Extreme poverty sets in motion a chain of cause and effect that ends in hopelessness.  It is important to note that the hopelessness that is the defining characteristic of extreme poverty is not a character flaw in the poor.Continue reading→

One billion people live on less than a dollar a day; the human impacts of such extreme poverty are enormous.  For some perspective, consider that the average Christ follower in America lives on a bit more than $100 per day.Continue reading→

Poverty, at it’s very simplest, is a matter of “not having,” either in absolute terms or relative to others.  There are many forms of poverty in our world – economic, relational, cultural, spiritual. Continue reading→

This archive category will contain discussions focusing on the nature and extent of what has been called extreme poverty — that is, the world’s most desperately poor people.  Extreme poverty is often defined as those who live on less than $1.00 per day.  While poverty is present to some degree in every American town or city, most of us never witness the extreme poverty that one billion of earth’s inhabitants live in.  Our discussions here will tell their story.Continue reading→