Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition

LESSON 4 | RHYTHMS OF LIFE AND POVERTY WORK / 63

Summarize each book reading with no more than a paragraph or two per summary. In this summary, please give your best understanding of what you think was the main point in the reading. Do not be overly concerned about giving detail; simply write out what you consider to be the main point discussed in that chapter of the book. Use the Reading Completion form. Submit a Reading Completion Sheet for readings for each book (if you are completing this course in World Impact U, use the “Submit Assignments” green bar at the top of any page in your Redemptive Poverty Work course in WIU). Case Study You do poverty work in an urban neighborhood and run into a colleague at the corner store. He asks if you have some time to spare to talk. After walking to his office and starting to talk, it is apparent he is angry and frustrated. He is overwhelmed by the challenges he faces daily. The challenges don’t shock you because you face the same ones. However, what does shock you is his tone and what he is saying. He is very cynical about the people in the neighborhood and the organizations set up to help them, including the local church he belongs to which he has stopped attending. His complaints revolve around not being appreciated for the sacrifices he has made and how physically tired he is. What would you tell him?

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Rhythms of Life and Poverty Work

R edemp t i v e P ov e rt y W ork

Dr. Alvin Sanders

CONTENT

Rhythms of Life and Poverty Work lays out the spirituality of the Great Tradition of the Church. World Impact invites you to implement these practices in your life to act as a countermeasure to toxic poverty work, as well as a catalyst to grow in your faith. Our objectives for this lesson, Redemptive Poverty Work , is to enable you to: • Renew your mind concerning effective spirituality. • Reflect on how the interconnectedness between spiritual practices and poverty work. • Make basic commitments to the spiritual practices of the Great Tradition of the Church.

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