When Helping Hurts: The Small Group Experience: An Online Video-Based Study on Alleviating Poverty

Good intentions are not enough.

When Helping Hurts offers a different framework for thinking about poverty and its alleviation. Rather than simply defining it 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. Online videos included.

Join together as a class or small group to explore how to help the poor without hurting them.

The Small Group Experience, an ideal training resource for small groups, Sunday school classes, and parachurch and nonprofit ministries, utilizes free online video lessons to unpack the basic principles of poverty alleviation in an accessible way. Filmed in the U.S. and abroad, each of the six lessons includes discussion questions, application exercises, and materials for further learning. Join the many ministries and churches that are already implementing these ideas, transforming their culture of poverty alleviation, and moving toward helping the poor without hurting them.

• Practicing the King's Economy: Honoring Jesus in How We Work, Earn, Spend, Save, and Give
• Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions: Leader's Guide
• Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help, And How to Reverse It
• Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn't the American Dream
• A Field Guide to Becoming Whole: Principles for Poverty Alleviation Ministries
• Charity Detox: What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results
• Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence: A Practical Guide to Walking with Low-Income People
• Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions: Participant's Guide
• When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself