Whether you look across your street or across the ocean, it's not hard to recognize that poverty is one of the biggest problems facing our world today. When we see people living in extreme poverty, we know that’s not how God intended things to be. And we know that as Christians we should do something to help. But what? The last thing anyone wants to do is make things worse. So we often stay stuck, unsure of how to take action. We feel overwhelmed by the complexity of poverty and struggle to help in effective, biblical ways. Through resources like the bestselling book When Helping Hurts, the Chalmers Center has helped thousands of...
…churches and ministries around the world discover new ways of thinking about poverty, reimagine their role in the Kingdom of God, and build transformational relationships with people in poverty.
Whether you’re just starting out or have walked alongside people who are poor for years, Chalmers can help you discover a better way to love the poor—and gain the skills and confidence you need to start helping.
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If you’ve been following our work at the Chalmers Center for long, you know that what drives us as an organization is our commitment to equi [ read more ]
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We recently hosted a live webinar to celebrate the launch of our latest resource, Helping Without Hurting in Africa. [ read more ]
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What are people for? How we answer that determines so much about what we think of when we think of material poverty. [ read more ]
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Every issue involving human beings and their intertwined relationships is vastly more complex than we'd like it to be. [ read more ]
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The burning question now is not so much whether we can ever get back to “normal,” but rather “What do we do next? How can we begin moving again?” [ read more ]
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How does a father struggling not to lose custody of his children become a key staff member in a Christian ministry? [ read more ]
