Source: Moody Publishers
When Helping Hurts: The Small Group Experience, by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert. Moody Publishers, 2014. 96 pages (plus online videos).
Fans of Corbett and Fikkert’s popular book on poverty alleviation, When Helping Hurts, will be glad to know that the publisher has creating a stand-alone resource designed to introduce the key ideas in an accessible and interactive way.
The new study, composed of six lessons, is designed to go with a (free) series of professional-quality online videos.
Rather than defining poverty as a lack of material things, the book addresses the roots of the issue: broken relationships with God, self, others, and the rest of creation.
» Purchase this resource from Amazon (or elsewhere) for US$8.85 (paperback) or US$6.79 (Kindle edition). Looks like Moody will soon be publishing another resource which may be helpful for training: Helping Without Hurting in Short-term Missions.
We used this resource with our small group, and it went quite well. The on-field portions of the video were the more effective aspect, in my opinion.
Thanks for the input, Chuck! We reviewed this without having a chance to really study or use it. Your endorsement is helpful!