Teach a Man to Fish: Engaging the Local Church to Create Sustainable, Transformational Missions
Ebook
You’ve probably heard the old saying, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”
The same basic principle applies to missions work. Too many churches and other missions organizations over-emphasize Relief Aid—no-strings-attached, handouts of vital supplies given in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. While necessary and lifesaving, Relief Aid is only a temporary fix. Once the funds dry up and the ground team leaves, the impoverished community is often no better off than they were before.
In Teach a Man to Fish, the authors illustrate the benefits of “wholistic transformational development,” where—through engagement with the local church— the community is empowered to identify and carry out long-term sustainable solutions to meet its own needs. A few of the steps that “wholistic transformational development” includes are:
- Give dignity to “the least of these”
- Address the root causes of poverty to provide solutions for the affected
- Help the vulnerable to become empowered in their own communities
Filled with real-life stories from the authors’ own experiences, Teach a Man to Fish provides churches and missions organizations with a blueprint for helping people help themselves in order to create lasting change and long-term sustainability and independence.
- Title: Teach a Man to Fish: Engaging the Local Church to Create Sustainable, Transformational Missions
- Authors: Steve Saint, Florence Muindi MPH, Charlie Vittitow DMD AAACD, Joseph Sindorf, Kathleen Sindorf
- Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781496490087, 9781496490063, 1496490061, 1496490088
- Resource ID: LLS:9781496490087
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-17T07:35:11Z