuing in our study of “When Helping Hurts” – Chapter 4 There is no doubt you have come across the word “holistic” sometime in your past. It has become a popular buzzword used to describe an approach that sees the [...]
