From Band-Aid healing to holistic healing, empowering the homeless for direction and quality living, 1999
Hubbard, Clinton
1999-04-01
1990-1999
This ministry project is intended to be a conduit by which the Saint Paul United Methodist Church in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, empowers three to five homeless persons who visit Saint Paul's Community Kitchen Ministry to make the transition from dependency to self-sufficiency. Individuals who participate in this ministry project must have a desire to transform their economic status beyond receiving temporary band-aid assistance to acquiring long-term comprehensive remedies for the wounds they are inflicted with as a result of living in poverty. This transition will allow the poor to become meaningful participants in the economy. Since gainful employment is the cure for their poverty wounds, they will be empowered to learn to use their talents and resources to sustain themselves and their families and enjoy a meaningful life. This empowerment process will be implemented through various basic educational, employment, and financial management skills training. The motivation behind this ministry project is the old adage: "You give a man a fish you have fed him for a day, but if you teach him how to fish you have fed him for a lifetime."
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application/pdf
dissertation
Doctor of Ministry (DMin)
Interdenominational Theological Center
Georgia--Atlanta
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/itc.td:1999_hubbard_clinton
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
