by DoebankDesigns | Dec 27, 2021 | News
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...
by DoebankDesigns | Dec 21, 2021 | News
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...
by DoebankDesigns | Dec 14, 2021 | News
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....
by DoebankDesigns | Dec 7, 2021 | News
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...
by DoebankDesigns | Nov 30, 2021 | News
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...
by DoebankDesigns | Mar 20, 2020 | News
March 16, 2020 Fellow CAPS members, I wanted to provide you with a brief update since we will not be meeting tonight. Our executive team has been working diligently over the past several days to determine how we can best continue our CAPS mission while aligning as...
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