Redemptive Poverty Work Student Workbook

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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 have been working with Sheri for five years. By all accounts, Sheri is a good woman with a rock-solid faith. She attends church every Sunday that she is not scheduled to work at a hotel as a maid. She brings home just enough money to make ends meet for her and her three children, as their father does not contribute much to their lives. Right now, she is upset because she just found out that one of her sons has been expelled from a private Christian school that you played a key role in getting him admitted to. On one hand, she is embarrassed; on the other, she feels invisible to God because in her opinion the school is over-reacting because of his race and social class. What is your response to her?

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Redemptive PovertyWork

Dr. Alvin Sanders

CONTENT

This lesson, Redemptive Poverty Work , defines the goal of our activity. We’ll explore the three types of poverty work available to us and how our response to the work that Christ has done on the cross should aspire us towards redemption of lives and neighborhoods. Our objectives for this lesson, Redemptive Poverty Work , is to enable you to: • Renew your understanding of the concept of redemption. • Reflect on how your poverty work can be redemptive. • Distinguish redemptive poverty work from other types.

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