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"When Helping Hurts" is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic
on the subject of poverty alleviation and has sold over 225,000
copies. Now, this stand-alone resource applies the principles of
"helping without hurting" specifically to short term missions.
"Helping Without Hurting: Short Term Missions""Leader's Guide" will
be aimed at the preparation and debriefing of short-term
missionaries. Accompanying "Helping Without Hurting: Short Term
Missions Participants' Guide," this will be an ideal resource for
Church leaders, missions pastors, and youth pastors who make
short-term missions planning decisions and desire to prevent
inadvertent harm as they enter materially poor communities.
This leader's guide provides explanations of how to design STMs
well in light of the principles of "When Helping Hurts," practical
examples from short-term trips to illustrate the key principles,
suggested resources, and the content of the participant's guide
with annotation and teaching notes to guide leaders as they
facilitate sessions with participants.
With more than 225,000 copies sold, "When Helping Hurts" is a
paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty
alleviation and ministry to those in need. Emphasizing the poverty
of both heart and society, this book exposes the need that every
person has and how it can be filled. The reader is brought to
understand that poverty is much more than simply a lack of
financial or material resources and that it takes much more than
donations and handouts to solve the problem of poverty.
While this book exposes past and current development efforts
that churches have engaged in which unintentionally undermine the
people they're trying to help, its central point is to provide
proven strategies that challenge Christians to help the poor
empower themselves. Focusing on both North American and Majority
World contexts, "When Helping Hurts" catalyzes the idea that
sustainable change for people living in poverty comes not from the
outside-in, but from the inside-out.
September 1914, and the whole of Europe was at war following the
assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his beloved wife
Sophie by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28th June 1914. In France
and Belgium, the British Expeditionary Force were struggling to
hold back the German hoards as their casualties began to mount.
Back in Britain the call went out for volunteers to join the `Pals'
battalions which were springing up in the northern towns of
England, and one of the first to volunteer was young Jack Smallshaw
of Accrington. On 15th September 1914, Jack became an `Accrington
Pal,' a member of a battalion of men who are remembered more than
any other of the Pals battalions because of the appalling tragedy
which befell them on the killing fields of the Somme. On that
fateful day on 1st July 1916, the battalion attacked the fortified
village of Serre and were virtually wiped out on the slopes in
front of the village. Jack was one of the very few who survived. He
continued to serve on the front throughout the remainder of 1916
and into 1917, where he took part in the battle at Oppy wood in May
of that year. Shortly afterwards he was struck down by a second
bout of trench fever and spent the rest of the year recovering in
England. By February 1918 he was back in France serving on the
front line, but Jack was never the same man. He was in the thick of
the action again in March when the Germans launched their spring
offensive against the allied lines. He weathered that too, and
stuck it out to the bitter end. This then, is the story of a quite
remarkable survivor of the `war to end all wars', whose diaries
have lain unpublished, in the possession of his family, since 1919.
"When Helping Hurts" is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic
on the subject of poverty alleviation and has sold over 225,000
copies. Now, this stand-alone resource applies the principles of
"helping without hurting" specifically to short term missions.
"Helping Without Hurting"" Short Term Missions" is aimed at the
preparation and debriefing of short-term missionaries. It will take
the fully-formed ideas of "When Helping Hurts" and apply them to
short-term missions with theory, application, examples, and reader
interaction through questions and journaling. It will be an ideal
resource for churches, Christian colleges, missions agencies, and
missionaries to use in preparing people to serve in a short term
capacity without hurting the poor they are trying to serve.
With eight units, six of which are built around free, online
video content, """Helping Without Hurting"" Short Term Missions
Participants Guide" is the ideal short-term missions team resource
for training, discussion, application in the field, and reflection
on the experience after returning.
What would it take to make society better? For the majority,
conditions are getting worse and this will continue unless strong
action is taken. This book offers a wide range of expert
contributors outlining what might help to make better societies and
which mechanisms, interventions and evidence are needed when we
think about a better society. The book looks at what is needed to
prevent the proliferation of harm and the gradual collapse of civil
society. It argues that social scientists need to cast aside their
commitment to the established order and its ideological support
systems, look ahead at the likely outcomes of various interventions
and move to the forefront of informed political debate. Providing
practical steps and policy programmes, this is ideal for academics
and students across a wide range of social science fields and those
interested in social inequality.
On the outskirts of west Belfast in Northern Ireland, and in the
shadow of the Black Mountain, is situated the predominantly
Catholic community of Andersonstown. Between November 1971 and
March 1972 this small area of land, which is just two miles long by
one mile deep, became the scene of many gun-battles between the men
of 9(Plassey) Battery, Royal Artillery and 1st Battalion Belfast
Brigade, Irish Republican Army. This book is a record of the
violent clashes which took place on an almost daily basis on
housing estates which looked no different than those found on
mainland Britain. After the events of'Bloody Sunday' in Londonderry
on the 30 January 1972 in which thirteen civilians were shot dead,
the attacks against the soldiers intensified to an unprecedented
scale. The whole community of Andersonstown appeared to rise up
against the small band of men from 9 Battery. There are truly
terrifying accounts from twenty of the men who took part in the
struggle to maintain the peace on the streets of Andersonstown.
They describe how it felt to face the rioters, and how it felt to
be under attack from the Provo gunmen. Contemporary newspaper
reports have been used to illustrate the viewpoints of both sides
involved in the conflict. The book contains many recently
discovered photographs of the arms and explosives found by the
battery in their searches. None of these images have ever been
published before. There are also reproduced statements issued by
the Provisional IRA which originally appeared in the'Volunteer'
news sheet issued around the estates, and these serve to
corroborate some of the astonishing tales told by the soldiers.
This is the only book about the Troubles in Northern Ireland which
covers just one single tour of duty as seen through the eyes of the
men who were there. By the end of the tour in March 1972 the IRA in
Andersonstown had been almost completely destroyed as a fighting
force. The 110-strong unit of men of 9 Battery were given a task to
do, to crack The Toughest Nut- and they gave it their all.
What would it take to make society better? For the majority,
conditions are getting worse and this will continue unless strong
action is taken. This book offers a wide range of expert
contributors outlining what might help to make better societies and
which mechanisms, interventions and evidence are needed when we
think about a better society. The book looks at what is needed to
prevent the proliferation of harm and the gradual collapse of civil
society. It argues that social scientists need to cast aside their
commitment to the established order and its ideological support
systems, look ahead at the likely outcomes of various interventions
and move to the forefront of informed political debate. Providing
practical steps and policy programmes, this is ideal for academics
and students across a wide range of social science fields and those
interested in social inequality.
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