Church & Community Mobilization – Feeding the Five Thousand
Bible Study No. 5
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Part 5: Understanding Poverty How you can help combat poverty? Poverty is intricately linked to the social and systemic consequences of broken relationships between God, people and wider creation. We see that poverty comes from a distorted understanding of self, which affects how we interact with other people, with wider creation and with God. God
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Part 5: Understanding Poverty How you can help combat poverty? Poverty is intricately linked to the social and systemic consequences of broken relationships between God, people and wider creation. We see that poverty comes from a distorted understanding of self, which affects how we interact with other people, with wider creation and with God. God
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Part 5: Understanding Poverty How you can help combat poverty? Poverty is intricately linked to the social and systemic consequences of broken relationships between God, people and wider Creation. We see that poverty comes from a distorted understanding of self, which affects how we interact with everything around us. God is working to redeem and
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Part 4: Understanding Poverty How do we help tackle poverty? Our specific contribution. Tearfund’s calling is to follow Jesus where the need is greatest, and our expertise is in international development, humanitarian aid and advocacy. We also see part of our role as enabling the church to live out its calling to help release people
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Part 3: Understanding Poverty Who Can Help Tackle Poverty? Who will help us contribute to the change? We believe that individuals, the church, businesses, governments and wider civil society all have important roles to play in bringing about change. Individuals All communities and systems are made up of individuals and are shaped by them (just
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Part 2: Understanding Poverty How you can help combat poverty? Poverty is everywhere we go, but the Bible tells us that God is working to redeem and restore His whole creation. In John 10:10 Jesus says: ‘I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.’ This life of ‘wholeness’ encompasses
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Part 1 – What is Poverty? Understanding Poverty How we understand poverty will determine our response to it. Many, especially in the West, understand poverty as economic poverty. For example, the World Bank defines people in poverty as those living on less than $1.90 a day. Other measures of poverty such as the Multidimensional Poverty
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Introduction Understanding Poverty Adut and her family of seven live in Majokdut, a small village in war-torn South Sudan. The land lays damaged from conflict and famine, and has changed some people’s lives forever. Adut’s husband was left disabled after he was shot during war and could no longer support his family. Adut joined other
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