Description
How do we create real human change that lasts? Imagine you’re a relief worker who has invested 25 years of your life rebuilding an impoverished community. You’ve seen progress. So you leave to help another community. Success, right? But fast forward 10 years, and the community is the same as it was before you came. Why does this happen? Why does it almost always happen? Whether you’re a full-time relief worker in a remote village far away or you volunteer once a week here at home, you need this book. In Becoming Whole, Brian Fikkerts and Kelly M. Kapic look at the true source of poverty and uncover the surprising prerequisites for lasting change. Exposing the ways our misconceptions of change and poverty have driven us to export harmful narratives all around the world, they invite us into a new way of thinking about poverty alleviation strategies, ourselves and the world—a way of thinking that is driven by the kingdom of God. Read the case studies and data on how enduring change begins with changed hearts and discover why God’s design for change is the only one that works.