I just gave up my current read for a book about poverty. Ruby Payne wrote the book a framework for understanding poverty. Truthfully I have been meaning to read this book for several years. Its only now that I laid my hands on it. My head is spinning with the implications that this has on my life as a teacher, minster, follow of jesus, neighbor...
Has anyone read this?
Here is the question that is spinning around my head tonight:
Most church people who start a program or outreach come from middle class cultures, How effective has that been at reaching people who live in poverty? Why do we continue to try to fit people into our models of thinking and behaving? When it doesn't work out how we thought it would do we try something different or just the same thing yet again?
A penny for your thoughts...
About Me
- sarah
- I like to sleep in but can't really remember the last time I did. I like scrapbooking, reading, playing soccer. I have four darling kids, many of whom keep me up at night. I wish I liked vegetables more than junk food. If you need another player for a board game, I'm your gal.
2 comments:
interesting, I think this also can apply to missionaries. Everyone starts off with their own frame of reference because that is what they know and were taught from birth. it is difficult to look at things from a different perspective, even when you think you know, you really can't unless you were brought up under those circumstances. There is something to be said about people getting out of their enviroment only to return to positivly impact it.
This is why we must have a missionary mentality. Missionaries move to a place where people are much different from them, they spend time learning about their language and culture, and create ministries that will hopefully be effective in that setting. However, we sit in our big Church grotto's separated from everyone around us and we think up stuff to do that sounds good to us and then wonder why no one in the community liked it. hmm...?
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