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Week 1: Worldview
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Shoe Throw Game!
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Worldview Activity
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Situations:
1.Canada is debating passing a law that will allow capital punishment for some crimes. Argue for or against this.
2.The incidence of homelessness and crime has increased in your neighbourhood. How should we respond?
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Debrief
1.How did that activity make you feel?
2.What did your card’s perspective seem
to value most?
3.How do your values differ from the ones
on your card?
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RestorationThe idea that the condition we find the object we are
trying to restore in right now, is not how it was
created to be.
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Genesis 1:26-31God spoke: “Let us make human beings in our image, make them, reflecting our nature. So they can be responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, and, yes, Earth itself, and every animal that moves on the face of Earth.”God created human beings; he created them godlike, reflecting God’s nature. He created them male and female.God blessed them: “Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge! Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth.” Then God said, “I’ve given you every sort of seed-bearing plant on Earth and every kind of fruit-bearing tree, given them to you for food. To all animals and all birds, everything that moves and breathes, I give whatever grows out of the ground for food.” And there it was.
God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good!
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What is Shalom?
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ShalomShalom is understood around the world to mean "peace." "Shalom" is also used to both greet people and to bid them farewell, but it means much more than "peace, hello or goodbye"
Hebrew words go beyond their spoken pronunciation. Each Hebrew word conveys feeling, intent and emotion. Shalom is more than just simply peace; it is a complete peace. It is a feeling of contentment, completeness, wholeness, well being and harmony.
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Small Group Discussion
1.How does the Biblical worldview differ from some of the worldviews presented in the activity?
2.How does justice fit into our Biblical worldview?
3.Keeping how God intended things to be in mind, how has the fall affected our worldview?
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Week 2: The Definition of Poverty
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The Danger of a Single Story
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/5442501
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Foundational Relationships
1.God
2.Ourselves
3.Others
4.Creation
Image??
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Discussion
1.What do we, as humans need?
2.What other forms of poverty are there?
3.What does poverty look like in each of
the 4 relationships?
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Poverty Cards
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“If you ask people who live in low-income countries, they by and large describe their condition in psychological and social terms. While they recognize their material lack, they talk more about things like shame, inferiority, powerlessness, humiliation, fear, hopelessness, depression, social isolation, and voicelessness.”
(Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert, When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor … And Yourself, [Moody Publishers, 2009] p. 53)
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We are all poor.
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Small Group Discussion
1.What kinds of help have you been a part of?
2.What kind of help would address poverty of self?
3.What kind of help address poverty of creation?
4.How does poverty affect me? Where is there brokenness of these 4 relationships in my life?
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Week 3: Neighbour / Other
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If we are all poor, why do the materially poor deserve special attention?
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1 John 3:17
“This is how we’ve come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not just be out for ourselves. If you see some brother or sister in need and have the means to do something about it but turn a cold shoulder and do nothing, what happens to God’s love? It disappears. And you made it disappear.”
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Activity
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There is no “other”, there is just us.
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If there is no “other”, and the material poor are just like us, then we are all responsible to help those in need.
How can we respond to material poverty?
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Luke 3:10-15
The crowd asked him, “Then what are we supposed to do?” “If you have two coats, give one away,” he said. “Do the same with your food.” Tax men also came to be baptized and said, “Teacher, what should we do?” He told them, “No more extortion—collect only what is required by law.” Soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” He told them, “No shakedowns, no blackmail—and be content with your rations.”
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Small Group Discussion
1.What does John the Baptist say about
how we treat the materially poor in Lk
3:10-15?
2.How does Jesus expand upon this?
3.See: John 9:1-7; John 4:1-42; Luke
18:31-34; Mark 5:21-43; Matthew 25
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Week 4: Development
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The media often creates an
oversimplified image of poverty as
being purely a lack of something, and
so to address poverty, we send more
of what we think is missing.
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Mutual Transformation and
Empowerment
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If you want to change something, it’s
more effective to focus on what
you’re good at rather than what you
don’t have.
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Activity
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YOU ARE THE BANANA!
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Small Group Discussion
1. Think about the ministries you’ve been involved
in, or missions trips you’ve been a part of; have
they been empowering or disempowering to those
you intended to help?
2. Imagine you are going to Mexico to help a family
who have no home; how would you go about
helping them in an empowering way?
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Week 5: What Now?
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Scavenger Hunt
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Scavenger HuntThe first team to find all the objects wins. You are allowed to skip one item
bobby pin shoe lacephonekeysringearringglasses
looniepenwatchsockhatbus passschool id card
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Luke 4:18-19
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he
has anointed me to proclaim good news to
the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for
the prisoners and recovery of sight for the
blind,
to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the
year of the Lord’s favor.
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Ephesians 2:10
For we are God's handiwork, created in
Christ Jesus to do good works, which God
prepared in advance for us to do.
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We are both “the work” and “the
workers”.
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What can I do?
Micah Bournes:https://vimeo.com/21278729
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Activity
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1.What are you passionate
about?
2.What are you good at?
3.Who do you know?
4.How can you use your skills and
passion to support those who
are already doing good work?
Questions to Ask:
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1. Are you working with or for people?2. Whose idea was this project/movement/work? 3. Have you asked those you are trying to help if this is something
they want/need?4. Are those you are trying to help being empowered by your
presence?5. What will happen to those you are trying to help after you
leave or stop what you are doing? 6. Is this work sustainable? i.e. Will the community continue this
work after you’re gone?7. Are you being transformed in the process?8. Is there a focus on self-reflection and learning?9. Which area of poverty in your life in being addressed by this
experience?
How to Evaluate:
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Good Development: ● works with those it is trying to
benefit ● focuses on what you have rather
than what you lack● asks the opinions of those it will
benefit● invites them to be part of the
solution● requires humility from those trying to
help
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Small Group Discussion
1. Keeping your assets in mind, what can you as a youth do in regards to poverty and injustice?
2. What could you do locally?3. What could you do globally? 4. Who are we and what is our role? 5. What questions would you ask to evaluate
something you’re considering being a part of?6. How do your purchases locally affect our brothers
and sisters on the other side of the world?
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Additional Resources:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
● Danger of a Single Story - https://youtu.be/D9Ihs241zeg
Micah Bournes:
● Who Broke Africa? - https://youtu.be/pP2RNfb3kDw
● Is Justice Worth It? - https://vimeo.com/60349898
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