Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence: A Practical Guide to Walking with Low-Income People

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 approaches your church for financial help?

From the authors of When Helping Hurts comes Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence, a guidebook for church staff, deacons, or volunteers who work with low-income people.

Short and to the point, this tool provides foundational principles for poverty alleviation and then addresses practical matters, like:

• How to structure and focus your benevolence work
• How to respond to immediate needs while pursuing long-term solutions
• How to mobilize your church to walk with low-income people

With practical stories, forms, and tools for churches to use, Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence is an all-in-one guide for church leaders and laypeople who want to help the poor in ways that lead to lasting change.

• Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help, And How to Reverse It
• Charity Detox: What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results
• Practicing the King's Economy: Honoring Jesus in How We Work, Earn, Spend, Save, and Give
• Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn't the American Dream
• Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions: Participant's Guide
• When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself
• When Helping Hurts: The Small Group Experience: An Online Video-Based Study on Alleviating Poverty
• Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions: Leader's Guide
• A Field Guide to Becoming Whole: Principles for Poverty Alleviation Ministries
• Ministries of Mercy, Third Edition: The Call of the Jericho Road