PERSPECTIVES SESSION 12 Christian Community Development Graham Eileen

PERSPECTIVES SESSION 12 Christian Community Development Graham & Eileen Hodgetts

SEGMENT ONE A review of World Need

Challenge Verses John 12: 8 You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me. Deuteronomy 15: 11 There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land.

WHAT IS POVERTY? Generally we measure poverty as living on less than $1. 25 per Day Here’s what that looks like.

% of people living on less than $1. 25 per day

HOW POVERTY IS MEASURED How does the World Bank set its standard of poverty z http: //web. worldbank. org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/ TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/0, , menu. PK: 336998~page PK: 149018~pi. PK: 149093~the. Site. PK: 336992, 00. html

• POVERTY When the level of income is insufficient to obtain the goods necessary to support a quality of life.

To maintain life at the simple “I am alive and not dead ” level, requires LEVEL 1 BREATHING FOOD WATER SLEEP HOMEOSTASIS In a disaster situation, this might be all that a person can achieve: Most of the people who live in daily and generational poverty have reached the next step LEVEL 2 SECURITY OF BODY INCOME GENERATION COMMUNITY REPRODUCTION SOME EDUCATION PERSONAL PROPERTY

SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION What would be a missionary’s purpose and presentation at: Level 1? Level 2? Does Geography make a difference ?

LIST OF MOST GENEROUS COUNTRIES PER CAPITA 1 LUXEMBOURG $490. 59 2 DENMARK $389. 5 3 NORWAY $302. 51 4 NETHERLANDS $241. 39 5 SWEDEN $188. 24 6 UNITED KINGDOM $176. 06 18 UNITED STATES $22. 91

Africa alone receives more than $50 billion in foreign aid every year

DISCUSSION • Should we give more money? • If not, why not? • What do we hope to achieve by giving money?

CLIMBING OUT OF POVERTY Different people need different things to bring them out of poverty, but most of the things cannot be purchased with money.

BARRIERS TO GROWTH FRIENDSHIP, FAMILY, SEXUAL FIDELITY, SELF-ESTEEM, CONFIDENCE, RESPECT OF OTHERS, RESPECT BY OTHERS Ignorance, Disease, Apathy, Dishonesty and Dependency. SECURITY OF BODY INCOME GENERATION SOME EDUCATION COMMUNITY REPRODUCTION PERSONAL PROPERTY BREATHING FOOD WATER SLEEP HOMEOSTASIS

• Class Discussion: Which of these problems should be fixed first? • Ignorance, Disease, Apathy, Dishonesty , and Dependency. • 7 minutes

POVERTY IN ACTION PERAGIA’S BABY HOME

TEN MINUTE BREAK WHOOPEE!!!

WELCOME BACK SEGMENT TWO HOW SHOULD WE HELP THE POOR?

Any questions so far?

CHALLENGE VERSE 1 John 1: 17, 18 If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

NOW MORE THAN EVER… The poor have no reserves to allow them to weather the global economic crisis. .

• Video of world food prices FOOD PRICES ARE RISING

The video we saw suggests that we need to take action in every area, especially: Relief Work Political Action Strategic Development SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION: Share you experiences in these areas. How would you become involved?

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT • HELPING THE POOR TO SUPPLY THEIR OWN NEEDS • THE LOVE OF CHRIST DEMONSTRATED THROUGH US • EARNING THE TRUST OF THE COMMUNITY • OPPORTUNITIES TO OFFER THE GIFT OF SALVATION • CAN INVOLVE SHORT TERM AND LONG TERM MISSIONARIES

BEFORE YOU BEGIN… 1. GET TO KNOW THE COMMUNITY 2. RECOGNIZE, ACCEPT, AND WORK WITH THE EFFECTS OF POVERTY

SOME OF THE EFFECTS OF POVERTY IGNORANCE NO ACCESS TO ACCURATE INFORMATION DISEASE PHYSICAL WEAKNESS, ACCEPT AND EXPECT LOSS OF CHILDREN, NO EXPECTATION OF A GOOD MEDICAL OUTCOME APATHY WHAT’S THE POINT? NOTHING WILL GET BETTER. DISHONESTY I WILL SAY OR DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET WHAT I NEED TODAY, EVEN IF IT BELONGS TO SOMEONE ELSE. DEPENDENCY IT’S NOT UP TO ME, IT’S UP TO THE GOVERNMENT OR A FOREIGN DONOR.

CLASS DISCUSSION • How do we apply gospel teaching to affect and overcome these attitudes?

Video of Cambodian Development

SESSION 3 ANY QUESTIONS?

CHALLENGE VERSE MATTHEW 5: 11 “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.

DO MISSIONARIES DESTROY CULTURE?

ABSOLUTELY

CHRISTIANITY CARRIED BY THE APOSTLES, IS THE BASIS FOR MOST EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN CIVILIZATION, HUMAN RIGHTS, GOVERNMENT AND LAW

MANY OF THE FAMOUS VICTORIAN MISSIONARIES WERE NOT, IN FACT MISSIONARIES. THEY WERE EXPLORERS AND WERE NOT SENSITIVE TO THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE THEY TRIED TO CONVERT ALONG THE WAY. THEY BELIEVED THAT EUROPEAN CHRISTIANITY AND CULTURE WAS GOD’S ONLY PLAN FOR EVERY NATION.

SOME RANDOM NEGATIVE COMMENTS Missionaries do good things. They feed the poor, they help build houses and schools. They give away clothing and money to the needy.

SOME RANDOM NEGATIVE COMMENTS…. cntd This makes them no different from the Red Cross. What makes them more insidious is their horrific indoctrination of the masses. They take advantage of the lack of education and poverty of the people they are helping.

SOME RANDOM NEGATIVE COMMENTS…. cntd The missionaries’ primary objective is to use works in order to indoctrinate the people. They believe they have a right to fly to other countries and tell people how they should be living.

SOME RANDOM NEGATIVE COMMENTS…. cntd What bothers me the most is that these people come back to their church and feel good about what they’re doing while the children that really needed help are still starving.

SOME RANDOM NEGATIVE COMMENTS…. cntd Why must there be strings attached? Why can’t these people just travel to Africa and help the needy out of the goodness of their heart?

SOME RANDOM NEGATIVE COMMENTS…. cntd They are really just nosey, judgmental tourists !!

CLASS DISCUSSION • Do you find any truth in this? • Does it matter what other people think • If so, how could you change their impression ?

GOOD NEWS A successful community development?

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