Save the Date!

Saturday, June 13, 2015

(And How To Reverse It)

Registration Begins at 8:30 am

Cost: $30




"Giving to those in need what they could be gaining from their own initiative may well be the kindest way to destroy people."




Muskingum Valley Presbytery is excited to present this workshop coming up on Saturday, June 13, 2015!  Bob Lupton has spent over four decades working in inner-city Atlanta and beyond to develop models that are effective and truly serve the poor. Lupton, a trained psychologist, and his wife moved from the suburbs and raised their family living in the inner-city of Atlanta. By observations and by building relationships of trust, Lupton has seen the transformation of people out of poverty and their neighborhoods change from dangerous and blighted to thriving and even successful!

His first-hand experience and writing comes from working with churches, government agencies, entrepreneurs, and volunteers, where seeing that many good intentions can translate into ineffective care or even hard.  He reveals the shockingly toxic effects that modern charity has upon the very people meant to benefit from it. Toxic Charity provides proven new models for charitable groups that want to help -- not sabotage -- those whom they desire to serve. This workshop, based on Lupton's groundbreaking book Toxic Charity, shows us how to start serving needy and impoverished members of our communities in a way that will lead to lasting, real-world change.

Save the date - Saturday, June 13, 2015 - and stay tuned! More details are coming soon!