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Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence: A Practical Guide to Walking with Low-Income People is unavailable, but you can change that!

When a low-income person asks your church for help, what do you do next? God is extraordinarily generous, and our churches should be, too. Because poverty is complex, however, helping low-income people often requires going beyond meeting their material needs to holistically addressing the roots of their poverty.  But on a practical level, how do you move forward in walking with someone who...

One word of caution: do not visit the person’s home alone. Take at least one other person with you in order to avoid the appearance of a compromising situation, and reduce the exposure of the church member to any harm. One of the greatest tools in encouraging people to follow through in the change process is simply to remind them of their action steps. For many people, life is busy and things get overlooked. And as discussed in chapter 2, avoidance behavior can be a deeply ingrained pattern of behavior
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