Next week I will be posting a review of "When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without hurting the Poor and Yourself," which I believe to be one of the most significant books on poverty and social justice written in the past decade. It is a true gem for the church and I wholeheartedly recommend it for Church mission leaders, deacons and deaconesses, pastor and elders, non-profit leaders, and the lay person who desire to redemptively help the poor and see chronic poverty broken.
As an arm of Urban Transformation Ministries, UTM Sentiments is a blogger site dedicated to theological and socio-cultural reflection of Urban Mission and Ministry. Given that the evangelical church is under-prepared to take on the challenge of mission within an urban context, I created a forum to discuss issues that I believe are significant to urban ministry.