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Monday, July 10, 2017
How To Talk About Poverty
We all love to be heroes. We love to know we are making a difference. And this, unfortunately, affects the way we talk about poverty.
When we talk about giving or serving to make a difference in the lives of the materially impoverished. We almost always talk about the negative -- starving children, slums, filthy water, lack of education... But we rarely talk about the potential for success and the skills/talents/ability that those people bring and we almost never let them speak for themselves.
Because of our need to be saviors from the first world swooping in to save the poor third-worlders, we speak for them when they are more than capable of speaking for themselves.
We might mean well, but the way we talk about the materially poor gives them very little dignity and robs them of the voice they have.
Craig Greenfield wrote a brief but powerful article about how we talk about poverty.
See the original article here:
How to talk about poverty without being a jerk
When we talk about giving or serving to make a difference in the lives of the materially impoverished. We almost always talk about the negative -- starving children, slums, filthy water, lack of education... But we rarely talk about the potential for success and the skills/talents/ability that those people bring and we almost never let them speak for themselves.
Because of our need to be saviors from the first world swooping in to save the poor third-worlders, we speak for them when they are more than capable of speaking for themselves.
We might mean well, but the way we talk about the materially poor gives them very little dignity and robs them of the voice they have.
Craig Greenfield wrote a brief but powerful article about how we talk about poverty.
See the original article here:
How to talk about poverty without being a jerk
Monday, June 5, 2017
New City Cafe
One of Northridge Church’s 2016 Advent Conspiracy partners
is 441 Ministries, a local Christian non-profit organization whose mission to
“partner with local churches and other like-minded organizations to bring hope,
healing, and holistic development through the proclamation of the gospel of
Jesus Christ to the Beechwood neighborhood of Rochester.”
One of its new, exciting ministries is the development of a
new coffee shop, the New City Café.
441’s vision for the café is “to see our neighborhood flourish, by
promoting economic development and Christ-like business principles with a
youth-centric approach. As an employer,
New City Cafe will focus on professional development, equipping teenagers with
the necessary skills for careers later in life.
As a ministry, New City Cafe will focus on spiritual growth by mentoring
teenagers to develop Christ-like values."
This is real “rubber-meets-the-road" ministry, and the
gospel is central to everything 441 does.
The café is scheduled to have its Grand Opening on Friday
June 9, and you can support their mission by simply stopping in soon to get a
cup of coffee! The café is located at
441 Parsells Avenue, right in the heart of the Beechwood neighborhood. You can
also check out their Facebook page:
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