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Without slaughtering too much this idea, I'd like to put forth my meager knowledge on this topic in this forum.
Community development deals with a wholehearted approach to "social justice." Perhaps the best way for me to put it is "If you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. If you teach him how to fish he'll eat forever." Community development in a missions sense strives not to provide food aid, but to train local indigenous people to cultivate the land they have so that they can "work with their own hands, so they don't have to rely on anyone else." (I Thess 5 I think).
This wholistic approach is not perfect but strives for an ideal. Where the idea was first introduced to me was in the anthology Perspectives on the World Christian Movement.
Has anyone else studied such ideas or been a part of such projects? I think if I understand this forum correctly, this is an integral part.
Community development deals with a wholehearted approach to "social justice." Perhaps the best way for me to put it is "If you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. If you teach him how to fish he'll eat forever." Community development in a missions sense strives not to provide food aid, but to train local indigenous people to cultivate the land they have so that they can "work with their own hands, so they don't have to rely on anyone else." (I Thess 5 I think).
This wholistic approach is not perfect but strives for an ideal. Where the idea was first introduced to me was in the anthology Perspectives on the World Christian Movement.
Has anyone else studied such ideas or been a part of such projects? I think if I understand this forum correctly, this is an integral part.