from gdill

Excellent book that totally transformed my thinking about serving amongst an impoverished people group. I have to admit I was a little apprehensive before reading this book. I thought it was going to be justification about how not to serve the poor. Instead, it was quite the opposite. How to trul...

from Steve777

Excellent book. Asks some very hard questions that need to be answered. I just went through the questions in the chapter on short term missions with the national host of the yearly short term missions trips I lead to Papua, Indonesia, and found they generated very important discussion.

from dmmagic

I was interested in the subject conveyed in the title: when can trying to help people instead cause harm? This book answers that to some extent and gave me a lot to think about. But as someone who isn't interested in being a missionary, starting a micro-finance or loan program, or leading anythin...

from yourotherleft

When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert is a Christian perspective on helping the poor that might well stand to benefit anyone, Christian or otherwise, who has tried to help someone they perceive to be less well-off then themselves. In today's world where the prevailing method of he...

from Steve777

Excellent book. Asks some very hard questions that need to be answered. I just went through the questions in the chapter on short term missions with the national host of the yearly short term missions trips I lead to Papua, Indonesia, and found they generated very important discussion.