Poverty

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...