When Helping Hurts Is A Paradigm-forming Contemporary Classic On The Subject Of Poverty Alleviation With Over 300,000 Copies In Print. Now, This Stand-alone Resource Applies The Principles Of Helping Without Hurting Specifically To Short Term Missions. Helping Without Hurting: Short Term Missions Participant's Guide 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.

Corbett, Steve, Fikkert, Brian

Northfield Publishing

United States, United States of America

New, PT, 2014

Oct 01, 2014

OBSCURED BACK COVER

Source title: Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions: Participant's Guide

When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation with over 300,000 copies in print.This stand-alone resource applies the principles of that bookspecifically to short-term missions. Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Participants Guide aims to train and debrief team members, preparing them to do short-term missions as effectively as possible. To do this, it provides practical examples and guidelines for team members, and it creates interaction and reflection opportunities through questions and journaling. With eight units, six of which are built around free online video content, this book equips teams to avoid harming materially poor communities and to translate their experience into lasting and mutualengagement with missions and poverty alleviation. In conjunction with the separately available Leaders Guide , it is an ideal resource for churches, Christian colleges, mission agencies, and missionaries.

112 pages ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references

2023-10-08