The Bible tells us that humans are created in the image of God. We know this from Genesis1:27, which The Amplified Bible translates as, “so God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.” While that is straightforward, it is also easy to …
Category Archives: Missions
Relief or Development
There are really two basic approaches to poverty alleviation. First is relief. Fikkert and Corbett define relief as the “urgent and temporary provision of emergency aid to reduce immediate suffering from a natural or man-made crisis. The key feature of relief is a provider-receiver dynamic in which the provider gives assistance-often material-to the receiver, who …
Crisis or Chronic Situation
An important aspect of creating a frame for the conversation is creating a timeframe. Creating a goal with a specific timeframe often jolts people into focused action. This works with both chronic and crisis situations, but the approach can be different and in mission work or poverty alleviation it must be different to not be …
Poverty as Broken Relationships
As Director of Missions and Outreach for my church, I spend a good deal of time thinking about poverty and poverty alleviation work, which is ultimately the core of all mission activity. Poverty can be defined as broken relationships. Broken relationships with God, self, others, and creation look different for each of us, but we …
KATHY PIERBURG 