Resources

Presented by the Ministry with the Poor Operational Team to the 2022 North Annual Conference.

Alabama Possible Barriers to Prosperity Data Sheet Alabama Possible compiles and summarizes their research on an annual basis through the Barriers to Prosperity Data Sheet, which highlights statewide poverty data related to food ...

Focused Community Strategies (FCS) is a 501c(3) organization that empowers neighborhoods to thrive. We invest deeply in one under-resourced Atlanta neighborhood at a time, building upon the neighborhood’s strengths to create a ...

The Lupton Center are transformation consultants—offering tools and services to change the way organizations respond to poverty. In a world discontent with ineffective poverty-alleviation tactics, clients engage the Lupton Center ...

Making Neighborhoods Whole: A Handbook for Christian Community Development by Wayne Gordon & John Perkins   Neighborhood Mapping: How to Make Your Church Invaluable to the Community by Dr. John Fuder   The Working Poor:  ...

The Pan-Methodist Campaign for Children in Poverty seeks to serve and engage with all of God's children, without boundary or border. Two primary Campaign objectives are: (1) to renew and empower the efforts of congregations ...

The focus area on Ministry With the Poor has encouraged United Methodists to rethink how we do ministry: shifting away from ministries “to” people and communities, which often seem transactional, and toward ministries “with” ...