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When Helping Hurts

Every Christian wants to know how to help poverty-stricken people around the world. As believers, our questions run deeper than who to donate to or how to choose a charity. We don’t just want to send money—we want to roll up our sleeves, get our hands dirty, and really make a difference. But in our genuine desire to do frontline ministry, does our helping sometimes do more harm than good?

Dr. Brian Fikkert, a Yale-educated professor of economics and community development, is joined by theologian Dr. Kelly Kapic and poverty relief expert Steve Corbett in these books that have revolutionized the Christian understanding of how to help the poor. The authors combine a deep knowledge of the Bible’s teaching on poverty with real-world expertise on the complex dynamics that produce it. Learn from their insights so the next time your heart is telling you to do good, your hands will know just what is needed to bless “the least of these.” 

A Field Guide to Becoming Whole

A Field Guide to Becoming Whole

Offers 20 principles you can use to design or redesign a poverty alleviation ministry.
Paperback $14.99
Becoming Whole

Becoming Whole

Shows why poverty alleviation efforts fail and reveals that the secret to lasting change is in the human heart
Paperback $15.99
When Helping Hurts: The Small Group Experience

When Helping Hurts: The Small Group Experience

Six lessons on how to relate to God, man, creation, and self in poverty alleviation.
Paperback $11.99
Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence

Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence

A guide for church leaders and laypeople who work with those seeking financial assistance.
Paperback $14.99
Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions Leader's Guide

Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions Leader's Guide

Provides tools, resources, and strategies for preparing short-term mission teams.
Paperback $15.99
Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions

Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions

Ideal short-term mission team training resource that offers principles for best practices.
Paperback $12.99
When Helping Hurts

When Helping Hurts

Concepts, principles, and applications to help you help others in the best way possible.
Paperback $16.99