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Spiritual Capital
How the Church Is Uniquely Equipped to Break the Poverty Cycle
Tags: business as mission, poverty
Excerpts from God Is at Work (primarily) and The Integrated Life
Please don’t send us money; it only creates division. But do send us business people who can create jobs for us, that we can build...
Microfinance
A Look at the Technique as an Effective Strategy for Poverty Alleviation
Tags: business, business as mission, india, poverty
Hope in the slums
In the slums of several cities in Western India, the financially poor are gathering to save. In groups of 10 to 12, they come together to receive business training, contribute...
A Hand Up Not a Handout
Why Enterprise and Business Are Changing Our Approach to Poverty Alleviation
Tags: poverty
In the decade following the collapse of communism, churches operating in post-Soviet Ukraine could once again practice their faith openly and freely. Yet they faced great need: With the economy in...
Poverty, Getting to the Heart of the Matter
Tags: poverty
We’ve all seen them, awful pictures of little children with emaciated bodies, video scenes of long lines of desperate parents seeking help for the children they love at some overrun clinic in some...
Overcoming Poverty
Does the Church Have the Answer?
Tags: children, dependency, poverty
We’ve all seen them, awful pictures of little children with emaciated bodies, video scenes of long lines of desperate parents seeking help for the children they love at some overrun clinic in some...
Radical
Taking Back Your Faith From The American Dream "The Great Why of God"
This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
“It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the...
Going Radically
Giving of Ourselves, Not Just Our Resources
Tags: giving, poverty, radical
In Radical, David Platt repeats Bonhoeffer’s reminder that the first call every Christian experiences is “the call to abandon the attachments of this world” (page 14). This is an important...
Business
Poverty's Long-Term Solution
Tags: business as mission, poverty
What is poverty? Let’s take a look at some statistics: About 50% of the world’s population lives on less than the equivalent of $2 a day. That represents a staggering number of over 2.8 billion...