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The Widespread Impact of Chalmers and ABCD Principles

By The Chalmers Center | July 26, 2022

One of Angie’s primary takeaways from When Helping Hurts was the concept of Asset-Based Community Development. For the first time, they started to look for the assets in their community before looking for what was missing.

Faithful Presence: Why “Hanging Out” Is Vital to Long-Term Development

By The Chalmers Center | July 12, 2022

Adapted from When Helping Hurts, 75-79. Defining poverty alleviation as the reconciliation of people’s four key relationships with God, self, others, and creation shapes the methods our churches or ministries should use to achieve that goal, with major implications for how we choose, design, implement, and evaluate our efforts. Because every one of us is…

Short-Term Missions that Avoid Long-Term Harm—Part 1

By The Chalmers Center | May 10, 2022

Adapted from Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions: Leaders’ Guide, 29-31. Much international travel, particularly to and from countries with limited healthcare infrastructure, has been on hold for the past 2 years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As short-term trips begin to become a possibility again, it’s important to remember some best practices for short-term…

Skin in the Game

By The Chalmers Center | May 4, 2022

Adapted from A Field Guide to Becoming Whole, 113-115. One of the most challenging elements of any poverty alleviation effort is identifying people who are truly ready to change. If the goal of poverty alleviation is spirit-led transformation—seeing people restored to who God created them to be—it’s important for us to recognize that sustainable, long-term…

A Long Walk in the Same Direction

By The Chalmers Center | April 25, 2022

Adapted from A Field Guide to Becoming Whole, 107-112. When followers of Jesus describe our relationship with God, we often use the language of a “walk with God” or “Christian walk.” That’s because spiritual growth is not a sudden jolt into greater maturity. Instead, it’s the patient outworking of the Spirit of God in our…

The Finish Line Podcast When Helping Hurts in How We Give

Helping Without Hurting in Financial Partnership

By The Chalmers Center | April 19, 2022

The Chalmers Center’s Founder and President Brian Fikkert was recently interviewed on the Finish Line Podcast on the topic “When Helping Hurts in How We Give.” The Conversation covered many themes from When Helping Hurts and Becoming Whole—including understanding when to apply relief, rehabilitation, and development in poverty alleviation as well as how to flip…

The Art of Conversation in Poverty Alleviation

By The Chalmers Center | April 5, 2022

Listening is different from simply hearing. We can all think of times when we heard someone tell us something, but because we weren’t listening, we didn’t really process what the speaker was saying in such a way that we were able to respond well or act on it.

Discovering Care for Community Partnership

By The Chalmers Center | March 29, 2022

Often, doing the work of finding out what people care about is “success” in and of itself, because it demonstrates commitment to people and places and focuses on mobilizing existing resources rather than bringing in just one more outside program.

Listening and Learning

By The Chalmers Center | March 21, 2022

When you prioritize listening to people you hope to serve, you’ll discover that there is a lot going on in every community already. You’ll see that God really is at work, and people really do have good ideas of what they want for their families and their future.

Audio: Brian Fikkert Plenary Talk at ETS

By The Chalmers Center | March 8, 2022

On November 18, 2021, the Chalmers Center’s Founder and President Brian Fikkert was invited to deliver a plenary address at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Fort Worth, Texas. His talk was recorded and is now made available here.

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Video: Participation Is Development

By The Chalmers Center | October 18, 2021

Getting everyone involved in a ministry initiative isn’t just a means to sustainability, but the heart of healthy, transformational development. Researchers and practitioners have found that meaningful inclusion of materially poor people in the selection, design, implementation, and evaluation of any poverty alleviation effort increases the likelihood of its success. Unfortunately, we often pursue approaches…

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The Widespread Impact of Chalmers and ABCD Principles

Faithful Presence: Why “Hanging Out” Is Vital to Long-Term Development

Short-Term Missions that Avoid Long-Term Harm—Part 1

Skin in the Game

A Long Walk in the Same Direction

Helping Without Hurting in Financial Partnership

The Art of Conversation in Poverty Alleviation

Discovering Care for Community Partnership

Listening and Learning

Audio: Brian Fikkert Plenary Talk at ETS

Video: Participation Is Development