CAPS July Update

CAPS GOOD NEWS REPORT Have you ever witnessed or counseled someone who was so affected they almost immediately read Scripture to you? This happened to Deandra last week as she was speaking at length with a gentleman who came in seeking help with...
Relational Discipleship, Part 2

Relational Discipleship, Part 2

Welcome back to our blog posts on Discipleship! We hope that you gleaned Biblical knowledge from “Discipleship Part 1.” The focus of this post will be community. As a result of sin, each human being has poverty of the soul. Each one longs to be restored to perfect...
Relational Discipleship, Part 1

Relational Discipleship, Part 1

In previous posts, we have discussed poverty and relief. When Helping Hurts states, “Poverty reaches into more of humanity than the material. There is a poverty of soul and spirit that also needs ministry.” The ministry of CAPS delights in seeing our clients find...
How to Avoid Paternalism

How to Avoid Paternalism

In our discussions of relief and rehabilitation, we need to also discuss how we can avoid paternalism. Paternalism is, in essence, doing things for people that they can do for themselves. We should avoid it like the plague. As our resource puts it: “Avoid Paternalism....
“Repairers of the Breach”

“Repairers of the Breach”

Continuing on our theme of poverty alleviation through relief, rehabilitation and development, consider this excerpt from Corbett and Fikkert’s When Helping Hurts: “Once relief efforts have stopped the bleeding, it is time to move quickly into rehabilitation, working...
What is a “Coalition Against Poverty?”

What is a “Coalition Against Poverty?”

In 2012 a group of churches in the city of Suffolk formed an alliance–a coalition against poverty–to more effectively provide immediate financial assistance to people in our city experiencing a financial crisis. Since that time, through the generous...